Light clay

Though relatively young for a natural building technique, it was adapted from its ancestral precursor, wattle and daub.

This wall system is called light straw clay, which is kind of a goofy name because it's a direct translation from German, uh, leichtlehm, and it's, it's a name for one of the many infill wall systems that they put in those old timber frames.

So if you think of like a storybook house from Germany with the big timbers and the cross pieces, and then there were the just like panels in between the timbers, that was often infilled with something kind of like this.

Um, this is the modernized version.

Uh, but it's really fun to show people because people, when they think of straw construction, like site-built, they think of just baled straw, which has become kind of the most common residential form of straw construction in, in the States.

But light straw clay is another form, uh, where you control the wall thickness.

And so it's really good for, um, working with existing frames or where you don't want a really thick wall.

It's, it's a versatile, uh, technique.