Earthbuilding School
In-person workshops & internships
We are proud to serve a growing international community of
students, builders, designers, homeowners and educators
who create healthy and beautiful living spaces that don't cost the Earth.
The 2023 workshop series is now finished
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Intro to Earthbuilding
This is a video one of our students made about a 5-day workshop that covered cob oven building, earthen floors, earthen plasters, Adobe brick construction and artistic play with natural paints.
PREVIOUS NATURAL BUILDING WORKSHOPS
Specialty Natural Building Workshops
Book us to run an earth building training or workshop at your place
We are very happy to come to your place to run a workshop or training. This can be anything from a fun 1-day pizza oven building play-shop, to a week-long specialized training in earthen plaster techniques for trades people, to facilitating working bees or community builds.
We usually require clients to be responsible for organizing the on-site logistics and advertising of their own event, but can of course help with this if needed.
For workshops we teach in a team of two and the charge for tuition is $1200+GST per day (for longer trainings we charge an hourly rate for preparation and planning), plus travel and accommodation.
A discount can be negotiated for community or school projects, please do not hesitate to talk to me about your options.
Natural building topics we can cover
Development and testing of different earth building materials (Adobe bricks, plasters, floor mixes, cob mixes, etc)
Earthbuilding design and construction (both load-bearign earth walls and hybrid earth-timber construction)
Set-up of large scale brick production and building sites
Different natural building techniques: Adobe brick technique, Cob, Light Earth Infill (LEM), Strawclay, Wattle-and-Daub and experimental earth building, strawbale, Hempclay
Different natural plasters: Earthen plasters, lime plasters, Tadelakt
Natural paints and wall finishes: Casein paint, alis, lime wash, natural pigments
Different plaster artistry and mural techniques: Sgraffito, al fresco painting, relief bas, inlays
Different earthen floor techniques: Adobe tiles and poured earth floor, including finishing options
Pizza ovens made of cob
Restoration of historic earth buildings
Low-impact appropriate technologies such as compost hot water, compost toilets, rocket stoves and rocket mass heaters
Restoration of historic earth buildings
Elemental therapeutic and somatic encounters with Earth - Water - Fire - Air
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