2. workshop in Grymsdyke Farm

25.03/02.04.12

main purpose: producing components for the 1:20 or 1:10 models

using laser cutter, cnc - machine, et cetera. 

                         

                                            organizing

cooking

thinking

doing

exhibition

After gaining success and supportive feedback in the Open Jury, we were asked to held an exhibition of our own. 

Laser cutter broke down thus the site model 1:1000 was cut by hand. 
Pairs of hands + flow + impressive jokes  and a bit of 'panikos' + 'shokku'  and it became the most beautiful site model of all unit c time. 

adobe brick - workshop

adobe brick workshop in LA Casa de Fang- Rupià, Spain

Material needed: clay, straw, water + dancing feet

clean the mold.  

put the mold to cleaned, wet area. 

to avoid voids fill the mold in parts, first the corners.

take big gravels out. 

shave it flat by hand.

take the mold out, don't shake it.

add texture if you like.

tadaa! ready! just let it dry,
 clay will absorb water according to it's negative charge.

The Sra Pou Vocational School, in Cambodia. sun dried mud bricks made from the local red earth

The Hotel Tierra Atacama, in Chile. stone, mud brick (adobe) and rammed earth

http://www.eartharchitecture.org/index.php?/categories/2-Mud-Brick 

http://www.architecturelist.com/tag/vernacular-architecture/

http://lauriebaker.net/work/work/alternative-building-materials-timeless-mud.html

video [it is not just a brick-group]

http://vimeo.com/34755301


One of the many videos from the group with the brick that is almost like a normal brick. But not quite.

As they say; God lives in the details.