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April 18-20 and 18-23

Overview

This 5-day workshop empowers participants to create their own MicroHouse through hands-on, experiential training reinforced by conceptual learning in basic sustainable design. The central activity of the workshop is the construction of a MicroHouse shell using open source equipment including a tractor, soil pulverizer, and brick press. Extreme manufacturing concepts of parallel processing and prefabrication are applied to achieve rapid on-site assembly. Philosophy of open source development is also emphasized, and the participants become more than just builders, they become active collaborators in the MicroHouse evolution.

Learning Outcomes

Design

• fundamentals of passive solar design and natural ventilation
• building envelope basics and importance of detailing
• understanding of thermal mass and insulation in relation to performance
• open source development philosophy
• hand-sketching basics

Construction

• understanding and applied safe use of basic construction tools
• CEB construction techniques
• basic framing methods
• installation of doors and windows
• basics of electrical and plumbing work
• parallel processing for rapid building

Documentation

• Sketchup basics
• using Trovebox and Dozuki for instruction manual creation
• real-time documentation process

Location

Factor e Farm, Maysville, MO

Times

Workshop begins at 5:00pm on Friday evening, and the two-day option lasts until Sunday at 5pm, the five-day option lasts until Wednesday at 5pm.

Cost

• $195 two-day
• $445 five-day

Registration Form

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