21 years on
Sarah Wigglesworth and her Straw Bale House in London
Sarah Wigglesworth completed the straw bale house where she works and lives in 2001. She didn’t only use straw to isolate the building but also recycled concrete in gabions, stacked sandbags for walls and old railway sleepers as window lintels. After more than 20 years in use, the building needed some refreshing. In the film Sarah Wigglesworth tells us what exactly she did to it and gives a very private insight in how she works and lives in the building she got a lot of credit for.
Read more in Detail 4.2022 and in our databank Detail Inspiration.
Architecture: Sarah Wigglesworth
Photo: © Paul Smoothy
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