Natural Building

This four-week (8 session) course will provide you with a comprehensive theoretical and practical overview of natural building methods. Structured to provide a balance of traditional classroom learning alongside hands-on experience, we’ll focus on the main forms of modern natural building, including:

• straw bale wall construction
• Earthship design
• super adobe/earthbag
• hempcrete
• rammed earth
• cob 
• earthen and lime plasters

We’ll also delve into the under-appreciated history of indigenous  architecture, ancient earth building and construction in the age of industrial capitalism. 

Each week of the course will give you a chance to experience hands-on natural building projects, giving you the confidence to tackle projects of your own.

Trainer Bio

Disillusioned with the limitations of environmental activism, Kegan became passionate about grassroots direct action and the down-to-earth ethics of natural building. Over subsequent years he studied and practised in a number of complementary fields, including permaculture design, horticulture, natural building (straw bale and Earthships), environmental philosophy and the sociology of nature. In 8 years of practise, Kegan has developed alternative skills to become an accomplished natural builder, permaculture tradesperson and community facilitator. Kegan runs his business, Of The Earth, from the inner north, working to introduce natural building methods and permaculture into the mainstream of landscape design and construction. When he’s not working in the field, he’s an organiser with the civil disobedience environment movement, Extinction Rebellion. You can check out his work at www.oftheearth.net

Dates

This 8 session course will run for four weeks on Wednesdays and Saturdays:

• Wed 6th May
• Saturday 9th May
• Wed 13th May
• Sat 16th May
• Wed 20th May
• Sat 23rd May
• Wed 27th May
• Sat 30th May

What to bring

Note pad + Pen