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Kate Noblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05059741542665921860noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213528378980768887.post-41433055125090348482015-05-27T13:58:00.006+02:002015-05-28T08:50:23.056+02:00Group Tadelakt on The Family FarmMy little sister is currently working at <a href="http://thefamilyfarm.co.nz/" target="_blank">The Family Farm</a> in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand and she sent me some photos of the recent tadelakt art installation which takes pride of place in their new <a href="http://mangararaecolodge.co.nz/" target="_blank">eco lodge</a>. I love these pictures because of the group effort; adults and children from around the world coming together for an act of eco building. Tadelakt is not the most accessible form of plastering, it takes skill and patience and practice and yet these children can say they were involved in the creation of this beautiful art across a chimney breast which will last years, continuing to be beautiful and give them pride and pleasure.<br />
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<br />Kate Noblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05059741542665921860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213528378980768887.post-70718077961841549072015-05-27T11:38:00.003+02:002015-05-27T17:41:13.973+02:00Rendered in the News<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My first clay plastering job with <a href="http://www.hetleemniscaat.be/nl/welkom" target="_blank">Het Leemniscaat</a> has made the 'news'! I worked on the internal clay render of this gorgeous house in one of the first days in Belgium last year. (The 'before' pictures are in one of my early blog posts) Mathias let me practice clay plastering the kitchen shelves and niches before letting me loose with a trowel and pallet knife on the upstairs bedrooms. I also worked on the external lime render with red pigments during the last days in Belgium. It rained so hard that the red pigment went everywhere and the team looked as if they'd been in an abbatoir all day, my boots didn't dry out fully until after I'd already got back to England.</div>
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The house is one of 4 houses and an art space occupied by a community in the countryside outside Antwerp. This house was the first to be renovated from its dilapidated state and was designed by Peter Voss of <a href="http://www.barchi.be/" target="_blank">Barchi </a>Architects. It has a timber frame which sits inside the stone work of the original barn, a suspended floor which is insulated from below with sea shells and hempcrete. Underfloor heating is imbedded in the hemp and bamboo flooring is laid on top. </div>
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A glass section has been incorporated into the new roof to provide natural light and a glass section of floor gives the impression of a double height atrium at the entrance. The inside walls are hempcrete and straw bale sections with clay plaster. The downstairs ceilings have been lime washed and preserve the original arches of the barn. Externally the walls have been lime rendered to protect the hemp and straw sections from weather. </div>
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This house provided the template for the other houses which needed renovation on site and the home owners took on much of the work themselves following days spent working with the Het team. </div>
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In the pictures below you can see the gold glints of straw in the plaster. This occurs when the clay has been sponged several times with successively drier sponges which transforms the walls from wet brown plaster to smooth, hard, glimmering gold. </div>
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<br />Kate Noblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05059741542665921860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213528378980768887.post-952187078557018252015-05-16T22:12:00.001+02:002015-08-02T23:24:29.683+02:00Capability NobleThe brief for this garden was to provide as much planting space as I could, create a curved path to the back gate, remove the white doors and design an alternative entrance and if possible, save the apple tree. The design we arrived at involved moving the shed, finding a place for the bins and making the most of the sun traps.<br />
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I have taken up the old decking, removed the patio bricks, demolished the old back wall and free-cycled the unwanted back gates.<br />
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I have laid a new patio and curving path, built new raised beds and a new back wall with an arch around the apple tree and another for the new gate (which arrives in a few weeks, fingers crossed it fits). I had help with some of the bricklaying from Marius at MG Brick Specialists based in Reading, and support from my family and friends for the long days.<br />
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The planting will happen over the summer, the lady of the house is very excited to spend a few months ordering fruit trees and plants, I hope to get a proper 'after' photo in September..<br />
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Kate Noblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05059741542665921860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213528378980768887.post-34831518623501178182014-11-15T19:00:00.000+01:002015-06-25T16:51:36.365+02:00Kate Noble: Master of Science<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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After 2 years of fitting studies in around a full time job, in Norwich and then in Belgium, I have finally written the thesis and passed my Masters degree.<br />
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Apart from spending many glorious weeks at the Graduate School of the Environment at the <a href="http://gse.cat.org.uk/" target="_blank">Centre for Alternative Technology</a> in mid-Wales, this course has also led to my giving talks to the Norfolk and Suffolk fire services on photovoltaic electrical fire safety; going self-employed; meeting <a href="https://twitter.com/Kevin_McCloud" target="_blank">Kevin McCloud</a> of Grand Designs; working with Rowland Keeble of <a href="https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A0LEVioTwGVVu68AwAdjmolQ;_ylu=X3oDMTBsa3ZzMnBvBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkAw--?p=Rowland+keeble&tnr=21&vid=B6EE0F8A2B427D3968DFB6EE0F8A2B427D3968DF&l=180&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DWN.dzKGyqpf5eRCNHO32Tbalg%26pid%3D15.1&sigi=11v7tj07v&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DmcI1OiW4nDQ&sigr=11bsi9lvh&tt=b&tit=RAMMED+EARTH+BUILDING+WITH+ROWLAND+KEEBLE&sigt=119g1rk8p&back=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fyhs%2Fsearch%3Fp%3DRowland%2Bkeeble%26vm%3Dp%26type%3Den-US__alt__ddc_yhs_ecosia_org%26hsimp%3Dyhs-ecosia_03%26hspart%3Dddc%26fr%3Dyhs-ddc-ecosia_03%26ei%3DUTF-8&sigb=14q5klpm6&hspart=ddc&hsimp=yhs-ecosia_03&vm=p" target="_blank">Rammed Earth Consulting</a>; swimming in quarries in January and camping in sand dunes in July.<br />
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My thesis, titled <b>'Hot Property: A feasibility study into the use of air conditioning condensate as irrigation for promoting biodiverse green roofs on commercial buildings in hot arid climates'</b> gained a distinction grade and is in the process of being turned into a publishable article.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">My supportive friends in the last hours of the thesis write-up</span></td></tr>
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<br />Kate Noblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05059741542665921860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213528378980768887.post-82689599040024327682014-10-15T15:45:00.000+02:002015-05-27T17:15:09.051+02:00Restoration of a Trullo, Puglia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In September, I spent a month working with a restoration team in Southern Italy rebuilding a trullo. Trullis are conical dry stone buildings which are only found in a small area of Puglia. We were restoring one on a residential property just outside Ceglie Messapica. It was quite a diverse international team and a challenge not only to complete the project but also to work in harmony together and with our Italian Trullaro.<br />
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Trullis have 2 layers from the ground to the peak. The circular base and walls have to be wide enough to support the roof which means that the room size inside is quite small compared with the diameter of the structure. The inner roof is made up of corbled stones, each one is dressed on all six sides to create a smooth inner cone. The outer roof is made up of chianche or tile-like stones. These are also dressed to fit together and prevent water ingress. The two layers are held together with skill, gravity and harting stones.<br />
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We ate incredible local food, swam in a perfect blue sea, explored a huge ghost city, made pasta shaped abstractly like ears, drank red wine and laved in olive oil.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lintel of an inner door, linking two trulli</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking advantage of rare steps up the roof to do some yoga on top of an ancient trullo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Alberobello, UNesco heritage site</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Day 1, 60's additon of cement render affected the integrity of the chianche</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After removing the cement and the chianche</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Trullaro, Mario, checking the angle of the laid stone</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The corbled walls of a new 'Scottish Trullo'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Blissful evening after working hard</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An olive tree growing up through a ruined trullo</td></tr>
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I was working in collaboration with Thea Alvin of <a href="http://robyn-alvin.squarespace.com/" target="_blank">My Earthwork</a>, Amanda Roelle of <a href="http://www.archistrati.com/" target="_blank">Archistrati</a> and Norman Haddow of <a href="http://wallswithoutmortar.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Walls Without Mortar</a>. It was an honour.<br />
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This month was transformative and I want to share Thea's words with you.<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /><br />"There is something quite magical, literally, about Italy. It simply exists, it doesn’t boast, or flaunt, though surely, it has fathered and mothered masters of all genres. It doesn’t hold itself loftily above others, though its pedestal is pretty tall.<br /><br />Italy, my Italy, is one filled with a timeless feeling of wanting to contribute to its effortless lineage of stone, of stone art, of small works, nothing masterful, of the daily, every day workings, the things that make life real and rich.<br /><br />Crushing thyme on my slippered feet, I walk below the bay tree setting the table in a vineyard for dinner, this night, mid summer, we serve 18. The meal is still in the kitchen and an 8 year old Italian set of golden curls wildly bundled and wrapped in something velvet and tasseled helps me, correcting my diction, and putting the forks on the proper side of the plate. She abruptly rejects a spotted wine glass, and seriously delivers the water pitchers with their beaded lace coverlets. The train from Switzerland screams through the valley and the Churches in town begin to ring out seven peals. Dinner in an hour, the roses, ripe right on time, the pears and figs and plums too. The grapes are heavy on the vine, but they need another month or so until its time, and tray upon tray of tomatoes were carefully split and laid to dry in the sun. It’s so deep in layers of sensation, that the top or the bottom is intertwined and the flavors that soak into my skin and heart can be recalled even now, in early spring with such real authenticity, that I well with tears. This place has so formed me, transformed me, informs me. These mountains, these hearty joyful people, this music, the wine, the stone. The language of place. The shape of the smell... We sit there for hours and hours sharing the meal, laughing, crying sometimes, but above all, soaking it in. all of it, each one of the parts of it, soaking it in until saturated and we begin to swim in it and splash in it.<br /><br />Italy, this Italy is rich in something so tangible, so non materialistic. It is fluent in love. It speaks the language of art, and this is such a simple verse. It speaks of lizards on white washed plastered walls. It speaks of palm trees hosting visiting owls. Its splashing rivers diverted momentarily, create pools and basins to enjoy, to dip ones hands into the cold freshness and absorb the moment to hold against the tedium, the tears, the labour of all the balance of the days."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span>Kate Noblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05059741542665921860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213528378980768887.post-66935735687269366712014-08-14T14:57:00.000+02:002015-05-27T14:15:36.606+02:00Bread Oven for Danish Refugee Women I had a very exciting email out of the blue from an organisation called FAKTI. They are a refugee centre for women and children in the centre of Copenhagen. A safe and welcoming place where women can come to learn Danish and English; to converse in their own languages with other refugees and to have access to legal and medical aid while they prepare their applications for asylum in Denmark.<br />
These people have suffered great hardships in their journey to Copenhagen which leave physical and emotional scars long after their applications have been processed. Many continue to attend the Fakti Centre to help new arrivals once they have established new lives in the city.<br />
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I was invited to come and stay with a Danish woman and her family for a long weekend and build a bread oven in a 'Garden of Tranquility' which is being built by the women on land adjoining the centre. Mette met me at the airport in a nissan micra full of kids clothes, car seats, bags of clay and a wheelbarrow.<br />
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We gathered materials from the farm she lives on and volunteer help from the centre, among Mette's friends and family, and a Catalan father and daughter who were 'Wwoof'ing for the summer holidays. The women at the centre recognised the process of making cob for the oven from their own experience in Syria and Afghanistan and taught the skinny Danish men how to put their backs into it. 9 nationalities were represented and language was no barrier.<br />
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The act of making over the scrub land is in itself a balm to many. For those without the strength to help dig over beds, the garden will become a place to meet, have meals, for children to play and for scars to begin to fade. One of the key elements of the garden is an earthen bread oven.<br />
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For me, the Danish attitude to asylum seekers puts the British attitude to shame and I am not surprised that a rising number of disillusioned young men are becoming radicalised in the UK. These women have a place to find support and education they can feel empowered to make the most of their chances in Europe. If they need help with their children, they can find it here. When I left, they cried at the taste of home I had helped them build in their Danish garden. I cried to be leaving.<br />
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<br />Kate Noblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05059741542665921860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213528378980768887.post-12364069063407839582014-08-07T15:18:00.000+02:002015-05-27T14:16:59.124+02:00Tadelakt on a Pizza OvenMy Belgian friends Saskia and Steffi came to visit me and so I got them working on protecting a pizza oven for the winter in a friend's garden. <br />
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<br />Kate Noblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05059741542665921860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213528378980768887.post-19351869001638941072013-11-30T16:56:00.000+01:002015-05-27T16:57:18.166+02:00Hempcrete on Exmoor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
After a successful experience with <a href="http://www.ukhempcrete.com/" target="_blank">Hemp-lime Construct,</a> I joined them again to work on this beautiful new-build on the highest point on Exmoor. In November. Following a disastrous first experience with a fraudulent hemp-crete supplier, this homeowner bravely decided to risk hempcrete for a second time but this time with us. The old mud-lime mix had been removed by the time we arrived, oak lathes replaced or repaired and we were set. The building has silver shimmering chestnut shingles on the roof, copper guttering and a red dry stone retaining wall in the garden. A straw bale garage had been build as well and this became our go-to place when the cold outside became too bitter for our fingers. It was a lovely space and the incredible views far outweighed the downsides of working in the winter, even after mice ate my crumpets. </div>
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Dunmoor survived very well - and no water in through the roof! The winds came from the south west. We'll have see what happens if we have rain driven from another direction.</div>
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Since you left the doors have been replaced, the sills have been set in ready for the windows whose frames are now painted and the ceilings are lathed ready for plastering. I've bought a moisture meter.</div>
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Thanks for your incredible hard work and your good cheer - and of course the beautiful job."</div>
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Kate Noblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05059741542665921860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213528378980768887.post-91050059020221008672013-05-30T17:54:00.000+02:002015-05-27T21:32:10.340+02:00Last Day with Het Leemniscaat<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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One of my first construction jobs was on this project in central London. I was part of a team of 5 involved in the creation of a rammed earth external wall of the new <a href="http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/wildlife.aspx" target="_blank">Eco Centre</a> in Holland Park. <a href="http://rammedearthconsulting.com/rammed-earth-whatwedo.htm" target="_blank">Rowland Keeble</a> of Rammed Earth Consulting headed up the project but the construction was undertaken by <a href="http://www.j3buildingfutures.co.uk/us.html" target="_blank">Jason Hawkes</a>, Dhanya Prem, Ben Rogers, Llewellen Jones and myself. </div>
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<br />Kate Noblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05059741542665921860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213528378980768887.post-29569672898607809322012-12-08T20:03:00.002+01:002012-12-12T11:17:55.679+01:00Making Pizza Ovens in AmsterdamSaturday Dec 8th, Saskia and I got up at 5am and drove to Amsterdam! We had a brief pit stop for coffee and croissants which I fell on like a starving waif at 6am and regretted as soon as we arrived at<a href="http://www.tierrafino.be/" target="_blank"> Tierrofino</a> where the most delicious, overly filling food was laid on for us. There were 6 of us on the course, and the group bonded really well. Christo Markham, the leader taught us some really interesting ways to build pizza ovens and had suggestions I'd never have thought of on my own. For example, the clay is less likely to crack if sugar is added to the mix.<br />
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Level out the clay base with a wooden float and then lay the fire bricks and make them level too.<br />
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Build up the sand form, trying to keep the sides vertical as long as possible before curving into the roof.<br />
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Adobe bricks, clay, sand and sugar mortar, Straw and clay slip insulation. And my enormous winter knitwear, brrrr.<br />
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More clay, sand, sugar render with embedded jute netting to reduce cracks<br />
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Sand all scooped out, looks perfect!<br />
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Examples of other amazing things to make with clay, rammed earth and tadelakt:<br />
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With frozen fingers and hair crackling with ice, ten kids from the Antwerp Steiner School and I powered up the industrial mixer and poured kilo after kilo of lime, hemp-shiv, water and kaolin powder into it. A pack and a half of hemp to one bag of pure hydrated lime (30kilos) to about a kilo and a half of kaolin mixed with 35 litres of water makes 8 tubs worth of perfect hempcrete in about 4 minutes. This needed to be hauled upstairs and tamped by hand into the wooden forms. Our mixer was working solidly from 9am to 3pm. As your starter for 10- how many tubs did we haul?<br />
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By the end of the day, I'd developed quite a crush on a teenager, my knuckles were swollen, I'd fallen down the last rungs of the ladder twice, torn my trousers, cut my leg, my nails were cracked, I had shiv in my eyes and I'd accidently punched a few errant screws in the walls when tamping more than once so it's taken all week for my hands to recover and get back to typing. The house looked brilliant when it was finished though and I wasn't the only clumsy one! I also met my friend Steffi, she's a student at the Steiner school and we worked together in Vermont. It was really fantastic to see her again.<br />
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Monday night I stayed over at Peter Vos's house and talked about intelligent architectural things, had a blissfully hot shower and played monopoly the Euro version (I bought Schiphol Airport and Latvia for a bargain €160!)<br />
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Friday was a surprise extra day with the Het Leemniscaat team and to make me feel like a real member the boss presented me with a team shirt! It's far too nice and clean to actually wear at work though, I'm saving it for best.</div>
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We drove through the frosty winter fog to the outskirts of Brussels to a residential suburban street. Thom and his wife have spent 6 months living in the sitting room of her father's small inner city apartment with their 3 children aged 6, 2 and 4 months while they created a masterpiece of natural building. Tall, narrow, squeezed into a street of townhouses, they have built themselves a timber framed, straw-bale and hempcrete family home. They are hoping to move in before Christmas and although the house looks far from finished, I am sure they will be; they have a steely determination to leave their current living arrangements.</div>
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Our job was to render the exposed bales with clay to provide a level of fire protection while maintaining building breathability. They will board over the clay on the ceilings with natural, cement-free gypsum plasterboard so that ceiling lights can be fitted snug. The walls will have a second layer of clay applied and smoothed over which will then remain exposed. They might choose to paint it later with breathable paint or a clay slip but the dry clay itself is a lovely warm terracotta colour.</div>
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Two days a week I shall be working for Mathias Lootvoet (see the last photo). His company build large scale projects from entirely natural building materials. They source their materials as locally as they can to reduce the hidden CO2 of transport and mix many of their own products to reduce commercial processing emissions. </div>
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Despite this excellent record, I woke up at 5am yesterday morning full of nerves for my first day at <a href="http://www.hetleemniscaat.be/nl/welkom" target="_blank">Het Leemniscaat</a>. Saskia knows him really well and spent the last week telling me all his filthy habits and exactly how hard he would be on my first day to see if I was tough enough to earn his respect. I was expecting an ogre. Or at least a bit of a git. Saskia seemed almost more nervous than me; she made me a huge thermos of Wake-Up tea and extra sandwiches because Mathias was likely to steal my food from my bag and I should have some hidden in my trousers or jacket pockets. She dropped me off at his studio at 6.30am and as I got out of the car she handed me a card with her phone number and home address on it so that I could find my way home. I felt like a refugee or a kid on her first day at playschool!</div>
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After an hour driving in the dark we arrived in a village the far side of Belgium (Belgium's small!). The site is part of a community living project. 5 families have bought and gutted a huge barn and stables built on a quadrant with an inner courtyard and garden. The existing buildings are made with beautiful red brick and terracotta tiling and to preserve them, completely freestanding timber structures have been constructed inside.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">In the house we were working in this week the hempcrete had already been rammed a few weeks earlier and the wooden forms already removed from the walls so we spent the whole first day preparing the walls for the clay with reeds and a natural primer, mixed on site, made of sand, water and plant cellulose. "Natural and delicious like porridge" says Mathias. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The reeds are stapled to the wooden frame and beams so that the clay will have something to adhere to. The primer is only needed on boarded areas such as the shower cubicle, not on the hempcrete. As wood responds to humidity by subtly expanding and contracting, we applied a fibre glass netting over the areas most at risk of movement to reduce cracking in the finish of the clay. Fibre glass isn't 'eco' and Het Leemniscaat is sourcing and trialing netting which works as well from other materials. So far the jute netting products have all been rejected as it gets heavy and waterlogged too easily and begins to sag down, warping the walls before they've dried properly. Flax netting is the team favourite but sourcing it locally-made is proving difficult.</span></div>
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Tuesday morning saw a bright and breezy 6am departure for the site followed by a whole day of clay render shovelling, mixing, spraying and spreading with a brief but welcome stop for cake. One of the team has a weekend job at <a href="http://www.julieshouse.be/en/" target="_blank">Julie's House</a> in Gent and brought in several boxes of delicious pie shaped fun for us to scoff. I had a slice of apple tart, half a slice of tiramisu cake and a smidgeon of an incredible meringue and chocolate roulade. I could have managed more but I'm new to the team and I didn't want to come across as greedy..</div>
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The mixer can produce 40 litres of sprayable clay at a time and it was going all day long. One man sprayed the walls while the rest of us leapt to comb the clay smoothish, apply the netting and smooth again with serrated edged palate knives. The varying qualities of the palates and Stanley knives soon became obvious and the best ones were covetted fiercely. So much so that I found 3 clay coated Stanley knives in my pockets when I got home. The tools also gave unexpected rise to jokes like 'De tanden op deze kam zijn zo bot en gebroken het doet me denken aan je moeder!'* Apparently 'Yo Mama' jokes are internationally popular, who'd've thought it?</div>
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We got absolutely clarted in it, the man with the clay covered specs on is Mathias. My hair is cracking now as I type and I'm too afraid to undo my plait because I'll get clay all over the bathroom. My trousers are standing-up-on-their-own-stiff and soaked and I'm sure will still be extremely uncomfortable tomorrow. My arms ache and I've got cuts all over my hands from the scratchy clay. Bizarrely, I feel more energised than yesterday evening although I am dreading tomorrow's alarm already.</div>
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Also, in exciting extra curricular news, one of Mathias's team has invited me to a talk next Tuesday by the Belgian architect <a href="http://www.barchi.be/" target="_blank">Peter Voss</a> in Limburg. Belgium is the European leader for strawbale buildings (I learnt today) and Peter Voss is one of the leading proponents of straw construction. Excited! </div>
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*'The teeth on this comb are so blunt and broken it reminds me of your mother!' </div>
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Today was my first day working for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TadelaktSaskia" target="_blank">Saskia Heirwegh</a> at <a href="http://tadelaktsaskia.blogspot.be/" target="_blank">TadelaktLeem</a>. Yesterday the bus from England was long and tiring and I woke up this morning feeling worried that I wouldn't be able to match my boss's energy. She works long hours and I know she has the stamina of an ox! Happily the sun was shining and I was eased in gently with a couple of quick errands to make small repairs in houses where the drying of the lime has allowed hairline superficial cracks to appear in the shower cubicle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are lots of pigments to choose from in the studio and it was hard to decide. In the end I aimed for a midnight blue made with a mix of bright almost turquoise 'Mexican Blue' and black. I think it came out pretty well but the final colour will only be seen after the lime has completely dried. On a big wall that can take years but on my sample board in a warm studio it should be a pretty true colour within the week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> This plaster is a bit wet for use on a vertical wall but perfect for the sample boards..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are lots of stages of drying and rubbing with a wooden float and leaving it and rubbing it a bit more but once it is dry enough you can polish it with an agate stone- easy on a sample board, a lot of work for a whole bathroom- essential to give the tadelakt its luminescence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> A bit more polishing with a plastic thing I've only ever used for pastry before...</span><br />
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I'll have to go back in a few days to polish with a new layer of soap and then a wax layer once the lime has dried a bit more but now it's time for another piece of cake and bed..</span>Kate Noblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05059741542665921860noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213528378980768887.post-17621538330551204632012-09-23T16:18:00.000+02:002015-05-27T16:19:33.862+02:00Nuit Blanche Art Hop Ottowa<br /><br />We (<a href="http://www.myearthwork.com/" target="_blank">Thea Alvin</a> and her Team) were invited to create an art installation at La Nuit Blanche in Ottowa. This is an all night 'art hop' where the whole city comes alive with creative arts. Film, dance, crafts, exhibitions, theatre and music are all represented and people can saunter through the city eating and drinking and taking in the shows..<div>
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After quite a bit of brain storming, we decided that the easiest and most impressive installation we could create at short notice would be a free standing arch made of shopping trollies. The site we were allocated was in the ley of a huge church which in daylight looked a little frightening but by night became the perfect backdrop to our installation.</div>
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A selection of the stone work photographs from my time in Vermont. A large patio with retaining dry-stone wall and fire pit at a residential home; a dry-stone wall along a goat pasture and a large dry-stone pear installation at a museum.</div>
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Kate Noblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05059741542665921860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213528378980768887.post-58944189384430676562012-09-08T16:23:00.000+02:002015-05-27T16:23:43.603+02:00Fall in Vermont<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In September 2012 I went to </span><st1:state style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" w:st="on">Vermont</st1:state><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> to work on several projects with master stonemason,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.myearthwork.com/" target="_blank">Thea Alvin</a>. We used several different materials in the installations we created, from field stone to granite to shopping carts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Arch made of shopping carts for the Ottawa Nuit Blanche Sept 2012 and a Cairn made to honour the Coach House in Calais, Vermont.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A path laid for a community centre in Montpelier, Vermont and a stone wolf I carved one evening after dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A wintry wall of round Vermont field stone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From Thea, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I learnt the importance of considering where the water will flow through any installation as well as the many ways to </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">instill</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> strength and longevity in a structure. Most importantly, I learnt how to feel for the best balance between a construction and its surroundings as well as between one stone and the next, not to mention the delicate balances between members of the team..!</span>Kate Noblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05059741542665921860noreply@blogger.com0