The workshop was divided into indoor theoretical sessions, and the hands-on practical sessions where one could exercise what was taught to them. Various natural building techniques, calculations required to build these, testing the ground soil, and on site demonstrations, all of these were a part of the foundation building for them to get started.
Co-facilitator, Kodaikanal
Intutive Natural
Building Workshop
Round stone kodi farms along with Ar. Mukund Iyer, Ar.Soumya Kannan and facilitated a natural building workshop on their land down south, Kodaikanal for a group of 16 participants for diverse educational and processional backgrounds. Ironically, the idea behind the workshop was to make people believe that they could build their own shelters without the need of an architect, while making the process fun, filled with insight and games and also strengthening and building a community.
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Digging, sieving, mixing, filling the bag and ramming, thus building a indoor bench and a bed for our host with a technique called as hyper adobe, was taught to the participants in the span of 8 days.
Awareness about building with locally available materials is the underlying theme for this workshop. Digging earth, collecting nearby elephant poop, using coconut choir and locally made linseed oil. Everything you ever need to build is always available in different forms around your land.
Element games relating to the elements of nature, earth, water, wind, fire are an integral part of Intuitive Natural Building.Workshops. The intent is to connect to the respective element and to understand how each contributes to the process of making your own shelter and the nature of these games help in making the relationship between the participants more intimate thus understanding how a community can enhance the whole process.
The indoor hyper adobe bench with two layers of plastering made by the participants by the end of the workshop continued to form a bed with sculpted light niches.
"Play is the highest form of research"
-Albert Einstein​