SB: Hybrid question

["First Last" <dadelcnu@hotmail.com>]

If any of you feel strongly whether this idea is good or bad, I'd sure 
appreciate reading your thoughts.

The design (from the team I've hired), not yet built (or submitted to local 
planning agency)

1.  Bale walls go up first.
2.  Bale walls get super compressed, height measured.
3.  Vertical notches for load-bearing posts get cut in bales, top to bottom.
4.  Posts, exactly the same height as the super compressed wall, are fit 
into the wall.
5.  Roof trusses are fastened to the posts.

Although this may sound like a hybrid, it's simply a not-load bearing SB 
house.  Matching the height of the compressed wall with the posts gets rid 
of the common problem in non-load bearing SB houses:  filling the gaps at 
the top because the bale wall height is never the same height as the roof 
supports.  I could rip out an entire bale wall on this thing and still keep 
the roof up.

Thanks

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