Just to let you know about a low impact cordwood round house workshop, with reciprocal roof, in Poland during July 2010. The workshop is lead by Tony Wrench, the author of 'Building a Low Impact Round House'. You can find more about the workshop here http://greenhamlet.com?whatson
As well as the round house workshop there is also a wide variety of smaller, one day workshops held by members of the local Polish community. These include milking with cheese making, making felt, figure drawing and other workshops to come.
This is the first of several workshops each building a small natural structure, each using a different building method. Each is one contribution to a collection of buildings called Green Hamlet.
Regards, Oliver
heinbloed
18 Nov 2009, 10:26 AM
A "35 m2 footprint home" does not exist legally in Poland. There are minimum sizes for buildings to be called legally a "home". Have they got planning permission? Which Polish authority has issued this?
naturalhomes
18 Nov 2009, 8:55 PM
Hi,
Yes we have planning permission. You can read about the planning regulations here, in Polish, see Art 29 on page 18 of 72
You are correct in that these buildings are classed as agricultural not residential, but for our purpose the important thing is the natural structure and materials of the building, not their final use. We are being joined by members of the Polish community who plan to build homes using the same building methods with natural, inexpencive locally sourced, materials.
Regards, Oliver
fridihem
19 Nov 2009, 5:39 PM
Heinbloed.
You certainly dont hold back comments, and rightly so. Your figure of 90% single glazed windows in the UK, is it really that much. Here were are putting in more triple glazed windows, as fast as we can, despite the winters not being so cold, but then again they do the same trick during the summer as well, keep the heat out, and noise of course.
GBP-Keith
19 Nov 2009, 11:12 PM
Heinblood please be more considerate of other users when you post comments in the future please as we do not invite offensive comments however well intentioned you may believe them to be. I have done some editing so that your comments are more palatable but still useful to forum visitors!
GBP-Keith
19 Nov 2009, 11:15 PM
On second thoughts. I have deleted the whole posting as it was not constructive at all.
