Event Listing - Home & Garden, Education
Mon Jul 20 - Sat Jul 25

Solar Living Institute presents

Natural Building Intensive


Tel. 707-472-2450
Email Natural Building Intensive
Website
$350

Location
Date and Time
El Sobrante
772 Santa Maria Rd
El Sobrante, CA 94803
district: El Sobrante

Mon Jul 20 (9:00 am to 5:00 pm)
Tue Jul 21 (9:00 am to 5:00 pm)
Wed Jul 22 (9:00 am to 5:00 pm)
Thu Jul 23 (9:00 am to 5:00 pm)
Fri Jul 24 (9:00 am to 5:00 pm)

Description
NB 200: Natural Building Intensive
Jul 20-25 2009, 9:00AM-5:00PM

This course is designed for both first time builders, as well as professional builders and contractors who want to explore building with natural materials. This course focuses on earthen building, offering hands on experience with cob, light straw clay, adobe block, and wattle and daub. Students will learn how to smoothly integrate various natural building materials to create the best possible building solution for each individual situation.

As a complement to the hands-on building portion of the course we include slide shows and discussion sessions about building design and siting, passive solar design, foundations and drainage, natural plasters and earthen floors, roofs, and electric and plumbing for earthen buildings.

There will also be opportunity to gain some skills in simple wood working for those with no or minimal wood working experience.