%0 Journal Article
%T Natural material in sustainable construction with regards to “straw bale”
	technology – selected issues
%A Bucka, Agnieszka
%J Technical Transactions
%V 2016
%R 10.4467/2353737XCT.16.054.5403
%N Civil Engineering Issue 1-B (6) 2016
%P 3-10
%K natural architecture, construction of straw, straw bale, natural construction materials, traditional construction materials, straw, ecological houses, energy efficiency, sustainable construction, bio-construction
%@ 0011-4561
%D 2016
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/czasopismo-techniczne/article/natural-material-in-sustainable-construction-with-regards-to-straw-bale-technology-selected-issues
%X 
	The article raises issues of natural architecture, presenting the advantages of ecological construction and demands of sustainable development. It presents an example of the use of natural material (straw) to erect buildings in the straw bale technology. On the basis of the presentation of the building it is shown that future bio-construction may be based on simple, natural and environment-friendly materials [2]. It underlines the benefits and the need to develop natural construction for the good of a mankind and the environment, with regards to the aspect of energy efficiency – both in the process of building and operation. It emphasizes that nowadays the natural architecture gives more and more possibilities of building passive objects or even zero-energy ones. The idea of the publication is also to sensitize the audience to the fact of the use of straw to create objects representing contemporary polemic against the traditional solutions of form and architectural building blocks.