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TECHNOLOGIES AND SELF-BUILDING WORKSHOP – May, 23rd-26th 2023
Alessio Battistella and Valerio Marazzi held the workshop at beautiful venue OffCampus CascinaNosedo of Politecnico di Milano.
The students had the chance to explore the rammed earth technique, an ancient method that has been revived recently as a sustainable building method, the Quincha, a traditional construction system that uses, fundamentally, wood and cane or giant reed forming an earthquake-proof framework that is covered in mud and plaster and Adobe, a kind of clay used as a building material. The students also grappled with COB, a natural building material made from subsoil, water, fibrous organic material (typically straw), and sometimes lime.
STARTING EVENT – 16th November 2022
