Participants

The project is located in a rural area , in an ecosystem of Paramo at 2850m.a.s.l. in the coordinates 4° 56 ‘0 “N, 74° 11’ 0” W. It is a municipality located in the savannah of Bogotá, 38 km west of the Colombian capital, the average temperature: 13 degrees Celsius, humidity 70%. The conceptual axis is the sustainable design, dialoguing with the place; some parameters were raised under the analysis of the life cycle (LCA) of the materials and procedures. An ecological premise is the consumption of natural resources. The use of energy and water is rationed, and the emissions generated by its components are evaluated and executed in order to see a work with low impact on the ecosystem. A new approach is the roofing of low environmental cost, applying the form like structure like professional search. There are six forms of roof design without form-work, in two types of blocks, raw and baked, a technique developed in Mexico. There are two houses intended to disseminate technological innovations in a contemporary design and construction, with ecological vision, thinking about clean production, from the execution, use, useful life to the reincorporation to the environment in its final phase.

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Matthieu Pedergnana

Matthieu has been an architect and natural builder for the past ten years. He discovered the beauty of natural materials and the downsides of conventional building while volunteering in France on “social construction sites”. Since then, he has travelled in different parts of the world and taught himself natural construction, then settled in Turkey and started his PhD in METU on earth plasters for strawbale walls. He is the architect of the Tezekevleri project, and many others in Turkey where he also teaches in workshops on a regular basis.

Betül Ergün

Betül Ergün is an architect and builder specialized in plastering. She has been involved in various workshops and construction projects across Turkey, working primarily with natural materials. She was a primary activator of the Tezekevleri project on which she worked over four months.

Xavier Allard

Xavier Allard is a self-taught natural builder based in Turkey. He has worked on multiple building projects in Turkey since 2013 such as earthbag, straw-bale, slip- straw, and adobe buildings. Along with Matthieu Pedergnana they organized a series of workshops focused on ecological building. Xavier worked over seven months on the Tezekevleri Houses project in 2016 and 2017.

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Euzen architecture

Theodora Kyriafini Fotini Lymperiadou & Co. L.p.

International award winning architecture company creating spaces that offer wellness, health and joy through sustainable, ecological and holistic design. ‘euZen’ derives from the ancient Greek ‘ΕΥ ΖΗΝ’ which means ‘well lived, harmonious life’. Founded in 2006 in Thessaloniki by Theodora Kyriafini, Dipl.Ing. Technische Hochschule Darmstadt – Germany and Fotini Lymperiadou, DipArch University College London U.K.

Zeta Chrysafaki

Zeta Chrysafaki studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens. She received a Masters Degree in “EcoSustainable Architecture“ from the Technical University of Bologna Italy. Since 2007 she has lived and worked in Chania. She has expertise in bioclimatic design and ecological constructions with natural materials and since 2013 has run together with architect Apostolos Mousourakis the studio of sustainable architectural design, “Southern Architects”. She has participated in international experimental construction workshops and is a member of Piliko team.

Southern Architects

Apostolos Mousourakis Zeta Chrysafaki The architectural laboratory founded by the architects Apostolos Mousourakis and Zeta Chrysafaki has been running from 2013 in the city of Chania in Crete. The application of bioclimatic design principles and the usage of natural materials in architecture are the main activities of the laboratory. www.southernarchitects.gr

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Antonia Diamantaki

I studied Architecture at the University of Greenwich, London, UK from 1998 to 2004 gaining my Bachelor and Diploma degree. My experience in sustainability includes studying Sustainability and Design and examining the principles of Sustainability and Environmental Design and the integration of environmental design with architectural and urban design. Since 2009 I have been part of Piliko team through which my knowledge in building with natural materials has gone from theory to actual practice and hands on projects.

Eleftheria Tsakanika

Civil engineer, Αss. Professor, School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens Member of 28 scientific national and international committees and organizations for the protection of historical timber structures and the design of new timber structures. Participation in 24 Greek and European research programs. Author and co-author of books and educational notes and of ~40 papers in peer-reviewed proceedings of International and National conferences and journals. Teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate studies courses concerning modern and historical timber structures. Professional activity: studies and applied work of ~80 modern timber and steel structures and of ~44 restoration projects.

Architectural Studio 149: D. Philippitzis & Associates

Dimitris Filippitzis finished the architecture school of Athens (N.T.U.A.) in 1980. In March 1982 he graduated from the University of Toronto.In 1985 he settled in Volos (Greece) as a freelancer with the main object of studying and supervising private works.Since 2000 he has been teaching at the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly the courses “Natural Building” and “From the idea ... to construction”.

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Thodoris Marinis

Thodoris Marinis graduated in 2003 from the National Technical University of Athens as structural engineer and in 2006 from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with MSc in Conservation of Monuments & Sites. He has worked mostly in restoration projects from archaeological remains to neoclassical buildings, stone and adobe brick construction with earth mortars, rammed earth and timber.

Georgios Voudouris

Giorgos Voudouris was born in 1971 in Zevgolatio, Corinthia. He studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and received his MSc from the same university in Urban Planning and Planning. During his years in Athens, he collaborated with many study and planning offices. Since 2003 he has returned to Zevgolatio, where he maintains until today an architectural office. He has collaborated with the Prefecture of Corinth, at Urban Planning and Planning and the Technical Services Studies. He has published his works as well as articles on natural building.

Varvara Valtchanova

Varvara is Bulgarian. She grew up in Bulgaria and Algeria and has studied architecture in Grenoble, France, where she graduated in 2002. Afterwards she specialized in earth construction at the Research Center for Earthen Architecture (CRATerre) in Grenoble. Since 2004 she has worked on the renovation of a hamlet in the Rhodopi mountains with a team of local craftsmen and volunteers from all over Europe. She regularly organizes workshops on earth building techniques in Bulgaria and promotes the use of local and accessible materials. She has edited the book “Earth building” in Bulgarian and is working on a second book: “Natural earth and lime plasters”. Blog: www.zemnostroitelstvo.net Site: www.rahovitza.org

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AK0

Architettura a Kilometro Zero

AK0 Architettura a Kilometro Zero carries out experimental activity, teaching, research and professional practice. Since 2014 the team has operated as a non profit association in the field of sustainable architecture. The architecture projects aim at combining local materials with global knowledge.

Giannfranco Conti

Materia Prima

Architect. Since 1983 has dealt with earthen architecture. In 1994 founded the Permanent Documentation Center on Earthen Building (CeDTerra) in Casalincontrada (CH), Abruzzo. In 1996 promoted the Census of earthen building to the whole of Abruzzo. Technical consultant and member of the Scientific Committee of the International Association of the Earth City. Author of numerous publications on the subject. With the architects Stefania Giardinelli, Lucia Secondo and Alessandro Vitale, works with the group called Materia Prima studio of architecture.

Paolo Robazza

Beyond Architecture Group

Architect. Beyond Architecture Group coordinator. He deals with architectural and urban planning with particular attention to environmental and social sustainability. Through the use of experimental technologies and natural materials, his projects become opportunities for innovation, sharing and research. He has international experience in redevelopment projects, even in emergency settings, with participatory method and collective self construction systems.

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Sergio Sabbadini

An architect specialized in “ecological and alternative technologies in construction” who has been working in the Centre Européen Ecologique Terre Vivante (France). He founded in 2003 the study of architecture Disstudio.it. As a freelancer he specializes in earthen construction and hemp techniques, on a national and international scale. Consultant for several Italian companies for the development of innovative bio-building products. He is a european teacher – ECVET . He has been in charge of the “earth construction” sector for A.N.A.B. since 1996. He has been an adjunct Professor at the Politecnico di Milano since 2008 teaching technology and developing research on bio-building techniques and technologies and participates in the working group on LCA.

EikE Roswag

ZRS ARchitekten

Prof. Eike Roswag-Klinge trained as a carpenter in Hessen before studying Architecture at the Technical University,Berlin. In 1998 he co-ordinated a series of design build projects in Mexico under the guidance of Prof. Dipl.-ing Ingrid Goetz. After the foundation of ZRS in 2003, the Meti School ‘Handmade in Bangladesh’ was recognised with the Aga Khan Prize in 2007 bringing with it international recognition. Since then Eike has completed a fellowship at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 2013 and was awarded the prestigious kAiROS culture Prize in 2015. In 2017 he became Professor at the technical University in Berlin where he heads the natural Building Lab. Eike is a member of the BDA and upholds numerous international teaching and lecture commitments.

Sjap Holst

Nationality: NL 1983: Building Engineer TU-Eindhoven.

1985: ECO-DESIGN, architectural office for healthy sustainable building. 1989: registration in Dutch Architects Register number 1.890117.240.

2004: docent at Faculty of Architecture Technical University Delft Memberships: Association for Integral Biological Architecture VIBA;

International Center for Earth Construction CRAterre;

Architect cooperative StroApp.

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Boris Bouchet

ARCHITECTES & URBANISTES

He opened his own agency in 2007 and he is also a teacher in ENSA at Montpellier. He was awarded the prize “Première Oeuvre de l’Equerre d’Argent” in 2013, then was laureate of the AJAP and the “Palmares des Jeunes Urbanistes” in 2014. Finally, he is also a curator to the Venice Biennale.

L’ Archi Violette

Marie-Pierre BERNARD and Elise LAMBERT, Associated Architects. Our work is characterized by an approach that aims to match functions, needs and constraints by using virtuous materials for a maximum of comfort.

Voltes Cooperativa d’ architectura

Voltes is a cooperative, developing projects of architecture and urbanism with a special approach to sustainability, rehabilitation and new alternatives of housing. Always based on participatory methodologies that empower people to define the spaces we inhabit. Our vision is also always based on a creative and positive view towards the future

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Rosario Etchebarne

An architect graduated in 1982 from the Faculty of Architecture – Udelar - URUGUAY. Has specialized in earthen architecture since 1994. Member of the Iberian-American network Proterra from the beginning in the year 2002. Member of the Unesco Cathedra. Earth architectures, constructive cultures, sustainable development. Teaching reference, coordinator of the training courses given by UTU (University of Labor of Uruguay) in different parts of the country. Director of the architecture studio TIERRA AL SUR.

www.tierraalsur.com

Rodolfo Rotondaro

Architect, Máster CRATerre and PhD of the National University of Tucumán. Director of a scientific research program on Earth Architecture (Buenos Aires University and CONICET). Work includes applied projects and training concerning Social Technology development in poor urban and rural contexts. Adobe, rammed earth, ECB and filled earth are the main earth techniques.

Raúl Adolfo Sandoval Tejada

Architect, University Mayor of San Andrés La Paz-Bolivia

Member of the Ibero-American Construction Network with Land - PROTERRA

College of Architects of Bolivia - Reg. Nal. No. 1532

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Gernot Minke

Emeritus professor, led at the University of Kassel, Germany, the research laboratory for experimental building, where he has headed 50 research projects built with clay, straw bales, green roofs and low-cost housing. He has been a speaker at over 60 international congresses. His Handbook “Earth Building“ is available in 11 languages, the “Manual Straw Bale Construction“ in 8 languages and “Green Roofs” in 6 languages.

Jorge Broughton Wainer

For 21 years I have developed in Chile a building system based on straw and clay bales, managing ” ͞ biology ” in the method of achievement. More than 30 households have been built with this technique (10.000 m2 in total), many of them before the 2010 earthquake, and they suffered no damage at all.

Hugo Pereira

HUGO & DIEGO PEREIRA

Name: Hugo Pereira Gigogne (15.09.52)1977 Architect University of Chile, Maximum Distinction 2000 “Fermín Vivaceta” Award, Architects Association2015-2017 General Coordinator Ibero-American Network PROTERRA. Past president of Technology Committee, Architects Association. Professor UTEM (Metropolitan-Technological University) Santiago, Chile. ICO- MOS Chile and ISCEAH-ICOMOS (International scientific committee on earthen architectural heritage) member. http: //pgigogne.wixsite.com/arquitecto

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Diego Pereira Escobar

Name: Diego Pereira Escobar (05/08/81), 2007 Architect, Diego Portales University. Academic Excellence Award 2005 Professional practice Office Hrvoje Njiric. Zagreb, Croatia2003 First prize 3rd CHILEDUCA National Competition Ministry of Education of Chile. UNESCO Sponsor “New spaces for Educational Reform” Project: Instituto del Mar, Quellón, Chiloé island.

www.polivalente.cl

Renato Vivaldi

Architect, University of Chile / University Roma III. In 1976 he moved to Chiloé, creating the “Taller Puertazul”, an architecture office that enhances the traditional and contemporary architecture built of wood in the archipelago. Since 1983 he has lived in Italy where he is working on sustainable and participated territory development in the Sabina region. His work has been published in several countries in America and Europe. p.102-107

Tierractual

Tierractual is an architecture and construction firm directed by Pilar Silva and Patrícia Marchante, both architects.

Our work’s aim is to promote, use and redesign earth and other natural building techniques from a cultural, social and ecological perspective.

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Camilo Holguin Ortiz

Born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1976. Architect: Andes University (Bogotá, 2001) Founder of NATIVA, Earth Sustainable Architecture Office (2003), located in Barichara, Colombia, whose aims are focused on the design and construction of sustainable projects built with local traditional techniques such as rammed earth, wattle and daub, adobe and stone.

Lucía Esperanza Garzón

Lucía Esperanza Garzón, Architect of the Piloto University of Colombia, participant of the Red Proterra. Design, build, research and transfer technologies with non-conventional materials. Each work is a laboratory to build knowledge and collectivize the experience. Promotes workshops on sustainable technologies with natural materials with emphasis on the EARTH.

www.piliko.gr

www.piliko.gr

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