INTRODUCTIVE WORKSHOP TO BIODESIGN

 EXPERIMENTATION IN TECHNIQUES OF UNFIRED EARTH (ADOBE)
FOR THE REALIZATION OF DESIGN OBJECTS
 

The Pachamama by Herman Mejer, 2005

The workshop takes place in the Itria Valley (Ceglie Messapica-Brindisi), a territorial unity of South Italy, called Valley of the Trulloes, morphologically homogeneous and disseminated of ancient weird rural dwellings (lamie, trulloes) and farms in the green of secular olive-trees and small vineyards.

workshop of 6 days - 7 nights
INFO: +39 06/87180504; +39 06/87194085 
mobiles phone: +39 338/3982662 (Stefano); +39 328/3639642 (Paolo)
e-mail: assozoe@zoeonlus.it

BIODESIGN OBJECTS
 

RINGS in olive carved wood
Design by Mario Ferrarelli		   Adobe BRICKS (unfired earth)
Design by Mario Ferrarelli
 

RINGS in olive carved wood
Design by Mario Ferrarelli		   The "Pachamama" (unfired earth)
Design by Herman Mejer
 


Bio-lamps (unfired earth - rice paper - flour glue - natural color)
Design by Mario Ferrarelli		   Bio-lamps (unfired earth - rice paper - flour glue - natural color)
Design by Mario Ferrarelli



Panoramic of Itria Valley
 

adobe bricks

The workshop is meant to give the theoretical notions and basic practices on workmanship of unfired earth (Adobe) and the necessary elements to lead the multiple possibilities offered by biodesign.
Through a series of driven exercises, the first stadiums of workmanship of unfired earth are taught to allow a correct utilization of this technique, that represents the historical base of the bio-architecture.

The laboratory runs for 6/8 hours a day (morning and afternoon with lunch-break) and involves direct experimentation of the following steps:

-historical-functional description of adobe (overview of didactic materials)
-properties and preparation of adobe
-realization of simple (bricks and containers) forms, also using vegetable fiber material as basic structure;
-examples of application of adobe to bio-architecture (realization of a plaster and a bread oven)
-introduction to biodesign and realization of an object using chalk models.

Partecipation fee:
 

650 euro including lodging in B&B Farm
with breakfast and lunch (7 nights)

500 euro without lodging, (only lunch included)  
The partecipation fee includes:
- registration and inscription to ZOE onlus association for 2007
- (only first option 550 euro) lodging with breakfast and lunch in the farm (7 nights)
- personal insurance
- training material for the workshop
The partecipation fee doesn't include:
- two-way trip to the place of the workshop
- further meals excluding breakfast
- moves on the spot (recommended personal car for visiting naturalistic landscape resources of Itria Valley)
- any other voice not included in "the cost of the workshop includes."

The workshop turns to people interested in plastic-arts that want to acquire skill basis on unfired earth techniques, deepening and widening precedents handcraft experiences in ceramics; artisans willing to widen his/her own qualifications; people interested to the concepts of sustainable design and biodesign; students in architecture and engineering interested in basic concepts of bio-architecture
 

 


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HOW TO PARTECIPATE:
Please contact ZOE onlus association by e-mail: assozoe@zoeonlus.it - or by phone:
+39 06/87180504; +39 06/87194085 
mobile phone: +39 338/3982662 (Stefano); +39 328/3639642 (Paolo)

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HOW TO REACH CEGLIE MESSAPICA:

By plane: nearest airport Brindisi, then by local transport to Ceglie.

By train: Ostuni is the nearest train station on the line Bari-Lecce. Direct trains exist from Rome or from the main italian cities, also with promotional rates (“Treno OK” Roma-Bari_Ostuni; see: www.trenitalia.it)

By car: reach Bari and keep direction Brindisi. Way out "Cisternino", keep direction Cisternino. From Cisternino keep direction Ceglie until agritourism “La Magnolia" (see map beside).
   

THE TRULLOES

Rural dwellings with circular dome (tholos of micenean origin) builded with flat calcareous stones positioned with skill according to an ancient tradition. The trulloes only exist in a restricted area of the Murge, a carsic basin that stretches from Alberobello to Ostuni in a hundred of kilometers.
Originally their function was that of sheltering for field-workers, refuge of livestock and deposit of agricultural utensils.

more info on: http://www.trulliland.it/en/index.php