Earthbag, Superadobe Dome Building Workshop 2017

 

Come and build a complete Earthbag, Superadobe Dome with arched entrance in just 6 days!

• 10-15 May – Earthbag Dome Workshop – Sussex, England – £295
• 25 June – 3 July – Earthbag Dome and Clay Plastering Workshop – Sussex, England – £345

 A 6 day Earthbag  Dome Workshop.    (some call it Superadobe, except we keep our earthbag technology as natural as possible, built using mostly earth and no barbed wire..! cement and barbed wire used ONLY where absolutely necessary.)


10th – 15th May 2017,   or
25 June – 3 July 2017 (including 2 extra days of earth plastering)

Taught by architect and earthbag author Paulina Wojciechowska.
The workshop will be lead by Earth Hands and Houses founder Paulina Wojciechowska, a qualified architect who has over 18 years of experience building with earthbags in communities all around the world. Paulina worked alongside Nader Khalili at Cal-Earth in 1996 and is the author of “Building with Earth”, one of the leading earthbag construction books.

What You Will Learn

The workshop is a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience of all stages of constructing a 2 metre interior diameter earthbag dome with an arched entrance, in a beautiful location in E.Sussex, and will include:
Earthbag Dome Workshop (6 days)

• Theory of earthbag stucture foundations.
• Building an earthbag dome from an existing base.
• Creating earthbag walls using both single bags and earthbag tubes.
• Different techniques using arches and lintels to construct doorways and windows within the earthbag structure.
• Ensuring the structure is stable through the correct use of buttressing and corbelling based upon the nature of the earth used to fill the bags.
• Recognizing the clay found on our land and understanding how to use it for building.
• Preparation and application of the first 2 coats of clay plaster onto an earthbag dome.

Book Your Place

The workshop prices is:
six day Earthbag Dome Workshop:
£345 per person, or £295 if booked by 1st March 2016.
a six day Earthbag Dome Workshop with an option to saty for 2 more days of plastering £385:
Numbers on the workshop will be limited to ensure a good learning experience, and we are expecting the allocated places to fill up before the workshop.
Note that we are running a series of workshops at this time in E. Sussex, a Straw bale as well as the artistry with clay plastering and carving after this Earthbag workshop, as well as Design Your Dream Natural Home before this workshop.

To book your place
email earthhands@gmail.com or
call Paulina on (+44) 7787918184.

About your Workshop Leader

The workshop will be lead by Earth, Hands and Houses founder Paulina Wojciechowska, a qualified architect who has over 18 years of experience building with earthbags in communities all around the world. Paulina worked alongside Nader Khalili at Cal-Earth in 1996 and is the author of “Building with Earth”, one of the leading earthbag construction books. Click here to hear Paulina talk about her experiences.

Food, Location, Accommodation

Vegetarian food will be available at an additional cost of £10/day, payable upon arrival. The food will comprise a self service breakfast, full cooked lunchtime meal, and a light supper.
The workshop will be held on farmland, 1mile outside of the village centre of Forest Row. You may camp on the field for £5/day.
Click here for more details of the camping facilities, maps, travel information and other accommodation available.

Workshop Timing

The earthbag dome workshop will run from 9.30am to 5.30pm on each day. You will be welcome to arrive the day before the workshop and to leave the day afterwards.

But there is more…

This will be more than just an earthbag dome workshop – it will be a wonderful opportunity to enjoy learning and relaxing amongst like minded people, some who may become your friends for life!

Earthbag Homes in Disaster Regions

Click here to read more about why earthbag homes are a great construction method to introduce into the world’s poorer, disaster prone communities.

Straw Bale Workshops 2017

A fun, hands-on workshop where you will get to build and plaster a complete structure made from straw bales…

• 6-14 May – StrawBale and In-depth Clay Plastering, Workshop – Alicante, Spain – 395 / 495€
• 18-23 May – Straw Bale Workshop – Sussex, England – £365
• 6-11 July – StrawBale Workshop – Sussex, England – £365
• 24-30 August – Straw Bale Workshop – Przelomka, Poland – 200€

 6-14 May 2017
StrawBale and In-depth Clay Plastering, Workshop  
in Alicante, Spain.

A six day straw bale and clay plastering workshop
(with an optional extra two days)
Saturday 6th – Friday 12th May 2017 or
Saturday 6th – Sunday 14th May 2017

Set in a beautiful olive grove in the rugged mountains near Tarbena in the Costa Blanca region of Spain.
Presented by experienced natural building teacher Antony Dennis.
This workshop is a wonderful opportunity to gain hands-on experience of building a straw bale structure and plastering a real straw bale building that will be used for visitor accommodation, in the beautiful surroundings of our olive grove set in a lush green valley in the mountains north of Alicante.

What You Will Learn

Hands-on experience of all the stages in straw bale wall construction, and in depth theory and practice of applying a wide range of different clay plasters to a real structure.
On the first six days we will build a straw bale structure and cover it with the first two layers of plaster. Topics covered will be:

• Site planning and building of the foundations for a straw bale structure
• Raising straw bale walls
• How to tie the straw bale walls together
• Making a wall plate and compressing a wall
• Installation of door and window frames
• Managing the use of bales to maintain wall strength
• Recognizing the clay found on our land and understanding how to use it for building
• Preparation and application of the first 2 coats of clay plaster onto the straw bale wall

The final two days will present both the theory and practice of clay plastering in much more depth. Topics will include:

• Preparation and application of the final layer of smooth plaster
• Sculpting with clay plaster
• Methods of protecting clay plaster from the elements
• Application of lime to protect a naturally constructed building.
• Preparation and application of clay paints for a beautiful natural finish.
• A variety of methods using in the creation of different internal wall structures.
• The theory of how clay floors are built.
• The application of the final layer of clay to an existing clay floor.

This straw bale workshop will be mainly hands-on, building a small temporary structure out of straw bales, and applying all the different clay plaster techniques to both this and an existing 4×4 metre building which will be used for visitor accommodation at the olive grove site. Theory lessons will back up the practical skills learned and provide the opportunity for more detailed questions to be answered.

Book Your Place

The price of the two workshop options are:
Six day straw bale and clay plaster workshop:
450€ per person, or a discounted price of 395€ is available if booked by 1st March 2017.
Eight day straw bale and clay plaster workshop
570€ per person, or a discounted price of 495€ is available if booked by 1st March 2017.
Numbers on the workshop will be limited to ensure a good learning experience, and we are expecting the allocated places to fill up before the workshop begins.
To book your place
email antony@la-murta.eu or
call Antony on (+34) 633 012 477.

About your Workshop Leader

The workshop will be lead by Antony Dennis.
Antony presented all Earth, Hands and Houses workshops alongside Paulina for 4 years and owns his own straw bale house on his olive grove in the mountains of Spain, which is the location of this workshop.
Antony has a natural talent for explaining things clearly, a love of natural building and over 25 years of experience taking houses apart and putting them back together, These gifts, along with his ability to hold a caring, openhearted community space make his workshops both an informative and pleasurable experience.

Food, Location, Accommodation

Vegetarian food will be available at an additional cost, payable upon arrival. The food will comprise a self service breakfast, full cooked lunchtime meal, and a light supper.
The workshop will be held in an olive grove, 2km south of the village of Tarbena. You may camp within the olive grove for free.
Click here for more details of the camping facilities, maps, travel information and other accommodation available.
Please note that consumption of alcohol and smoking on the site are not allowed.

Workshop Timing

The workshop will run from 09:00 to 17:00 on each day. If you are  camping, you are welcome to arrive any time on the day before the workshop starts and to depart the day after the workshop ends. There is a rest day on Wednesday 10th May.

But there is more…

This will be more than just a straw bale workshop – it will be a wonderful opportunity to enjoy learning and relaxing amongst like minded people, some who may become your friends for life!
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            The strawbale wall being compressed.

The wall plate that goes around the strawbale wall for compression.

                                            The first layers of plaster

                                        
The strawbale wall being plastered with clay plaster

Yummy Vegan Lunches

Straw bale, Cob, Earthbag, Cordwood, Workshop Courses for 2008

60 km from Warsaw in Poland

16-18 May – A Hogan building workshop.

23 – 25 May. - Building with Earthbags / sandbags workshop. Learning about earth bag foundations, domes and arches, clay plastering and painting with lime.

4 – 5 June - Building with Earthbags / sandbags workshop. Building earthbag foundations for a straw bale structure.

6 – 8 June – Building with Straw bales. Building a straw bale structure

11-13 June- Earth plastering, sculpting, making and applying clay paints and straw/clay as insulation for new or existing buildings (learning how to insulate your existing house or barn using just straw and clay)

By Lake ‘Hancza’ North-Easterly corner of Poland

11-13 July - building with Cob, wattle & daub, adobe, clay plastering and sculpting, straw/clay as insulation for new or existing buildings (learning how to insulate your existing house or barn using just straw and clay). Building thin internal walls and partitions ( can be as thin as 1cm) using straw, clay and other fibres.

14, 15 July – cordwood and rammed earth building workshop.

18-20 July - Building with Earthbags / sandbags workshop. Learning about earth bag foundations, domes and arches, clay plastering and painting with lime.

22-24 July- Building with Straw bales. Building a straw bale structure

26-28 July – Earth plastering, sculpting, making and applying clay paints and straw/clay as insulation for new or existing buildings (learning how to insulate your existing house or barn using just straw and clay).

1-3 August - survival workshop: building a shelter, eating wild plants, cleaning, washing, preparing food and some medicines.

9, 10 August - building a sweat lodge workshop and a labyrinth celebration.

60 km from Warsaw in Poland

5-7 September- survival workshop: building a shelter, eating wild plants, cleaning, washing, preparing food and some medicines.

12-14 September – cordwood building, clay plastering and making a green roof.

4,5 October - survival workshop: building a shelter, eating wild plants, cleaning, washing, preparing food and some medicines.

6-8 October – an overview of Natural building technologies such as: straw bale building, cordwood and earthbag building

10-12 October – cob, wattle and daub, earth plastering, sculpting, straw/clay as insulation for new or existing buildings (learning how to insulate your existing house or barn using just straw and clay)

Workshops cost:

100 Euros for a 3-day workshop

70 Euros per 2-day workshop