Natural materials training

Maria started running courses and workshop 4 years ago, when her passion for disseminating the use of natural materials opened the chance of taching the master students at CAT and started collaborating with EBUKI. You can read more about her trajectory here and visit her Instagram page Beyond Our Roots to understand better her training and facilitation experience.

Do you dream of building with earth but don't know where to start? Next year I am running two weekend courses at CAT (@centreforalternativetechnology) and with the support of the Earth Building Network @ebukigram The first one in MAY and the secon
Last week, I participated in the UNESCO Earth Education event hosted at University College London, where we spent the day discussing the present and future of Earth education, especially within higher education. As an architect and executive member o
Final Earth Conference 2024 Line-up!! OPENING SPEAKER: Harry Johnson, part of the Prize-Winning architecture and art studio Assemble. Talk: The importance of establishing local networks of materials and makers. Becky Little & Tom Morton: Earth
Beautiful days at @tierritalindapopayan. I have been wanting to summarise those days volunteering and it has taken me 2 months to actually do it! Volunteering at this place was special because I got to meet a big bunch of wonderful people, first of
Forth week at La Rancha @zeta.cultural we carried on working with earth and fibres trying to finish up the little projects as much as we could. After finishing the first bajareque layers we moved onto the plasters. I had the opportunity of facilitat
Third week at La Rancha @zeta.cultural we started applying earth over the frames! The mix for bahareque is really similar to cob, Adobe mix but more similar really to wattle and daub. At least the bahareque made in this area of Mexico!! I love how e
This week at @zeta.cultural we worked on the frame. Because it was new moon, it was the perfect time to collect the steaks needed for bajareque. We collected them, peeled them and prepare the frame. It's a hard work and the steaks need to be collect
The process has started in La Rancha with @zeta.cultural. We started by extracting the subsoil by hand, with hand tools, with lots of hands with our bodies and our love and energy. We are looking to build the kitchen walls using bahareque. This week
Chozas mayas. Yucatan. EN These hits are made of stone walls or a frame made of stakes and plastered with mud. Due to a lack of maintenance some of the render has crumbled, leaving the wall exposed and naked, and leading to decay. Nowadays, like
Memories from the natural building course I co-led with @maria_javaloyes and @mono4mind founded by @coceder_rural and managed by @cdrlacana in Jerez (Cádiz, Andalucía). We spent three days learnjng about a prefabricated technique for s