THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF THREE DIFFERENT STRAWBALE BUILDINGS AT THE KERKENES ECO-CENTER

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2013-01-01

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Elias Özkan, Soofia Tahira

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By and large, straw is not considered to be a building material, yet in comparison with traditional materials, building with straw bales is definitely more energy-efficient, eco-friendly, and low-cost; qualities that are desirable in sustainable buildings. This paper presents information on three different straw bales buildings at the Kerkenes Eco-Center, which is located in the village of Sahmuratli in central Anatolia, Turkey. The first of these was constructed with load-bearing straw bale walls; the second with straw bales as infill in a timber-frame structure; while the third utilized straw bales in combination with Autoclave Aerated Concrete (AAC) blocks. This last was a hybrid wall construction that has been tried for the first time to take advantage of the thermal-insulation property of straw combined with the humidity-regulating property of mud plaster inside and the weather-resistance property of AAC outside. These three buildings are being monitored for their temperature and humidity variances with the help of data loggers; this data is also presented herein.

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Geography, Planning and Development, General Environmental Science, Strawbale building, Eco-center, Innovative wall, Thermal comfort, Greenhouse

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/43738

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JOURNAL OF GREEN BUILDING

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https://doi.org/10.3992/jgb.8.4.110

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Department of Architecture, Article

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S. T. Elias Özkan, “THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF THREE DIFFERENT STRAWBALE BUILDINGS AT THE KERKENES ECO-CENTER,” JOURNAL OF GREEN BUILDING, pp. 110–126, 2013, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/43738.