Our final SuperAdobe workshop is live!

After 9 years of travelling around Australia and the World, Curvatecture are semi-retiring from on-site builds and large scale workshops. We shall stay present in the field, but just take a rest for a few years!

So we present to you our final large-scale workshop: Building a beautiful, fully permitted, small SuperAdobe Round House in Foster, VIC.

This is another landmark build, for it is the fourth SuperAdobe home to be built in Australia; a true triumph for this blossoming technology. If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to achieve permits on an alternative building, we’d love to share with you our journey.

It is for a beautiful client named Nullani, who will be moving into the home upon completion, and also running her ongoing Meditation and Healing practice from it.

The workshop will be focussing on all aspect of SuperAdobe bag-work, but also including

• History and evolution of SuperAdobe & Earthbag Systems

• Design concepts

• Complete hands-on introduction and education to all aspects of laying bag

• How to incorporate doors, windows, electrical, and plumbing

• Foundation design and execution

• How to achieve permits for a Natural Building in Australia

• Soil Identification and how to implement your findings within Natural Technologies

• Introduction to cob

• Introduction to Natural Plasters and Renders

• Hands-on introduction to Tadelakt Plaster technique

• Plus more to be announced

There will be beautiful vegetarian meals prepared for everyone throughout the three weeks, and an open invitation for daily meditation sessions guided by Nullani.

The build is on a cute block on a quiet street, where we will spend our days, and we’ll be basing ourselves at a close-by neighbours bush block for all our sleeping and socialising times.

This workshop will run for 3 weeks, and will be focussing on the SuperAdobe wall construction. The build will continue for a year afterwards, so if anyone would like to stay on and assist in all the other aspects of the build including completing the roof, ceiling, internal and external plasters, window and door install, and all the beautiful finishing touches, please do include your expression of interest in the form below. This section of the build will be run by Marc, the onsite builder who will be managing the majority of the build, and will be a more relaxed, non-workshop environment. FOLLOW ALONG WITH THE BUILD HERE: https://www.instagram.com/_rawbuilder/?hl=en

Dates have been confirmed! April 25th until May 15th 2022

Please apply below with the supplied form, and share with us the dates you would like to attend.

The workshop will cost $150 per week

This is our lowest cost workshop to date, as we wanted to be accessible to as many people as possible.

Please register your interest below, and we can’t wait to meet you all!

We will be following a similar design to the one below, only much bigger!

Come and help us complete our Earthbag and Superadobe dome!

We would love some helping hands between the 16th and 30th of January 2022 to help us plaster, install a floor, install windows and doors, and put a fireplace in.

All in a fun and easy-going learning environment, from one of the most established SuperAdobe builders in Australia.

Food and camping spot included. Applicants must be available for the whole 2 week period, and spots are very limited.

Apply below:

THIS WORKSHOP IS FREE OF CHARGE!

Join us to learn how to build a SuperAdobe Earthbag Dome, which is an alternative building method utilising on-site soil

It will feature local clay & lime based renders, bespoke windows & doors & skylight, solar power, and a small wood-fired stove

It will function as a guesthouse, on a beautiful rural property in eastern VIC, near Dargo

As manager of Curvatecture, Hayden is one of the most established SuperAdobe builders in Australia, and has tackled projects big and small, legally approved and non-approved spaces, featuring a myriad of different Natural Building techniques, all fuelled by his intense obsession with the earth and how to best utilise it within our buildings. Never before have we offered a FREE dome workshop, so please do come and get involved in a once-off build

Food, camping, and teaching is all free of charge for those wanting to be involved!

We will offer a camping spot, communally cooked meals, showers and drop-dunnies, HEAPS of SuperAdobe hands on time, and hopefully some Cob making and applying, and some scratch coat external plasters

This workshop will focus mainly on laying SuperAdobe bags, and then the following month from the 20th Sep - 29th October will be an open working-bee structure to complete the fit-out and plastering, which all are welcome to stay on for, or attend separately if you can’t make the SuperAdobe section

We will also be making a Cob pizza oven, for some yummy hand-made pizzas throughout the 2 month build

Come and get dirty and learn a whole bunch toward building fire-resistant, earth-based, dirt-cheap buildings!

Apply below:

Join our FREE SuperAdobe workshop in Gippsland on September 2nd until October 1st

Led by Millie of Curvatecture, you’ll learn and practice SuperAdobe techniques that will equip you in building your own earthbag construction using resources from the land. Working in teams, you’ll take part in a unique off-grid project, building walls of an underground room and sunken living area for a traditional Mongolian yurt. The build will take place on a beautiful 24 acre property in Boolarra South, featuring lush rolling hills, rainforest and plenty of wildlife (wombats, lyrebirds, wedgetail eagles etc). 

Camping and food are FREE for all volunteers... so is all the education from Millie. After just a couple of days you’ll have all the knowledge you need to inform and inspire your own SuperAdobe project (e.g. tiny home, greenhouse, retaining wall, garden beds etc). Learn, laugh and build friendships with like minded people!

The workshop will run from September 2nd til October 1st but volunteers are welcome to join us for smaller stints of 2 days or more. 

To register to join, fill in the form below with the dates you’re interested in coming and the names of the volunteers. Spots are limited so be quick!

IN LOCKDOWN? You’re still welcome to join us because the construction industry is exempt from lockdown. Email us if you have concerns