Natural Building Workshop -Cob
Where: Vlachia, Evia
When: From 17/6 to 20/6 2016 Arrival of participants on Friday 17th, to set tents and to get to know each other.
Subjects covered:
Theory
◦ Επιλογή κατάλληλων υλικών
◦ Cob constructions
◦ Strawbale constructions
◦ Foundations
◦ Natural Plasters
Practical training
◦ Construction of cob wall
◦ Construction of rocket mass heater
General Information:
- Daily hands-on activities from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Theory from 15:00 to 16:00
• Free afternoon for walks on the mountain or the sea
• Maximum number of participants 20 people
• Participation cost: 90 Euros. This includes breakfast, light lunch, dinner.
Participants stay at their own tents
If you wish to participate please fill the form below and you will then receive an e-mail with all the necessary information. Contact phone number +30 6942 83 82 11 (Yiannis Papatheodorou)
Residence and music studio from cob
The concept for Carol’s house emerged from a roof with a curved ridge. Thus, we marked on the land the locations of nine posts that would support the roof. With the shape of the roof and the locations of the posts given, we designed fifteen different solutions for the curved walls in-between the posts.
Two where the reasons for this plethora of plans: Firstly, the internal area of the house is only 18sm, demanding conscientious planning for it to be functional. Secondly, the design process was approached by the owner as an analysis of her persona, as it was the first time she was asked to think her way of life and embrace it in a house. Together we experimented with different sequences of functions, spatial diagrams and morphologies for the following spaces that this single person would need: kitchen, shower, bed, sitting area, storage space, studio. 
The plan that was finally chosen resembles the “House in Maggasa” of the Minoan civilisation. This house can be analysed into a single line of a spiralling wall. The route inside the house is spiral and guides the user gradually from public to common to private space. 
In this manner, at the materialised design for Carol’s house the visitor fist encounters the veranda and enters the house through the kitchen; the space with the owner regards as the second more public after the veranda. Then, the visitor arrives at a big empty curved space, which functions as a meeting space, meditation space and music studio. 
As requested from the owner, this space is the heart of the house and was designed in a way that would allow Carol to move freely in it while playing the violin or dancing. The route inside the house ends at a niche that hosts a sitting area, which becomes the bed during the night. 
Regarding the construction of the building, the roof is wooden and structurally functions separately to the walls. For the ridge we scarfed together two pine trunks, which were curved on site. 
Then, the ridge was connected to the chestnut posts and, after it was raised to its final position, it was connected with rafters to two straight beams. The final form looks like the shell of a turtle. As for the walls, they sit on stone foundation and they constitute a monolithic structure of cob which is inscribed in the perimeter of the roof and enclaves in its curves the functions of the house. 
Natural Building Workshop, Self-Sufficiency Celebration
In the middle of April, the municipality of Ilioupoli and the Centre for Natural Farming organised a Self-sufficiency Festival at Kidis park. We were invited to do a cob workshop. In this context, we build together with the participants of the festival a sitting area for the user of the park. Read more
Construction of a wooden frame for a thatched house in Crete
In spring time Stagones team went to Crete in order to construct a timber frame for a strawbale house. We worked for about two months with Oscar Emanuel from English Emanuel-Hendry as well as with local craftsmen to bring this part of the project to completion. Read more
Natural Building Workshop 29/5 έως 1/6 2015
From 29/5 to 1/6 2015 stagones are organising a cob workshop for begginers at the Island of Evia. The participants will have the oppportunity to learn cob both theoretically and practically. The aim is to build a kitchen and for that reason we will be building for around 8 hours everyday. The cost for non Greek participants is 160 Euros and includes the training and breakfast, lunch and dinner. The number of participants will not exceed 20 people. Please fill the following form if your interested in participating. If you need any other info please call at +306942838211 (Yiannis Papatheodorou)