Dear all,Just want to catch this email flow, and offer to host workshops for any other 'Masters' touring Europe. We run the 'PermaLot Centre for Natural building' in Czech Republic, a NGO initiative inspired by the Cob Cottage Company and similar facilities in Norway and Russia. Our aim is to teach the trade of Natural building to CEE country participants. We're still limited by the fact that we are only able to offer 'in-house' accommodation during summer season, but are actively looking for funding to create accommodation for 18 people upstairs in our 120 year old farm building. We just renovated our site: www.permalot.org, and I'd encourage any educators among you to make use of the new 'comic book' manuals I'm making. You'll find them under the 'resources' tab on the site.
Here's some links for the Portuguese architect in case he'd prefer to save our planet from more CO2 pollution from his travel(!), and may want to stay home in Portugal and connect to the following:
The square SB approach by architect/earth builder Eduardo Carvalho and friends: http://www.planob.com/eng/planob.html
The curvy SB approach of Tamera: http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=509&L=0...Or the more home made approach of 'Luzku-Fuzku', which currently are involved in making a micro theater of SB and cob: http://www.ecolivingportugal.org/2009/01/luzku-fuzku-agenda-2009/
Naturally, another option is to join us all at the Euro Strawbale Gathering in Belgium in August, where several masters will be showing their different approaches...
Enjoy, Max Vittrup Jensen, Natural Builder and networker
I have had a request by a Portugese arquitect looking for SB workshops oriented towards "profesionals"-anywhere in Europe