Houses on organic farms in north-east Mazovia: Existing material and construction solutions

Abstract

The study presents building materials or systems which are described in the literature and are regarded as ecological, results of the investigations on the material and construction solutions in dwelling houses of selected organic farms in north-east Mazovia and prospecting for the influence of organic farming on dwelling houses. To prepare the paper, the literature on ecological building construction and ecological farming was used, visits at farms were made (collection of documentation and conversations with own-ers) and statistical data on the ecological farms in the Ostroleka and Makow counties were analysed. The investigations showed that there are no connections between the ecological farming and dwelling houses existing on these farms. The material and construc-tion solutions applied there can be considered as non-ecological, which has been shown on the basis of the method by Dabkowski (2002b). It has been also noticed that farm owners did not benefit from the rich material heritage (i.a. related to folk architecture) of the described region when building residential houses on their farms.