| 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 and can be sculpted to form curves, archways, niches and just about anything else you can imagine – we’ll also explore other ‘recipes’ for hybrid natural building materials that are appropriate in different circumstances. Cob structures can literally be built for free and if well protected with a good foundation, roof and plaster finish, they can easily last centuries.
During this workshop, we will be finishing a cob structure, building a wall, bench and oven and installing a round pole natural roof.
>> Trevor Twine is sculptor, natural builder and heating engineer, specializing in renewable energy heating and traditional building techniques. After apprenticing with master builder Keith Rawlinson in the nineties, he has completed countless natural building and restoration projects of his own, on 16th and 17th century cottages in southern UK gaining vast experience in all aspects of house development and a deep knowledge of natural materials..
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