Learn
Earth Plaster
June
6-15th, 2012 Santa Barbara, CA
Dear Friends of Earth:
You're invited to come participate in a round of interesting,
educational earth
building at the Oasis Design research site on San Marcos Pass, starting
Wednesday, June 6th, 8th, 1/2 day on the 9th, free day on the 10th,
then Monday the 11th through Friday the
15th midday.
We're going to be working with master plasterer Kieran Fitzsimmons on
some really interesting projects
designed collaboratively by Massey Burke, Kieran, Betty Siemans, Art
Ludwig, and others.
The site in Santa Barbara has hundreds of
original integrated design innovations under development, several of
which have been recognized as best practices worldwide. (All designs
are published into the public domain via our books and web site,
none
are patented).
There is no cost to learn from these craftspeople who teach workshops
costing hundreds of dollars.
Here we are following the successful template of earlier plaster and
cob fests where work is traded for learning in a fun environment to
create a mutually beneficial, no cost learning opportunity. There's
space to stay here and excellent organic food will be provided.
When it gets too hot we'll head to the creek. There's a drum circle
nearby on the 9th. On the afternoon of the 15th
through Sun the 17th we're headed
to the Live
Oak
Festival if
you'd care to join us.
Please RSVP ASAP. The work is more detailed this time, and
there is limited space and more Kieran attention. Priority will be
given to people able to commit for more days and/or who have more
experience.
Art
oasis@oasisdesign.net
805 967-9956
The work is mostly detailed finish plaster, interior and
exterior,
plus some design and modeling of future projects and performance
review of past projects. Here's our list:
- Final trimming and exterior finish plaster on a 10 x 14' cob/
heavy clay straw loft
- Fire resistance retrofit of trim around an exterior door
- Installation of tempered glass and fire resistant trim around a
stained glass window
- Interior rough and finish plaster on the curved wall of a spiral
staircase
- Experimental extremely fire resistant adobe-shielded,
metal-framed exterior fire doors
- Rocket stove plaster touch up
- Models and testing protocol for earthquake resistant, charming
cob cottage/ impregnable fire bunkers
- Design for ferrocob office remodel
- Design for automatic fire shutters
Many
features and natural building techniques will be encountered in this
project:
- Extremely fire safe detailing, including windows, skylights,
deck, railings, ventilation, eaves, rafter tails, etc.
- Lightweight construction for earthquake
- Highly space-efficient architecture in a retrofit; the small
space is built like a boat
- High performance passive solar & daylighting
- Cob
- Straw clay
- Ferrocement
- Carpentry in reused & site milled wood