Seems like Timber done right is always always gonna be a stand a stand alone system coupled with an enclosure, but not necessarily a second structure.

Finding that balance is a bit of a quandary isn't it, in more ways than one. So tight you need mechanicals to maintain healthy air, vrs so many AEH's you're throwing money through the walls – Wrapping the frame in embedded energy drawn from the local economy, vrs minimizing that greatest of costs, labor, and increasing predictability by going the panel route.

No answer fits all the questions.

I'm recently back from helping a friend in Wisconsin scribe an almost unchanged version of Jacks H&P house, hyper local – Winter cut Tamarack and mixed hardwood (even Elm) braces from just up the road , it will be enclosed in cordwood in a workshop late this coming summer. The paradox lies in my involvement, seems like though I was there to free up an associate so he can come back east and help us restore another bridge you have to add the portion of the jet fuel spent to lob my ample backside across half a continent ?!?

No easy answers.

If I was not so far flung from these folks I'd have experimented with these already – has any body out there worked with strawboard ? Interestingly they call their panels SIPS http://agriboard.com/ http://www.stramit-int.com/

Has anyone experimented with baled corrugated ? Every time I drive past one of the vast acerage yards where it waits to be shipped overseas I wonder about better uses, and giggle at the thought of housing the world in cardboard houses.