Touraterre _ Workshop ‘le village’_ 8 a 29 de Setembro 2012, Provence, França

Pelo segundo ano consecutivo a Touraterre organiza um workshop relacionado com a arquitectura de terra contemporânea. Em 2012, irá decorrer entre os dias 8 e 29 de Setembro, em Saumanes, França. As inscrições terminam a 1 de Julho.

_Design and build a small project out of raw earth;

_Touraterre: committed to traditional technics and earth building;

_The event: a youth encounter with raw earth architecture in the south of France;

_The goal: Imagining, designing and building a small project out of mud. The students will work for two weeks on the projects, learn about traditional building techniques and the material;

_Experimenting and working in an international context;

_The workshop will take place in Cavaillon, at the site of a local association “la croisée des regards”;

_The workshop is meant to be experimental and didactic, and will be supervised by professionals of diverse backgrounds and specialists in mud construction;

REGISTRATION FOR 2012 UNTIL THE 1st of JULLY. Please send a statement of interest, your portfolio or any questions to: touraterre@gmail.com or on www.touraterre.com

In september 2011 the first Touraterre workshop around the question of contemporary earth architecture and took place in Provence. The workshop was hosted by the 'association Le Village' in Cavaillon. During two weeks 18 european students worked on 5 projects. Each developping the question of contextual contemporean earth architecture in Provence.