Biko Domes

BE PART OF BUILDING THE FIRST SUPERADOBE DOME IN TENNESSEE!
(photo above of domes at Cal-Earth)

Building Earthen Domes, we create super strong, inexpensive, natural houses in tune with our environment.

We Will Learn 
PRINCIPLES OF ARCHES AND SHELL STRUCTURES – BUILDING DESIGN & LAYOUT – FOUNDATIONS SUPER ADOBE BASICS – NATURAL PLASTERING – WATERPROOFING – BUILDING DOOR AND WINDOW OPENINGS

  • This week long workshop is great for people who dream of building their own home or starting an alternative community.
  • Building this beautiful type of earthen structure  is fun, easy,  empowering and accessible to people of all ages.
  • After completing this workshop you will know everything you need to safely build your own earthen dome.
  • The Main thrust of the workshop will be to complete a permanent dome .

SUPERADOBE
Is a building technology based on double curvature shell structures (domes) made from stabilized earth. This method was developed by architect Nader Khalili at the Cal-Earth Institute in California.

THE FARM
Is an intentional spiritual Community located in the green woods of Tennessee. This community has been a pioneering force in appropriate technology and community living since 1971.  For more information and to find out about staying at The Farm during the workshop please visit this link.

BIKO CASINI
Biko was trained at a young age in masonry by his father Francesco Casini. Together they worked restoring plantation homes and churches in the South. Biko spent years as a student and employee at the Ecovillage Training Center where he worked with many natural builders and permaculturalists to design and build the ETC campus. He studied sustainable building and development in South Africa at the Thlolego Development Project. With 16 years of natural building experience, he has built with Stone, Cob, Straw Bale, Adobe, Straw Clay Slip, and Cord Wood in the US,  South Africa, Italy, India, and Ghana. Biko also recently completed a 3-month internship at the Cal-Earth Institute of Art and Architecture.

TO REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP:

Contact Biko at [email protected] or call 404.769.6726

$500 WORKSHOP FEE INCLUDES FREE CAMPING –  Farm fresh food and cooking facility available – shared meals encouraged

Checks Payable to Biko Casini, 218 Schoolhouse Rd., TN 38483

"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model.

You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called."
~ Buckminster Fuller ~