Caroline Guilhot-Gaudeffroy is an architect specializing in eco-construction in Beaulieu-lès-Loches, her structure is called “Round Like a Square” and her actions are in resonance with her designs since she built her house with straw insulation with raw earth coatings in short, only natural, local materials with very low environmental impact and extremely interesting insulating properties given the ever-rising prices of energy and climate change.
The construction of a straw house requires special know-how to make the most of it, it is not enough to replace rock wool with straw! It is a question of studying all the parameters of the house and taking advantage of its geographical location, its orientation by allowing the sun to enter and warm up the winter while preventing it from being too direct in the summer. . The openings must therefore be particularly well thought out. For heating, a wood stove is sufficient for the 110 m2;
What is striking when you enter such a house is the comfort, the softness that you feel in winter as in summer. and even the air is pleasant to breathe! No chance in such a house of seeing mold develop because raw earth coatings, which are also very ecological, have unparalleled inertia. an ability to regulate temperature and humidity, absorb odors and sound, which makes houses insulated in this way particularly healthy and pleasant to live in.
– Caroline Guilhot-Gaudeffroy
Caroline Guilhot-Gaudeffroy has built other buildings of this type, such as social housing in Lussault-sur-Loire. We can only envy the comfort of life of the inhabitants and their heating bills! Indeed, With this type of design, Caroline heats her entire 110 square meter house with only… 2 cubic meters of wood per year!