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Oct
22-26
CONSTRUCTION EN TERRE, BRIQUES, TORCHIS, PISEPermettre aux participants de découvrir les différentes techniques de construction en terre. Les participants pourront évaluer les possibilités constructives de leur terre (apporter des échantillons, environ 20 litres). Maîtriser la fabrication et la pose de briques de terre comprimées. Programme:Présentation de la construction terre : Pisé, torchis, briques d'adobe, BTC; Analyse des terres, ajout de charges, de fibres; Brique de terre comprimée et stabilisée et briques d'adobe; Stabilisation et teneur en eau; Le calepinage; Fabrication de briques; Mise en oeuvre de murs et d'arcs; Théorie et exercices seront intimement liés

le GABION
Domaine du Pont Neuf, Embrun, France

€640
Nov 1-4 Adobe Workshop - The importance of this traditional, even archaic, engineering technique lies in its environmental properties and in the opportunity to build with it a solid, humane, useful, and beautiful roof by hand, with no need to purchase any building material. Jesusita teaches the intricate devices for placing adobe bricks in a circular configuration in order to complete a semi-spherical domed roof. Contact Simone Swan mobile +1 832 277 4425, phone +1 432 229 4425 swan@adobealliance.org


The Adobe Alliance
Ojinaga, OR, USA

$400
USD

       
  Courses you've missed in 2007 but they are keep here so that you can browse around the various organisations    
       
July
12-15
"Build with Us" Natural Building Workshop - Learn through building yourself and creating a simple structure including all aspects of the building process from basic sustainable design principles, selecting clay, making adobe bricks, building walls from various earthen techniques, earthen plasters for earthen and strawbale walls, to natural homemade paints and finishes.

Pun Pun
Jefferson, Colorado,
USA

$275
USD
July 27 Adobe and Cob Building - Part of a series of one-day workshops included in the Natural Building Components module of our Natural Building School.

The Rockies
Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada

$79
CND

       
  Courses you've missed in 2006 but they are keep here so that you can browse around the various organisations    
       
May
22-28
Intro to Adobe Construction - Tutor Kirk Higbee.

Quentin Wilson
El Rito, New Mexico,
USA

$110
USD
November
3-6
Vault-building Workshop - Workshops for wall building, handmade roof building, and plastering have been organized every year since 1998 with great success, and with attendance by a large variety of people from coast to coast, in between, and from abroad. We are aiming at November 3-6, 2006 for our next vault-building workshop, with interns welcome as of October 10th, and after the workshop. Adobe Alliance
Santa Fe,
New Mexico, USA