Archive for June, 2010

[ August 14, 2010 to August 21, 2010. ] See how humans can build with what nature provides, without destroying the beauty that is offered.

Learn how to build efficiently and become empowered to create your own home/castle/shed/whatever.

2010 Cob Building Workshop Poster.pdf (541 KB)

[ July 17, 2010 to July 18, 2010. ] Have you caught the natural building craze? Learn how to use environmentally-friendly local materials to construct an outdoor oven. Facilitated by Nate Cunnings of Cunnings Oven Builders.

[ June 17, 2010 to June 18, 2010. June 24, 2010 to June 25, 2010. July 3, 2010 to July 4, 2010. July 10, 2010 to July 11, 2010. July 31, 2010 to August 1, 2010. ] Join us for a weekend workshop ideal for beginners.

Learn the fundamentals of energy effective and environmentally responsible building while gaining hands on experience on a real project!

[ June 26, 2010 to July 1, 2010. ] Learn to build beautiful, durable, long-lasting natural structures using little more than the earth beneath your feet. In this six day intensive course, we’ll explore all aspects of building including foundations, walls, roofs and finishes.
Focused specifically on cob – a millennia old material made from clay, sand and straw that is built without using forms [...]

[ June 19, 2010 to June 27, 2010. ] (to be held at the Hollies complex in Co.Cork, Ireland – visit their website at www.theholliesonline.com)
After the great success in previous years the Hollies are looking forward to run this very comprehensive building course again this year. At the end of the 9 days you will know all you need to be able to go [...]

[ June 26, 2010; ] Earthen ovens are made out of a mixture of clay-soil, sand, sawdust, straw and firebrick. They’re simple, low-cost and fun to build. After taking this workshop, you’ll soon be baking your own wood-fired bread and pizza in your beautiful new work of art! This one-day workshop will cover earthen oven construction from start to finish. [...]

[ June 14, 2010 to June 20, 2010. ] Learn how to build a house of cob! Cob is a building material made of clay soil, sand and straw. Join us, Andi and Ian Miller, at our farm, Bergbauernhof, as we build our home and teach you how you can build your own cottage, house or tool shed out of the earth beneath your [...]

[ June 14, 2010 to June 19, 2010. ] In this practical workshop you will learn a range of techniques for building your own beautiful, durable home from simple natural materials. Featured wall systems include cob, slipstraw or light straw-clay, wattle-and-daub, and clay wattle. You will also learn how to make and apply clay plasters and get to explore a straw bale home on [...]

[ June 16, 2010 to June 23, 2010. ] We’ll be building a Rumford fireplace as well as a rocket mass oven with a heated bed and bench at an amazing beautiful location in the forest by Zensee, some 90 km from Berlin. We’ll also make an earthen bread/pizza oven, start a cob structure and likely some initial layers for an earthen floor.

The workshop [...]

[ June 19, 2010 to June 27, 2010. ] A complete cob workshop that provides the skills necessary to transform the earth into a cottage or studio. We will cover design, passive solar, foundations, soils/materials, cob mixing, straw-bale hybrids, doors and windows, sculptural details, roofing, plastering, flooring and more. Using inexpensive natural and local materials we’ll create a garden studio of great durability [...]

[ June 5, 2010 to June 6, 2010. ] This class is a conceptual and hands on introduction to earthbag construction, also known as superadobe or free-form rammed earth. This technique was originally popularized by Nadir Khalili, at the Hesperia Institute in southern California; and more recently by Kaki Hunter and Doni Kiffmeyer, the authors of the book Earthbag Building. The hands-on [...]

[ June 19, 2010 to June 20, 2010. ] Adobe block, a sun dried earthen brick, is the most common natural building technique in the world. Many of the worlds most striking earthen structures and techniques are executed in adobe brick, and more people around the world know how to build with adobe than any other construction technique. The hands-on [...]

[ May 30, 2010 to June 4, 2010. ] Start Date / End Date:: 5/30/10-6/04-10Green roofs are gaining popularity for several reasons. They are super efficient at insulating a home. They also minimize our ecological footprint by retaining and filtering water before it reaches our rivers and streams. In this course, we will explore intensive and extensive green roof systems. We will discuss various [...]

[ June 4, 2010 to June 6, 2010. ]

Equally as important for a house as the foundation is the roof. Get hands-on experience in installing a low-cost, living (green) roof.

The Friday night presentation will cover the basic concepts behind a green roof (pros and cons), as well as an introduction to design of the one we will be building over the weekend. We [...]

[ April 14, 2010 to September 14, 2010. ] Come live and work in our rural intentional community and join us in constructing our new Community House. Areas will include framing, natural wall systems, base coat and finish plasters, living roofs and finish carpentry. Visit www.emeraldearth.org or contact community@emeraldearth.org.