WE WILL HOST EARHEN BUILDING WORKSHOP IN PORTUGAL FROM OCTOBER 2024 AGAIN
Our earthen home in Slovakia
After building an earthen home and hosting building workshops in Slovakia, we'd like to continue teaching this important and amazing life skill in Portugal.
We welcome you to join one of our workshop days in a beautiful food forest garden (Falfosa, near Loule), where you will experience building with earth, stone and wood, the most ancient building materials. We are currently constructing an outdoor kitchen and a children's playhouse.
These workshops are an introduction to building with earth, where we will cover the building techniques, soil testing, mixing materials and constructing/hand-sculpting walls and furniture.
1 DAY EARTHEN BUILDING WORKSHOP -Â ADULTS
The adult course covers a wide range of topics relating to the construction of an earthen building. You will gain theoretical and practical knowledge on: building regulations, designing with passive solar and energy saving principles, earth's thermal mass for storing heat, materials/tools needed for building process, planning and building the roof, testing your soil, how to mix materials with correct clay-sand ratios, foundations, drainage, stem wall, building the walls (with different methods for load-bearing walls or wall fillers), inserting window frames, earthen plasters, earthen floors, advantages/disadvantages of earth, combination with other building materials, performance of earthen homes during the summer and winter, and much more.Â
We offer a plant-based food with refreshments throughout the day.Â
Contribution: 85 Euro per person Limited places available
To book your place, send us a message here or WhatsApp +421 907 166 488 Katarina
EARTHEN BUILDING WORKSHOP - FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN