Tiny House Workshop

Learn how to design and build your own home?

Mentored by

Edward Dale-Harris

Architect, Regenerative Designer + Meditator

Location address: Builth Wells, LD2 3HH
Chosen age group:

Ages: 18+ years

Available tickets:
High Waged £120Middle Waged £80Low Waged £60
Next date: Friday 18th Oct,
A summary
This one day 10am - 4pm workshop is a great place to start if you are thinking of embarking on a self-build eco home project. Dreaming of a low cost, self-sufficient autonomous green living, this is the place for you. The Tiny House Moment is booming, the climate is warming up as we know. It is ever the more important to live sustainably. Living small and in a mobile way, gives you better access to land and closer to nature and where you can grow your own food, catch your own rainwater and source your own renewable energy. Come join the workshop and see a living example of a tiny home meet Eartha, Ed's Tiny Home/ Shepard's Hut! Ed Founded SAWA in 2014, and has decades worth of hands on, theoretical and practical and professional experience, studying Architecture in Newcastle University and London Met and with RIBA NW, working with UK Charities in supporting community development in many countries in Africa an Asia. Finding regenerative permaculture design solutions unique to each place project and client. Coming home to UK in 2020, Earth became Ed's low cost regenerative design solution to living in the UK. Bring together the ethical framework, hands approach and intuitive wisdom of permaculture with the professional rigour and clarity of professional architect. The Tiny House Movement! addresses all of today’s crisis's: cost of living, energy bills, housing, mental health, economic, environmental etc... Living small can mean living outside more in nature, learning practical skills to keep you fit and embodied, living connected to the land and away from consumerism AND touching the soil every day. Not to mention saving money on rents, bills, mortgages and living in a community…. The list goes on... What will you learn: *Learn the basics of how to design, build and live in tiny mobile self built home! *Principles and ethics of regenerative design theory, integrated and applied to a Tiny House design Project. *The design and build sequence of Eartha. *A basic cost breakdown of what it costed Ed where you can save. *How to create energy efficient building envelope. The difference between Insulation and thermal mass, and vapour open + closed materials. *How to adapt to the climate and the changing weather patterns of your location. The Approach: Using the Five Elements as a Design Tool. EARTH *What good Natural Materials we can use + Structural Frame Design *Compost Loos - pee poo separator design, making compost and building soil life. WATER *A Water System: Grey, Black and Rain what do with what WIND * Ventilation design for fresh clean air, expelling bad smells and retaining heat in winter and cool in summer. FIRE *A Energy System to heat water and your home: Solar PV, Wood burner cooking and back boiler. SPIRIT *Staying happy, healthy land thriving. Bring your own unique project and building design questions? Get a chance to imagine and dream and map out of what kind of space you would live to live in. Get inspiration and empower knowledge to build your own home the self build Journey of a lifetime! What you can expect to get from this course: *A practical overview of how to design and build your own eco tiny home *A brilliantly fun way of learning how to use intelligent spatial design to create integrated spaces. *The feeling of empowerment that comes from knowing that you can take full ownership of a home building process. *A connected sense of being part of a movement and community. *A deepening awareness of nature based regenerative principles and how to apply them to your daily lives and design *Making new connections, friends and drawing on the knowledge of a self building, ecologically architect. *An opportunity to design and draw up your dream on paper and get feedback. *Lots of laughter, chats, smiles from a group like minded fun souls!
About your mentor
Edward Dale-Harris
Architect, Regenerative Designer + Meditator
ARB Architect, Edward Dale-Harris believes we must look beyond sustainability and move towards regeneration, we have to adapt our destructive behaviour and do much better to live in line with nature as citizens of the earth and stewards of the waters, winds and lands. We need more ‘self-directed learning’ to build self reliance, wellness and confidence. We must learn to share resources to create a healthier planet for all. Ed realises the importance of an ethical and aware approach to regenerative design, using nature as our teacher, and valuing a collective and collaborative decision-making process for a grounded and successful project. He is on a mission to introduce others to socially, environmentally and mindful architecture. Ed qualified as an Architect in 2017 and has gained many awards for his design, commitment, vision, compassion, charity work, environmental projects and peace building developments. In 2014 Ed founded SAWA with Enock Ruziga in Rwanda whilst working together on the 'a house for a victim' project. In 2015 Ed received the ‘RIBA North West London Society Award’ at the CASS Design School for this project, nominated as the best live and community engaged project. Ed spent eight weeks on site building a compressed earth block (CEB) house with recently-released prisoners and some of the families of their victims. The project was instigated by Ed and the Ntarama House Building Cooperative, to facilitate development and peace-building in post genocide Rwanda. The cooperative was set up by REACH, a local reconciliation focused charity, to help reintegrate perpetrators back into their community, by enabling them to build homes for victims of the genocide. This profound experience and research propelled the work of SAWA into the world of socially, environmental and mindful architecture. Ed has grown SAWA, into a network of freelance professionals and a pro-bono supporters. SAWA has collaborated with a range of community groups, individuals, charities, private businesses and professionals to deliver the best wholistic well rounded result, fair to the environment and all. In 2016 Ed received the ‘RIBAJ Rising Star 2016 Cohort Award’ for We Yone School in the Ebola-affected region of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Enabling 180 of the most vulnerable children in the community to attend primary school and provide a community space for adult learning. WYCF, the client, which nominated him for the RIBAJ award, says: ‘Ed demonstrated a commitment to the charity’s mission and vision that made it very easy to entrust him with a great deal of responsibility. Ed would deliver design iterations while involving other experts to improve overall robustness (rammed earth consultants, pro bono volunteers from international engineering companies and partners from architectural firms)... he conducted workshops with men, women and children and the community’s vision became firmly embedded in the design. He adapted to... poor internet, uncompetitive contracting, bad weather, language barriers, variable conceptions of time, etc.’ RIBAJ who granted Ed the award. In 2019 Ed received ‘The Agri Tech Centre AJ100 Best Collaboration of the Year Award’ with Squire and Partners, with the judges describing it as ‘an exceptional example of architectural practices doing charitable work in the developing world’. Ed has spent a large amount of time volunteering his skills in Rwanda and Mozambique, while seeing festivals as an opportunity to be socially active and experimental in the UK. Delivering projects in challenging environments: post '14 Ebola Sierra Leone, post genocide '94 Rwanda and '79 Cambodia and post '15 earthquake Nepal. Working closely with international and grassroots organisations to deliver appropriate and considered results. From 2021 up until now, Ed has been living and working from his Tiny Home on farms across the UK, in Hampshire, Sussex, Cumbria and Herefordshire. Designing and building structures for private home owners and farmers. Typically barn conversions, tiny homes, compost loos, veg gardens and community farms. Now based near Builth Wells, Mid Wales for the longer term.
Important Details
What to bring: * Clothes you don't mind getting muddy * Inside and outside clothes * Wet, warm, dry and cold weather clothes appropriately - Powys, weather is very changeable! * Water bottle, Cup Plate bowel *A lunch contribution to share * Note pad + pen * Questions, a project and an eagerness to learn * A Smile * Address SAWA architecture, 2 Tyny Graig Cottages, Powys, Wales, LD2 3HH *Parking There are 3 spare parking spaces on site, for the first three arrivals, there is some neighbourly spots within walking distance TBC. Please arrive from 9am in good time to park and walk down. *Car Sharing - please email us your travel plans at least 1 week before the event, so we can offer and share lifts. * Station Pick ups Can be arranged from either - Cilmeri Railway Station, or - Groe 2, The Stand, Builth Wells, Bus station. * Cyclist a legends and get a front row seat. *Accommodation: Onsite accommodation can be arranged - there are some simple bedrooms, a large bell tent camping spots, park spots, facilities are basic. This course is open to 16 years and up. For students between 16 - 18 an adult will need to sign a waiver on arrival provided by me. *Food: Lunch will be pot luck style, We will provide a large pot of vegan mild curry and rice and a fresh salad. Please bring a small dish, a sweet or some food to share. There will be a selection of teas, herbs, soya milk and basic coffee for break times. Please advise us of any allergies and dietary requirements, please bring your own. Families are welcome with children and 8-18 years plus are able to attend alone parents will need to sign a waiver at drop off. * Volunteering Staying on to help volunteer on the build project and garden works might be possible get in contact with Ed and see. * SAWA WhatsApp Group - SAWA Life Wales You can join here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BVVjMnEXHcH7eavEewxeud * SAWA Email List You can join here: https://mailchi.mp/562d8d022eba/sawa Dogs, Please don't bring you dog, sadly we a little space for them. *Inclusion We would like to make sure this opportunity is available to all people from all backgrounds, wealth, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexuality, identity etc. If there are any specific requirements in relation to food, accessibility or any other matter, please get in touch and we will do all we can to try and accommodate your requirements to make you feel welcome as possible.
Learning aims
Aim 1
Learn how to Design and Build a Tiny Home!
Aim 3
To design energy efficient systems using nature to ensure low or zero running costs of living in the building.
Aim 5
Learn to heal the land and ourselves
Aim 2
To understand regenerative and sustainable design principles
Aim 4
Learn to collaborate in a group with the same mission, share resources and create a healthier planet for all
Flow of the day
9am - Start to gather onsite, parking up, settling into the space, grab a drink and WC. 10am - start - check in circle , Intro talk, theory, slides and site orientation 11am - First practical activity 11.30 am - Drinks and WC break 11.45 am - Second practical activity 1 pm - Lunch Break 2pm - Third practical activity 3.30 - Drinks and WC break 3.45 - Closing Circle - Reflections, Learnings and Gratitudes 4pm - Departure / informal time to chat / clean up hands appreciated. 5pm - All day visitor to have left
Pricing information
Ticket nameHigh Waged
Price£120
Ticket nameMiddle Waged
Price£80
Ticket nameLow Waged
Price£60
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Where we'll be
SAWA Architecture, Llanynis, Builth Wells, Powys, LD2 3HH
WHAT’S PROVIDED
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