EARTHSHIP 1 DAY WORKSHOP!
18 OCT 2020 (4 Oct is rained out!)
IRONBANK, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
$50 GENERL ADMISSION
$35 CONCESSION AND STUDENTS
$0 (FREE!) IF YOU HAVE BEEN TO AN EARTHSHIP ECO HOMES WORKSHOP BEFORE OR ARE GOING TO EARTHSHIP INMAN VALLEY WORKSHOP!!!
* Vegetarian LUNCH provided
* Learn about Earthships and have a go!
* Earthship tour
* tyre pounding
* cob stomping
* bottle brick making
stomping cob at Jenni and Jamie's Earthship, Ironbank SA 2020
EARTHSHIPS
Earthships are super energy and water efficient homes that are typically off-grid but can also be grid connected. This means little to no water and electricity bills plus the empowering feeling of self-sufficiency!
They are made with natural materials such as earth and straw and up-cycled materials such as tyres and bottles.
An array of amazing and beautiful design features integrate ingeniously to ensure that winter sun gets in and summer sun stays out, resulting in glorious indoor living conditions without the need for an air-conditioner.
A beautiful indoor food producing garden is also part of the typical (non-tropical) Earthship design.
Earthship construction methods are easy to do yourself so you can save money by putting in your own labour and only pay the builder to do the stuff you can't do. It is ideal for owner-builders.
Earthships are super energy and water efficient homes that are typically off-grid but can also be grid connected. This means little to no water and electricity bills plus the empowering feeling of self-sufficiency!
They are made with natural materials such as earth and straw and up-cycled materials such as tyres and bottles.
An array of amazing and beautiful design features integrate ingeniously to ensure that winter sun gets in and summer sun stays out, resulting in glorious indoor living conditions without the need for an air-conditioner.
A beautiful indoor food producing garden is also part of the typical (non-tropical) Earthship design.
Earthship construction methods are easy to do yourself so you can save money by putting in your own labour and only pay the builder to do the stuff you can't do. It is ideal for owner-builders.
workshop photos from Earthship Ironbank over the years 2013-2017
THE WORKSHOP
This 1 day workshop is designed to introduce you to the Earthship concept and give you some hands-on experience so that you can evaluate how Earthship may be appropriate for you. It is intended for reasonably fit and healthy people capable of getting physical on a construction site. If this is not your cup of tea then please consider booking in for a guided tour of Earthship Ironbank or a BnB stay.
The Workshop includes:
A guided tour of Earthship Ironbank (Australia’s first council approved Earthship). This will cover all the key Earthship concepts:
Earthship Construction
THE VENUE(S)
Workshop venue: 360 Ironbank Road, Ironbank SA. There is a beautiful existing two storey mudbrick home, the home of Jenni and Jamie the hosts of the workshop, with a dam and lots of wild garden space. This is where we are building an Earthship inspired extension that will provide two extra bedrooms, a bathroom, an open plan kitchenette and lounge room. The passive solar design incorporates tyre walls (approx 500 tyres), strawbale walls, cob walls, earthtubes, and greenhouse with a corrugated iron roof and concrete slab floor.
Tour Venue: Earthship Ironbank is a bed and breakfast in Ironbank in the Adelaide Hills, 40min drive from the CBD and airport, collocated with Marty and Zoe Freney’s strawbale home on 4 acres where they have established a permaculture property. This pioneering project has broken new ground in Australia, inspiring many other similar projects. It demonstrates that you can get council approval for an “Earthship”, it shows how the Earthship can be adapted to suit local conditions (and regulations) and it enables people to experience off-grid Earthship living.
THE TUTORS
Martin Marty Freney is one of world's most enthusiastic and prolific Earthship builders, designers and researcher. In fact Michael Reynolds, Earthship god-father, refers to Marty as "the data guy". Marty is the designer and owner-builder of Earthship Ironbank, Australia’s first council approved Earthship. When he is not teaching product design and sustainable design at the University of South Australia (part time) he is advocating and researching Earthships. He has designed numerous Earthships throughout Australia via his sustainable design consultancy Earthship Eco Homes. He has visited Taos, New Mexico, USA - home of the Earthship - twice, once as an intern in 2008 and a second time in 2011 as part of his PhD which investigated the thermal performance of Earthships and their eco footprint compared to other types of housing. He has built Earthships with Michael Reynolds of Earthship Biotecture in the USA, Indonesia and Australia. He is a wealth of information on Earthships and natural building.
Charles Charlie Chuck Swain has worked on a variety of Earthship projects throughout Australia and in the USA (Earthship Biotecture Academy). He is a longtime supporter of Earthship Ironbank returning regularly to help complete the build and to run workshops. He is now gearing up as an Earthship and permaculture educator. He is also a wealth of information on Earthships, natural building, aquaponics and dogs. If lots of people enrol Charles will be there; otherwise it will be Marty flying solo.
THE HOSTS
Jenni and Jamie will be the proud owners of this new Earthship inspired building – they live on site in a mudbrick house and look forward to the extra space that their Earthship extension will provide. They show their appreciation through the delicious and nutritious food they serve to the hungry Earthship builders.
WHAT TO BRING
You will need to bring some safety gear and equipment:
PARKING
Please park on the roadside so that we can keep the driveway clear.
THE SCHEDULE
Sunday 18 Oct 2020
0900 safety induction/training on site at 360 Ironbank Rd, Ironbank
1000 tyre wall construction
1230 LUNCH
1330 tyre wall construction
1600 bottle brick making
1700 tour of Earthship Ironbank with drinks and nibbles
1800 end of workshop
PRICES
GENERAL ADMISSION
$50 (+ booking fee)
CONCESSION AND STUDENT
$35 (+ booking fee)
FREE TICKET FOR EXPERIENCED EARTHSHIPPERS
$0 if you have already purchased a ticket to Earthship Inman Valley WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 2020.
Consider this as an optional day of training!
Also free if you have been to an Earthship Eco Homes workshop before!!!
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This 1 day workshop is designed to introduce you to the Earthship concept and give you some hands-on experience so that you can evaluate how Earthship may be appropriate for you. It is intended for reasonably fit and healthy people capable of getting physical on a construction site. If this is not your cup of tea then please consider booking in for a guided tour of Earthship Ironbank or a BnB stay.
The Workshop includes:
- Earthship Construction - more details below
- Vegetarian Lunch
- Earthship Tour - more details below
- Drinks and nibbles
A guided tour of Earthship Ironbank (Australia’s first council approved Earthship). This will cover all the key Earthship concepts:
- Natural & up-cycled construction materials
- Passive/natural heating and cooling
- Off-grid power, water and sewage treatment
- Food production
- Council approval
- Design
- Structural engineering
- Energy assessment
- Construction timeline
- Costs
Earthship Construction
- Learn the art of “tyre pounding” using tyres and earth as inexpensive, sustainable building materials!
- Learn how to make beautiful bottle bricks which bring colour and light into your home!
THE VENUE(S)
Workshop venue: 360 Ironbank Road, Ironbank SA. There is a beautiful existing two storey mudbrick home, the home of Jenni and Jamie the hosts of the workshop, with a dam and lots of wild garden space. This is where we are building an Earthship inspired extension that will provide two extra bedrooms, a bathroom, an open plan kitchenette and lounge room. The passive solar design incorporates tyre walls (approx 500 tyres), strawbale walls, cob walls, earthtubes, and greenhouse with a corrugated iron roof and concrete slab floor.
Tour Venue: Earthship Ironbank is a bed and breakfast in Ironbank in the Adelaide Hills, 40min drive from the CBD and airport, collocated with Marty and Zoe Freney’s strawbale home on 4 acres where they have established a permaculture property. This pioneering project has broken new ground in Australia, inspiring many other similar projects. It demonstrates that you can get council approval for an “Earthship”, it shows how the Earthship can be adapted to suit local conditions (and regulations) and it enables people to experience off-grid Earthship living.
THE TUTORS
Martin Marty Freney is one of world's most enthusiastic and prolific Earthship builders, designers and researcher. In fact Michael Reynolds, Earthship god-father, refers to Marty as "the data guy". Marty is the designer and owner-builder of Earthship Ironbank, Australia’s first council approved Earthship. When he is not teaching product design and sustainable design at the University of South Australia (part time) he is advocating and researching Earthships. He has designed numerous Earthships throughout Australia via his sustainable design consultancy Earthship Eco Homes. He has visited Taos, New Mexico, USA - home of the Earthship - twice, once as an intern in 2008 and a second time in 2011 as part of his PhD which investigated the thermal performance of Earthships and their eco footprint compared to other types of housing. He has built Earthships with Michael Reynolds of Earthship Biotecture in the USA, Indonesia and Australia. He is a wealth of information on Earthships and natural building.
Charles Charlie Chuck Swain has worked on a variety of Earthship projects throughout Australia and in the USA (Earthship Biotecture Academy). He is a longtime supporter of Earthship Ironbank returning regularly to help complete the build and to run workshops. He is now gearing up as an Earthship and permaculture educator. He is also a wealth of information on Earthships, natural building, aquaponics and dogs. If lots of people enrol Charles will be there; otherwise it will be Marty flying solo.
THE HOSTS
Jenni and Jamie will be the proud owners of this new Earthship inspired building – they live on site in a mudbrick house and look forward to the extra space that their Earthship extension will provide. They show their appreciation through the delicious and nutritious food they serve to the hungry Earthship builders.
WHAT TO BRING
You will need to bring some safety gear and equipment:
- Work boots
- Gloves (leather riggers gloves or ninja gloves are ideal)
- Work clothes
- Sun screen
- Sun glasses (and/or safety glasses)
- Hat
- Water bottle
- Change of clothes/shoes
PARKING
Please park on the roadside so that we can keep the driveway clear.
THE SCHEDULE
Sunday 18 Oct 2020
0900 safety induction/training on site at 360 Ironbank Rd, Ironbank
1000 tyre wall construction
1230 LUNCH
1330 tyre wall construction
1600 bottle brick making
1700 tour of Earthship Ironbank with drinks and nibbles
1800 end of workshop
PRICES
GENERAL ADMISSION
$50 (+ booking fee)
CONCESSION AND STUDENT
$35 (+ booking fee)
FREE TICKET FOR EXPERIENCED EARTHSHIPPERS
$0 if you have already purchased a ticket to Earthship Inman Valley WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 2020.
Consider this as an optional day of training!
Also free if you have been to an Earthship Eco Homes workshop before!!!
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- No refunds – please be sure before you sign up and make payment. You may transfer your place in the workshop to another person but your payment is non-refundable.
- In the event of bushfire or other unforeseeable event the workshop will be cancelled and 95% of the ticket price will be refunded. Your travel expenses will NOT be refunded.
- In the event of extreme weather the workshop will be postponed and rescheduled. Check your email for updates. If you are not able to attend on the rescheduled date a 95% refund will be given upon request. Or you can retain your ticket and use it for a future workshop.
- Participants who are unable to comply with instructions regarding the safe and the orderly running of the workshop will not be allowed to participate and will forfeit their payment for the workshop.
- All participants must complete the online registration form and agree to the terms and conditions.
- If you are under 18 years of age you must be accompanied by a parent or guardian who has also purchased a ticket to the workshop.
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Please use the TRYBOOKING online system to buy a ticket. Click the button below.
It is NOT necessary to print and present your ticket at the workshop.