Friends we would love to invite you to our first hands-on vault building workshop on our land, 60 miles from one of the most beautiful cities in Europe  - St Pietersburg

Zoya and I fell inspired and and honoured with host you in our homeland and share what it has to offer.

 

This will be an unusual building event mixed with a loads of cultural outings as we really want you to experience the beauty, rich traditions as well as dome & vault architecture of our historic city.

 

Shortly Zoya will share the information about our outings and I will speak about 2 types of roofs that we’ll learn to build that will cover any natural building.

 

We are going to be building my latest Wautillarium, to be used as an interactive edu-centre for youth and uni students. More info about the edu-center can be found on Bio-Veda’s webpage.

 

I will prepare all the rammed tire foundations as well as the Hyperadobe walls. Together we will create a horizontal binding beam for the earthen vault as well as mount the sockets for the second room that will hold the timber arches. 

The one vault will be made using stabilised earth with 20% cement and 80 % earth. It will be using a form work method that I learned  from CalEarth institute of land Art and Architecture in California. 

 

The other vault will be a wooden one that I recently build in Siberia. 

 

I see these two structures and our collaborative natural building workshop as the together, the meeting of the East and the West

 

This will not be a heavy duty strenuous building workshop, but rather the craftsmanship of unique building technologies, literally that are the roof over your head 😉 So you are not going to be pounding tires or ramming the sandbags as all of that will be prepared prior to your arrival.

You’ll learn how to weave the mesh on the formwork and then pour the stabilised earth that we will prepare in my cement mixer. After that we’ll weave the diagonal timber planks on the DIY arches that were will construct. 

 

You will also learn how to finish the vaults up with waterproofing using the bitumen membrane. I will also show you an alternative low cost method using the super adobe bags impregnated with bitumen emulsion, that I used on our domes in South Africa.

Insulation, the important clay lock, and now the roof of our hobbit edu centre will be ready to receive plants

 

We should be able to start the glazing so you can see how to connect and fuze a glass facade with a an earthen vault as well as the timber one. We might not finish the glazing as our cultural and architectural are just as important for your inspiration. 

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This celebration is for all those who want to:

 

Learn to build an affordable, lo-tech and incredibly fast to construct vault. The home you'll learn to build is developed  to stay under the strict Canadian and US building code radar so you can build in your own homeland without having to submit plans (the cost of the 333 sq. ft. vault, in the pic above, was 1000 USD) 

                                                            

Get to experience the cultural traditions of our country: 

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1. We are going to visit a traditional village home with a "banya" experience including an oak leafed "venichek";

2. Mouth watering traditional Russian food

3. Boat trip through the Grand Neva River and water canals of St Pietersburg

4.  Picnics with a fire and a roasted veggies in the forest with tra

5. Outing to "Hermitage" museum, symphonic orchestra and ballet  

 

Learn the details about immigration to our homeland,

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1. getting citizenship

2. opportunities to realise business ideas such as 3D printed property development business to meet the ever growing demand of people wanting to live in fascist-free countries

3. purchasing your own private property

4. meeting of other permaculture communities

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Our natural building gathering in Russia is all about: 

 

Outings, forums and friendships, to create opportunities for collaboration, mutual support and inspiration.

 

We are looking forward to be finally meeting you in person, in our friendly country. 

 

The approximate price of the two week seminar will be 1600 USD including nice accommodation, all the food, travel to & from site as well as transfers to & from airport.

 

Budget for 16-50 USD per outing incl. transport (theatre being most expensive everything else is really affordable due to the exchange rate).

 

Outings are optional.  We are now awaiting for YOUR feed back and interest should you want to attend our live seminar. In our telegram group I am posting visa information and any other updates. Once we get 10 interested people we will get it rolling. Please leave a comment in our telegram group. Approximate dates are mid August or early September 🍂 

Alternatively we can get it going even earlier should there be a group of at least 10 people.

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If you are interested in attending fill in the form below