Rammed Mud House at The Festival of Xtreme Building
The Festival of Extreme Building in Partnership with Ramboll Whitbybird are about to undertake an experiment in sustainable construction technology in Birmingham ...
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Dear Heretics and Fruitcakes Well I have to say it’s amazing what things spring to your mind at the funniest times of the day or night as it’s now 11.55pm. Maccarinelli has just retained ...
Coming up to the next workshop at Fox Hollies school, the shape of what the final work will be was taking better shape in my head. I'm planning to try to express ...
Growing art and architecture together in the verdant landscape of the Natural House Project produces a Temple... This Hermitge at Compton Verney is now radiant and alive... wheat grains are sprouting ...
The first workshop I did with pupils at Fox Hollies school was designed to introduce the project: what I was doing there, and what that had to do with the ambitious changes ...
Dear Heretics and Fruitcakes Eight years ago I was a fishing widow! That is until the day I could smell rotting mackeral upstairs and had been assured by nearest and dearest that ...
On Sunday 24th June I created the final print! I have really enjoyed this opportunity to work in an experimental way to create piece of work that I wouldn't normally produce. I ...
On Saturday 23rd June my collagraph plate was almost finished so I set to work inking it up to print. I wanted it in full colour so I carefully rubbed different ...
On Thurs 21st June I set to work creating a collagraph print of the 'Ideal Home'. To create a collagraph I start with a piece of card and then stick various ...
The Urban Shanty Builder is continually required to respond to the changing demands of the urban context. The House of Angels and Pins, is a place for the meeting of different realities, a ...
For the Urban Shanty Builder, the need to address the vernacular of the immediate environment is paramount if the Shanty is to have any sense of belonging and longevity. Just as the ...
The Urban Environment is a felt experience. From the sensations of the skin through to the empathic feelings of the tugged emotions. Even the visual experience, so crucial to the modern urban experience, ...
Of the materials which construct our sense of place, dust is the most visceral and ignored. Dust is the trace of the body, micro-fragments of our perpetually disintegrating fabric. For the Urban Shanty ...
Perpetual motion, usually of the energy expending kind flows through the Urban Environment. From the collisions of migration through to the ambulations of the urban walker, this drives the frisson of urban ...
Workshops in Birmingham - how was it?
The participants of workshops at Birmigham site said: Photo by Jo Hallington Very inspiring-reminding us all that we can take control of our own environment, build our ...
Workshops at Compton Verney - how was it?
Participants of the workshops at Compton Verney said: A house/home that's really part of you (And we enjoyed squelching the clay through our fingers!) - Ann Photo by Jo Hallington Very ...
Sustainable Building Construction Event in South Shropshire
A practical demonstration of alternative building practice using locally occurring materials Venue : Acton Scott Historic Working Farm Date: 20th July 2007 Picture by Ania Bas A full days programme will explore building ...
Pockets of Loveliness (and Mud) by Daniel Gay
"The Natural House Project" at Acton Scot ( … Saturday the 16th of June 2007 … ) by Daniel Gay I am sitting on a slightly damp bench by the wall ...
The Natural House at Compton Verney (4)
Hello, the walls are drying, last night a creature was nesting in the thatch... yesterday I disturbed a large moth crawling into sanctuary under the eaves whilst combing them... the nearby Ice ...
Workshops at Acton Scott - how was it?
Participants of the workshops at Acton Scott said: Throwing the mud on the wall was the best! I had lots of fun - Verity We had a great tactile time! Mashing straw into ...
