BUILDING FESTIVAL
2024
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SUSTAINABILITY
AND REGENERATIVE MATERIALS?
Come and discover them with us during our Building Festival
19 April_______________05 May.
You can come to follow lectures, be part of workshops or spontaneously start helping out with the ongoing construction of the pavilion in the Pastorie garden. No previous experience is needed, unless stated otherwise. Everyone is welcome and we hope to see many of you soon.
Our site is located at :
Helzoldstraat 5, Helchteren
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A cosy get-together around a campfire, where we can dream ahead about the festival. There will be drinks and bites, marshmallows and a campfire.
Everyone is welcome!
Shakemaking. During this workshop you will learn how to make traditional roof tiles from wood logs, the roof tiles that will be used in our pavillion.
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During our lunchbreak we will discuss how shakes are used in architecture, through a couple of examples and applications of shakes.
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Have you ever seen the buildings around you as material treasures? It is said that taking a walk is the best remedy to come back to a problem and think outside of the box. Quite literally, we will take you on a walk past different buildings on the Noord-Zuid-axis, and rediscover the potential of these hidden treasures.
During this workshop you will learn to build an oven out of earth bricks, while personalising them with your names. From dust to brick, from brick to masonry, from masonry to an oven.
This workshop with Alejandro Haiek is intended for PhD students. It will seek new forms of correlation between social landscapes, ecosystem services, and post-industrial geographies, engaging with the agents as artisctic translations.
Architecture is not merely about static structures, but a dynamic interplay between experimentation, adaptation and the pursuit of inclusivity. A lecture by Alejandro Haiek.
During this workshop you will learn to build an oven out of earth bricks, while personalising them with your names. From dust to brick, from brick to masonry, from masonry to an oven.
In this workshop you will learn how to create a new earth plaster by recycling the old lime plaster of the Pastorie. Get an insight and have a chance to practice all the steps of the process, from harvesting the old plaster, to creating the new mixture, until plastering the wall.
During this workshop you will learn to build an oven out of earth bricks, while personalising them with your names. From dust to brick, from brick to masonry, from masonry to an oven.
In this workshop you will learn how to create a new lime plaster by recycling the old lime plaster of the Pastorie. Get an insight and have a chance to practice all the steps of the process, from harvesting the old plaster, to creating the new mixture, until plastering the wall.
The daily path of the pastor, where he walked and prayed, becomes the path of the people of Helchteren. We will decorate stones together, all are welcome. With these stones we will then retrace the path into the grounds of the garden. Tracing a memory of the past in order to create a work of land art for the future.
We are excited to host a film night surrounding earth building in Morocco, one of the places where earth construction and craft are still very present.
Join us for a tagine dinner to set the perfect morrocan enviroment.
Bring your favorite dish, and share a moment together to close up the festival.
Bring a piece of textile and get your personal festival souvenir!
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