The EcoNest Home: Designing and Building a light straw clay House

By Paula Baker-Laporte and Robert Laporte

Each EcoNest home and workplace combines breathtaking beauty, health, and ecology while training builders in the lost art and craft of natural building in its production

A companion to the first EcoNest book ( Econest: Creating Sustainable Sanctuaries of Clay,Straw and Timber ) published in 2005, which offered the “why-to”; this second book offers the "how-to”

The Econest Home offers step-by-step explanations, drawings and photos of an EcoNest from the site selection to the planning phases and then through construction from foundation to finishes

The Econest Home explains the Building Biology principles of health and ecology and how they are applied in the design and construction of EcoNest homes

There are only a handful of books that show the principles of Building Biology and how they are applied to real buildings, and this is the first one to date originating in North America

Robert Laporte is the pioneer and leading proponent of light straw clay construction in North America since 1991, and has trained hundreds of professional builders and aspiring owner-builders

Paula is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a certified Building Biologist and an instructor for the Institute of Bau-biologie and Ecology

• Language: English
• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Release date: Jul 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781550925685

Paula Baker-Laporte

Paula Baker-Laporte is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and is considered one of the leading proponents of healthy building in North America. She is the author of Prescriptions for a Healthy House and the co-author of Econest: Creating Sustainable Sanctuaries of Clay, Straw and Timber.