Tiny House Workshop

Learn how to design and build your own home?

Mentored by

Edward Dale-Harris

Architect, Regenerative Designer + Meditator

SAWA Architecture, Builth Wells

Ages: children 16 - 18 · adults 18+ years

High Waged £120Middle Waged £80Low Waged £60

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Tiny House Workshop block mentored by Edward Dale-Harris

A summary

Join us to meet (or catch-up) with Eartha! Ed's Off grid Tiny Home / Shepard's Hut, learn from her ability to collect her own water, harvest sunlight, store heat energy, and return waste back to the land for continued life. Delve into what she has brought to Ed’s life – allowing him to live with a smaller footprint, lowered bills and a closer connection to nature. Find out how she can be an inspiration, as we start to dream into your own projects. If you share Eartha’s dreaming of a lower cost, more self-reliant and greener living, this workshop is for you. What will you learn: Principles of the DIY tiny home - basics designing, building and living in a tiny self-built home! Regenerative design theory – Applying regenerative principles to building Eartha. Styles and Types and ways to approach the build - make your own mood board Timelines – Step by step order of events when constructing Eartha. A Tiny Budget? – Cost breakdowns + learnings. Planning System - ways to go about finding ways to live small Building + Caravan Regulations Eartha’s clothes - How to create an energy efficient building envelope. This will cover the difference between Insulation and thermal mass, and give you a basic understanding of the difference between vapour open + closed materials. Climate adaptation - How to adapt to the climate and the changing weather patterns of your location. Using the Five Elements as a Design Tool – how can our understanding and observation of the elements help when tackling project? EARTH - materiality, structure, compost loos... WATER - sanitation, water collection... WIND - Airtightness and utilising openings for ventilation control... FIRE - Energy Systems to heat water, food + home. SPIRIT - Self-care, what supports our heathy mind and body. This course aims to give you a practical learning experience that is both fun and empowering. It aims to provide the space for you to dream into what is possible and to connect with others who may share a similar dream. Please bring any projects and building design questions you're thinking of. This is your chance to imagine, dream and map out the space you would like to live in. Lying in a bed with a house around me that I have crafted has given me so much joy and I hope to pass this on to you during the day. Sketch design exercise We will finish the day with a sketch design exercise where you get to explore your deisgn challenges and ideas and next steps. The climate is warming up, the tiny house moment is growing, it is increasingly important to live sustainably, come and join this workshop for change!

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: Inside + Outside Clothes – 1 set of clean clothes and 1 set of clothes you don't mind getting muddy in, which are weather appropriate and can be layered up – Powys weather is very changeable. Reusable items - Water bottle, cup, plate + bowl. Food: A lunch contribution to share (potluck style). We’ll provide a large pot of vegan curry, rice, and salad. Please bring a small something or sweet to share. We will provide teas, herbs, soya milk, and basic coffee available in our pauses. Please advise us of any dietary requirements/allergies you have. Other: Notebook, pen, your eagerness to learn and don’t forget - your smile! TRAVEL Parking is limited onsite to 3 spaces onsite (for the teacher and assistant teachers to use), theres a working farm track which goes past the cottage which has big vehicles coming in and out all the time, we must not block this access. They will be very upset if we do!! PARK + PICK UPS FROM HERE: Therefore we ask everyone to park on Hospital Road, near the Junction of Irfon Bridge Road: Link to Google Map Location https://maps.app.goo.gl/Y37kPxTfi5p1JEDP9 Lift Shares Please email us 1 week before if you are travelling via car so we can arrange/offer lift shares to those that need/want it. Timings Please park up here before 9:30 am, so we can pick you all up at 9.45am. Train and Bus Station Pick-ups Can be arranged from either: 1. Cilmeri Railway Station, 2. Groe 2, The Stand, Builth Wells, Bus station. 3. Hospital Road, near the Junction of Irfon Bridge Road: Link to Google Map Location https://maps.app.goo.gl/Y37kPxTfi5p1JEDP9 Cycling Cyclist are legends and get a front row seat. Go to SAWA architecture, 2 Tyny Graig Cottages, LD2 3HH. Accommodation: On-site accommodation can be arranged, Tyn Y Graig is currently under refurbishment but welcoming, there are some basic rooms available, a large bell tent and camping spots. We also have a shared shower bath WC room and kitchen which are spring water fed. Please enquire separately. Course requirements 16 years plus welcome, those who are 16-18 year olds must be with an adult. Dogs + Pets Please don't bring you dogs or pets, sadly we have too little space to be able to accommodate them. Volunteering Staying on to help volunteer on the build project and garden works might be possible, get in contact with Ed and see. Inclusion We strive to make sure this opportunity 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. Contact Us Email: sawa.architecture@gmail.com Phone: +447899657128

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

9.30am - Park up / Arrive Builth Wells at Stations and Pick up point 9.45am - Pick time (don't be late) 10am - start - check in circle , Intro talk, theory, slides and site orientation 11am - First Activity 11.30 am - Drinks and WC break 11.45 am - Second Activity 1 pm - Lunch Break 2pm - Third 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. 4.30pm - Drop offs back to Builth Wells

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Where we'll be

SAWA Architecture, Llanynis, Builth Wells, Powys, LD2 3HH

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