Natural Building Internship

What is Natural Building

Natural building is all about reconnecting with our ancestral roots and our natural environment. Building beautiful, durable, healthy and spiritually uplifting buildings as well as building nurturing relationships with people and the planet along the way.

What is this Natural Building Internship is about?

This internship aims to provide comprehensive knowledge, practical skills and experience for building a house using natural material locally found in the area. You will be involved in lots of hands on work on the Gaia Ashram project during this two weeks program. Our aim is that participants will leave motivated, empowered & with plenty of practical experience. The mainframe content includes;

House design and designing for energy efficiency
Using natural and ecological building materials which include natural material locally found in the area, reused and recycled materials
How to build a house step by step
Additional knowledge to Natural building You will be learning about dry composting toilets for the hands on project to build a dry composting toilet

Practical work during the internship

Apart from having the knowledge about the different techniques of Green Building or Natural Building, this internship includes lots of practical learning or learning by doing. The combination of material and experiential learning will help interns to walk away being empowered with a lot of knowledge and practical skills.
design
wallup
window2
fairy
bricks
wall
wattle&daub

What will we be building?

Interns will be building a small house for one of Gaia Ashram long term community members. We will use earth as the main building materials, incorporating recycled wood, straw, rice husk, saw dust, glass bottles etc. By working on this building project, interns will gain a hands – on learning experience in:

Making Adobe bricks
Building walls with Ado