StrawBrick - an Organic Brick Made of Straw

 - Katharina Elert

In the StrohGold research project, a team from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is developing a brick made from highly compacted straw achieving much greater compressive strengths than conventional straw bale construction.

StrawBrick - an Organic Brick Made of Straw
The team tested different recipes for the bricks on specimens. The parameters varied included water content, binder type and the processing of the stalks. © Julian Pracht