Advantages
SOCIAL ADVANTAGES:
- Clay Build Technique building will help create affordable housing for people from all social groups and help rural areas develop in sustainable way.
- By promoting active participation in the building of the house costs are greatly reduced – and waste is minimized.
- This technique will allow people to build not only houses but also other affordable buildings such as service points (shops), accommodation for tourists in rural areas i.e. summer houses and other publicly accessible buildings.
Photo by Marcin Bas
ECOLOGICAL ADVANTAGES:
- A Natural House is Ecologically friendly.
- Using only natural materials that are profusely present in nature (Clay, Straw, Sand, Stone) or easily regenerating (Wood)
- Clay Build Technique uses only 15% of the energy (in comparison to
currently used building technologies) - By avoiding kilning the bricks Clay Build Technique do not contaminate the atmosphere
- This technique does not create any production waste
HEALTH ADVANTAGES:
Clay is a natural material it is:
- Anti-allergenic
- Anti-bacterial
- Increases your skin’s natural protection to harmful micro organisms
- Prevents your lungs (respiratory tract) from drying out
- Has anti-static qualities which help to reduce the amount of the dust in the air
- Immobilizes harmful substances from the air
- Promotes beneficial air ionization
- Clay and straw construction of the house reduces natural and artificial level of the radiation
- Clay and straw construction protects and prevents from mould which is common in current build technologies
HEALTHY LIFE-STYLE:
Clay and Straw bricks guarantee a comfortable house:
- They are perfect thermal and acoustic isolation materials
- They make your house ‘cold’ during summer and ‘hot’ during winter
- The walls radiate with natural warmth
- Clay and Straw bricks ‘breathe’, self-activating the level of humidity in the house and create
physical and mental comfort for the inhabitants of the Natural House - A Natural House, built from natural materials will not loose its’ ‘aura’ (Kirilian, Russia)
