Natural Building Workshop: Sep 7 – Oct 11

In this permaskills Natural Building Workshop we are building a PermaHome guesthouse for Christoph & Mario’s permaculture project in southern Italy. There are no skill requirements. You will learn everything you need to build a house from foundation to roof.

From April 26th to May 30th we will start another round of permaskills Natural Building Workshops near Badolato in southern Italy. These workshops will provide you plenty of opportunity to get hands-on experience in Natural Building, all the skills and especially the confidence you need to build a little cabin for yourself. The highlights of these workshops are a natural rock stemwall & foundation, a natural round wood timber frame and roof, light-straw-clay, straw bale as well as cob walls, earthen floors, earthen plasters, a rainwater harvesting roof and even cob sculpting, Tadelakt and an integrated greenhouse to make this building something like an earthship.

Certification	permaskills Natural Building Certificate
Instruction language	English / English & German
Certification Levels	2 weeks: Beginner 3 weeks: Intermediate 4 weeks: Advanced 5 weeks: Master
Date	2 weeks: Sept. 21st – Oct 4th 3 weeks: Sept. 14th – Oct 4th 4 weeks: Sept. 7th – Oct 4th 5 weeks: Sept. 7th – Oct. 11th
Location	Badolato, CZ, southern Italy
Building Style	PermaHome
Instructor	Robert Brendler
Hosts	Mario & Christoph

Project: a PermaHome guesthouse

In this year’s permaskills Natural Building Workshops we will build Christoph & Mario a PermaHome guesthouse for their permaculture project. They would like a room that can house 2-3 guests, a shower, toilet and a little kitchen area to prepare snacks. Imagine the following plan without the bedrooms:

Workshop: Natural Building

These permaskills Natural Building Workshops consists of theoretical instruction (in English or English & German) with lectures & graphics as well as hands-on construction for 7 – 8 hours a day. The successful completion of these Workshops gives you a Natural Building Certificate.

In this permaskills Natural Building Workshop you can build a complete building from foundation through floors and walls to the roof with your own hands. We are trying to use only natural materials, so you know exactly what you are working and surround yourself with.

Extras

Because this is an area with possibility of light earthquakes, we will talk about earthquake protection and apply what we learned on the building.

We will build a green house extension to plant some snacks and have a thermal buffer zone and passive heat in winter. The green house will include grey-water planters that are fed from the sink and showers.

Natural Builder Certification

You will receive a permaskills Natural Builder Certificate, all the teaching materials by email and the permaskills – Natural Builder’s Handbook, which is a summary of the workshop building steps, upon graduation.

Workshop Requirements

There are no skill requirements for these permaskills Natural Building Workshops! That said, it certainly won’t hurt if you know some things and put it to good use or share it with others. Nobody is perfect and we are always curious to learn other ways of doing things.