[Cob] Searching for people who do natural building in Germany or Europe or people who are interested in that

[Tony Conway]

Hi Luchs,
I run the project Vale das Lobas in Portugal, and in 2019 we will build houses and other buildings with Compressed Earth Blocks and some buildings with timber frame straw bales, all with earth and lime renders.  The waste water treatment will be with plants, and we will build 2 natural swimming pools, both with biological filtration. We will also use tadelakt in our spa pool construction.

Regards

Tony Conway
Vale das Lobas

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> On 29 Dec 2018, at 16:42, dermitdemhut <dermitdemhut at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello Friends of Cob,
> 
> My Name is Luchs, I live in Germany and I subscribed to this list to get
> to know other people who are interested and/or experienced in natural
> building and building with cob. I would like to exchange knowledge and
> learn new technics. It's nice of course to have an email-list for that,
> but I would be really happy to know that there is other people who are
> involved in that topic close to where I live. Because for me it means
> that this would be people I could potentially actually meet. With
> "close" I mean in Germany or other Countrys in Europe. Do you know about
> people who do that stuff (or even give workshops or possibilities to
> join projects) somewhere around here? So far I heard about terra alta in
> Portugal and places in the UK.
> 
> I'm especially interested in:
> 
>  * Plastering and working with lime
>  * Building a Rocket Mass Heater Oven
>  * Wastewater treatment with plants
>  * Building with Straw bales
> 
> I have quite some handicraft skills and already started a project with
> the knowledge I found in the Internet (mostly on Simon Dales Homepage).
> It is going to be a round garden hut built on a rubble trench with dry
> stone stem walls, straw bale walls, an oak round wood frame and a
> reciprocal roof. So far I'm doing quite well I think (I'm finishing the
> frame at the moment and preparing the roof), but I would love to learn
> more from (and with) other people instead of sitting alone in front of
> my computer doing research or sitting alone and thinking about problems
> that other people might already have nice solutions for.
> 
> in short: I Would love to share my enthusiasm about this topic, exchange
> knowledge and work together with other people who are also enthusiastic
> about that. And preferably face to face :-).
> 
> I'm happy about every answer, every hint and every contact you have for
> me on that!
> 
> thank you,
> 
> Luchs
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