If you have a vision for building your home, a community, or even helping others to build theirs, stop and consider the hands-on Workshops or Apprenticeship Course at Cal-Earth Institute in California. Give us a few days of your time and we will teach you hands-on how to build your home, your school, your career, or your entire community, without cutting down a single tree; by using the earth under your feet and utilizing the elements of earth, wind, water and fire.
Topics Covered:
- The principle of the arch
- Superadobe basics
- Soils practicum and discussion
- Superadobe & plaster workshop with stabilized earth
- Learning to read blueprints
- Elements of design, placing windows and doors
- Contrasting domes with vaults
- Vaulted roofing system, dome geometry
- Site planning, orientation, simple solar passive strategies
- Compass theory and application
- Waterproofing, foundations
Upcoming Dates Spring/Summer 2010
April 19-24 One-week workshop (few spaces left)
May 17-22 One-week workshop (few spaces left)
June 14- 19 One-week workshop
July 7-10 Four-day workshop
Application and more information available at:
http://calearth.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11e77b0bfd0ddc97f4d53c6cc&id=d00c04d402&e=d2dbade9b9
