MH Registration
Register for MicroHouse Workshops
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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
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
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Microhouse 2 Development Board Link
Chris Reinhart Log Link