27/31 August 2018 CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPEAN FESTIVAL OF EARTH ARCHITECTURE co-f inanced by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund
Earthen architecture
Organizers
Project co-financed by
Recult Memorandului 114 | Timişoara +40 721 314474 asociatiarecult@gmail.com
AFCN (Administratia Fondului Cultural National) Barbu Delavrancea 57 | 011354 Bucharest +40 021 893 3150 contact@afcn.ro
Terrapia
UVT (West University of Timişoara) Piata Libertatii 1, birou 2, parter +40 256 592 391 fundatia.uvt@e-uvt.ro
+40 737 468322 atelierterrapia@gmail.com
Sárkollektíva (Mudcollective Association) Molnár Antal, 4 | Oszkó +36 70 312 20 40 sarkollektiva@gmail.com
Supported by
Institutul Naţional al Patrimoniului Ienăchiță Văcărescu 16 | Bucharest +40 213 366 073; +40 213 365 424 secretariat@patrimoniu.gov.ro
Chiulan House Factory Parc Industrial 12 | 307370 Sacalaz +40 722 225 331 info@chiulan.ro
Essential Experience Take Ionescu, 29A, etajul 3 | Timişoara +40 256 693 030 contact@eetm.ro
Fundația ETA2U Str. Gh. Dima nr. 1 | Timişoara +40 256 277 500
Asociația În comunitate
Printpress Regiment 5 Vânători nr.1 | Timişoara +40 256 221 237 office@printpress.ro
asociatiaincomunitate@gmail.com
Partners
Asociația pentru Promovarea și Dezvoltarea Turismului în județul Timiș Bd. Revoluţiei din 1989, 17 | Timișoara +40 256 406 470 office@turismtimis.ro
Institut Français Timisoara C.D.Loga, 46 | Timișoara +40 256 490 544 accueil@institutfrancais.ro
INCD Urban INCERC Traian Lalescu 2 | Timișoara +40 256 492 998 office@incerctm.ro
Deutsches Kulturzentrum Temeswar Dr. Liviu Gabor, 1 | Timișoara +40 256 407 058 info@ccgtm.ro
Earth&Crafts - Serbia
TVR Timişoara Pestalozzi, 14 A | Timişoara +40 256 499 560 (1) teritorial.timisoara@tvr.ro
zemljanarhitektura@gmail.com
MSZE – Magyar Szalmaepitok Egyesulete (Hungarian Strawbuilders Association)
BETONUL AUTOCOMPACTANT
Fundatia comunitara Timișoara Proclamația de la Timișoara, 1 | Timișoara +40 770 101 707
+36 309 866 727 egyesulet@szalmaepitok.hu
Associazione città della terra cruda - Italia Vittorio Veneto, 40 | Samassi +39 070 938 2084 info@terracruda.org
Ordinul Arhitectilor din Romania Timiș Augustin Pacha, 8 | Timișoara +40 256 487633 secretariat@oartimis.ro
Consolato Italiano di Timișoara 3 August 1919, 2| Timișoara +40 756 056 566 segreteria@consolato-timisoara.eu
Primaria Bogda str. Principala, 9 | Bogda +40 256 231230 primariabogda@yahoo.com
MATERIAL CU IMPACT ECOLOGIC Dr. Ing. Henriette SZILAGYI
INCD URBAN-INCERC SUCURSALA CLUJ-NAPOCA
Event Regio Earth is an itinerary festival about earthen architecture, design and art. The first edition took place in Hungary in 2017 and this year we will organize it in the rural area of Banat. This festival moves every year and connects the earth lovers and specialists from Central and Eastern Europe. Our focus is the earthen common heritage of our region and finding contemporary ways to integrate it in the present socio-cultural dynamics. The main objectives of this edition are a decorative plaster on an old adobe house, built by a carpenter for his family in 1948, and a comunitary pavilion for the villagers, consisting of an earth oven, a bench and some expositional panels. The 2 interventions will be QR coded and included in a cultural route, promoted by the regional association of tourism and the local administration. We also intend to transform this interventions in a model of good practice, for the locals and for the specialists, as a reintrepretation of the existing through experiment. This event is part of the awarness campaign About earth. People and their houses from Banat, coordinated by Alina Negru, Ioana Dorobanțu-Gordon and Alessandro Serra. Regio Earth is followed by the Music Festival Electroruga, organised by our host Essential Experience.
Location Buzad, Bogda, Timiș county, Romania Half an hour from Timișoara, in a hilly landscape, the owners of The Village have transformed two neighbouring traditional households, through a contemporary approach, in the ideal place for teambuildings, events and open air parties. Besides the site itself, the cultural richness of this area consists of : the traditional way of living, multiethnicity aspects, a nearby protected villlage (a circular one, unique in Romania), the royal forests and a well preserved earthen heritage.
Useful informations Accesible by car: route from Timișoara. Internet free (meaning NO internet). Camping conditions with all the utilities. The official languages are English, French and Romanian.
Workshops 10 earthen architecture trainers 5 social development trainers 3 visual artists 15 participants 5 workshops : W1 Basics about earth+ Adobe W2 Earthen Plaster W3 Oven W4 Wattle and daub W5 Local architecture and social development Those who take part in our Festival will find answers to the following questions: - How to build with earth? - How is earth construction regulated ? - How many earthen techniques exists and how do we choose? - Who works with this material today in Romania and neighbouring countries ? - What should we do to promote earth architecture? - What is going on in Hungary, Serbia, Italy, France and Germany ?
Daily schedule 25.08 - Opening, conferences, projections | dialogue with our hosts 26.08 - Tour of the area and participation at the local festivity of Buzad | dialogue with the community 27.08 - Workshop 1 : the recognition and characterization of the earth as a building material + adobe technique (local văiugă) 28.08 - Workshop 2: Plasters and finishes 29.08 - Workshop 3: Oven 30.08 - Workshop 4: Wattle and daub 31.08 - Workshop 5: Local architecture and social development
Alina Negru (Romania)
Architect and founding member of the cultural association REcult, Alina is specialised in earthen construction (DSA Terre, Craterre 2014-2016). Currently she studies and promotes the local constructive practices, during her Phd at the West University of Timișoara. She is also engaged in the awareness campaign About earth. People and their houses from Banat, which promotes, through an interdisciplinary approach, the potential of the rural earthen houses. As previous experience, Alina has developed sensitizing actions on the Romanian traditional and contemporary know-how in view of a crafted architecture, of which are to be mentioned the interactive interdisciplinary expositions on natural resources (earth, wood) and a national architectural competition on the reinterpretation of the traditional constructions.
Coordinator
Alessandro Serra (Italy)
Architect interested in the earthen craftmanship. He is exploring ways to integrate the earth as a construction material in contemporany design, based on his specialization at Craterre and the local know-how. His previous activity consists mainly of decoding the adobe technique of Italy, Morocco and Peru. In Morocco, he was involved in the rehabilitation of the earthen architecture heritage in the oasis of Figuig in view of its inclusion in the World Monument Fund. In Peru he worked to a thesis focused on earthen antiseismic design, inspired by the traditional peruvian architecture. Today he lives in Timișoara, where he has also been involved in educational projects, such as Local Heritage, (re)source of inspiration. This consists in pedagogical activities, focused on the earthen heritage, with youth of all ages and in exploratory visits in the rural communities of Banat.
Coordinator
Ádám Bihari (Hungary)
Ádám is an architectural engineer BSc, architect in urban design MSc at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture. Ex trainee and employee researcher at project Amàco in Villefontaine, France. He is now a candidate for the Phd Studies at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He is the organizer, coordinator and trainer of the “My granfather’s house” project, which consist of practical workshops on the vernacular hungarian architecture for students and for the general public. Also, he is a founding member of SÁRKoLLEKTíVA - Mud-collective.
Coordinator
Flavia Iulia Matei (Romania)
Flavia will highlight different benefits of the social architecture for the Romanian rural communities. Flavia first manifested her interest to the methodologies of earthen social architecture and participatory worksites during her master sat the TU Wien. She attended many specialization courses in Austria and India (Green Architecture, green skills - Austria, BASEhabitat Summer School, Little Flower Community Center) and volunteered for Architecture without Borders / Austria. In the present she coordinates the project A.CASA – housing alternatives in Roșia, in Sibiu county. The aim of this initiative is to offer support to vulnerable families, by building new houses with local materials.
Coordinator
Dragana Kojicic (Serbia)
Dragana will show us the steps needed for the maintenance and rehabilitation of an earthen house. She is an engineer of architecture, specialized in earth architecture at CRAterre, France. While her studies, she did several internships (Syria and Colombia) and several workshops (Rwanda, Spain, France and Bulgaria). In 2010, she founded an association “Fine art and crafts club” in the village of Mošorin, where she started working on the reconstruction of an old rammed earth house, in order to establish there the first Center for earth architecture in Serbia. She’s been organizing theoretical courses and practical workshops and trainings in cooperation with many institutions and organizations and working on several projects of conservation and restoration of earth houses in the region. Since last year, she is the owner of “Earth&Crafts” company for building with earth and other natural materials.
Earthen architecture
Isabella Breda (Italy)
Isabella will introduce us in the fascinating world of decorative earthen plasters. She is graduated in Architecture at IUAV and while working in architectural restoration, she became interested in Architecture using Earth and all the possibilities that this material offers in the artistic field. Isabella studied different ceramic techniques and she examined in depth clay characteristics. Her projects address the interaction between art and architecture which are born from the relationship between human beings and nature. Isabella’s artworks are characterized by a continuous research of an expressive, tactile, emotional language and by graceful shapes.
Earthen architecture
Gergely Barna (Hungary)
Gergely will introduce us in the Japanese earthen techniques. He has been involved in earthen-building technologies ever since his high school years, when he built his first bread-baking oven. After working in several design and artist workshops in Europe, he moved to Japan in 2010 to study traditional Japanese architecture at the Kyoto Institute of Technology, where he conferred his Master of Engineering degree in Architecture and Design, and Doctor of Engineering degree in Design Science. During his studies, he has used every opportunity to collaborate with Japanese traditional craftsmen. He has been working together with plasterer Kobayashi Joji on several restoration projects including National Treasures, such as the Kiyomizu-dera and Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto, through which he got experience in wattle and daub techniques. From 2013 to 2018 he worked as a carpenter at the state restoration project of the Important Cultural Property of Shonenji-temple in Nara. In the spring of 2018 he entered Neomateria Co., Ltd., a Kyoto based startup, where he aims to develop new methods, that can link tradition, ecology and modern technology.
Earthen Architecture
Gabriella Revesz (Hungary)
Gabriella will give us an insight on the subject of earthen plaster as a finish for the strawbale houses. She is both an environmental engineer and an architect that designs strawbale houses and leads the Hungarian Strawbale Association - Magyar Szalmaépítők Egyesülete. The association was established in 2009 in order to spread the idea of strawbale building. Strawbale buildings are not complete without earth plastering and rendering, that is why the association is developing and sharing the knowledge of the earth. The mission of the association is to share and spread the solutions of natural building materials through workshops, based on theoretical and practical knowledge.
Earth | Straw-bale architecture
Jรกnos Gรกspรกr (Hungary)
Jรกnos + will show us how to build an earthen oven. He is a Hungarian craftsman who started working with earth when he built his own home with a technique he learnt from the elders of his village. His enterprise Vรกlyogfal deals with construction of earthen walls and it is specialised in adobe and cob techniques. The technology is the same as 150 years ago and the materials are locals: earth, sand and chaff, from the surrounding area. According to the feedback of his clients, the indoor air quality of the earthen houses is better than that of the costructions built with conventional materials.
Earthen architecture
Etienne Samin (France)
Etienne will demonstrate us the potential of the vegetable fibres mixed with earth and the importance of the natural materials in the insulating industry. He is a French Architect, earthen architecture specialist and LightEarth researcher. He worked in different countries between 20112017 within CRAterre Association and laboratory. His work as a researcher in the project “Disaster Resistant Building Culture : the ways forwards“ focused on risk reduction through social organization and architectural building cultures. Later on, he was the material testing coordinator of the Program PNEEB-TYPHA. This program aimed to reduce the emission of Greenhouse gases through energy efficiency in the building sector in Senegal, notably by using an invasive reed (Typha Australis) and clayish earth, for building and insulation materials production. Currently he is starting in France the development of a cooperative project with associations, territorial agencies and the french National Agency of Housing Improvement. The aim is the massification of the use of natural materials for the thermal rehabilitation of substandard and indecent housing for precarious families.
Earthen architecture
Anne-Lyse Antoine (France)
Anne-Lyse will help us understand the various ways of using earth in the contemporary architecture. She is an architect-urbanist who explores the multiple dimensions of a project, from the territory to the construction material. AnneLyse’s first experience with raw earth happened during the building of the training center for women in El Hamri, Morocco. She then conducted a census of the professional constructives practices and of contemporary buildings with earth in France. She actively participates in the diffusion of the earthen contemporary Architecture. For Anne-Lyse, the earth is a source of creation and corresponds to her ethics, leading us to “built responsibly”.
Earthen architecture
În comunitate (Romania)
În comunitate is a NGO of young people who believe in raising the quality of life, when correlated with the surrounding built environment, by use of participative processes. The NGO’s drive is to become an active instrument in the local socio-urban environment, as well as a intermediate platform between research and action-taking. Its main aims are to stimulate public interest towards endemic urban conditions and to promote citizens’ rights regarding public space. Since its founding in 2015, it has organized and partnered multiple projects targeted at activating and improving local public spaces, by prompting civic engagement, advocating for awareness towards the built environment and encouraging communal involvement in decision making.
Social architecture
Vernalab (Germany)
Vernalab will focus on the role of traditional architecture in the development of rural communities and their territory. Vernalab (Viola Toccafondi, Florian Breipohl, Mรณnika Contreras Saiz, Sarah Medina Weiler) is an experimental laboratory for the development of a new vernacular architecture based in Berlin. The laboratory aims to explore the traditional construction models and methods in relation to the contemporary standards of living and production, in order to establish experimental design and production processes, able to give -in part- a concrete answer to the global environmental crisis. The work of Vernalab focused mainly on small-scale projects based on participatory process and self construction practices. At the moment Vernalab is operating in Colombia with several architectural and research projects.
Social architecture
Ioana Dorobanțu-Gordon (Romania)
Ioana is a Romanian film director, specialized in documentary film at London College of Communication, University of The Arts London. She directed, produced and wrote various TV programmes for the Romanian Public Television, approaching different subjects in the arts field, history, heritage and tourism. The film she made during her MA studies, “The Marble Village”, has been screened in various film festivals andreceived the Best Short Film Award at Open City Docs Fest 2012 (London) and a Special Award at UrbanEye Film Festival 2016 (Bucharest). In 2012, Ioana co-directed “The Soon To Be Lost Paradise – Danube Delta” („Delta Dunării – paradisul aproape pierdut”), a feature length documentary film. In the present, for her doctoral studies, Ioana is researching aspects of ethics in documentary film and visual anthropology. She is also engaged in the awareness campaign About earth. People and their houses from Banat.
https://vimeo.com/ioanadorobantugordon
Image Coordinator
Ovidiu Micsa (Romania)
Ovidiu MicĹ&#x;a is a Romanian architect and photographer. PhD student of the Faculty of Architecture from Timisoara, he researches the perception acquired through photography. He is involved in several post-industrial heritage projects, like The Mine of Ideas Anina. Besides commercial photography, he experiments analogical and alternative photography techniques, he builds selfmade cameras and organises workshops on all of these themes.
www.admostudio.com www.behance.net/OvidiuMicsa Instagram: @admostudio @ovidiumicsa
Photography
Gaia Putzolu (Italy)
Gaia is a young italian illustrator, graduated at Foiso Fois high school in 2016. Currently she is studying Cultural Heritage at the University of Cagliari and also Illustration at Santa Caterina Academy of Art. When she is not studying or drawing, she works as an apprentice in her parentes’ print shop where she often print her works as well. In her free time she likes taking long walks to think and find new ideas but especially she travels as much as possible. The best way she has found to do this is drawing the places that left a mark on her, collecting them in little carnet de voyage.
Illustration
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