6th – 8th March 2020
KZ Domovina
The main mission and goal of the conference is to bring recent information and experience in natural building and related topics – permaculture, saving technologies, ecological construction materials,off-grid systems, natural playgrounds, community cooperation. The whole conference will be translated into English.
6th March 2020
19.00Eco-settlements VS skyscrapers.How creativity will affect architecture
Oleksandr Dymnich has more than 10 years of experience in project management. He came to the company 3 years ago as a project manager from the IT sphere and began to innovate in our chaotic creative affairs. It’s been almost a year since Oleksandr was officially appointed as our CEO. In the studio, he saves the architects from procrastination as he knows all the deadlines while maintaining a balance between creativity and business. Oleksandr is engaged in the development and implementation of the company’s business strategy, improvement of the client service and entry to the foreign markets.
SERGEY MAKHNO ARCHITECTS is a workshop of contemporary Ukrainian design and architecture. Over 16 years of work it has nearly 600 completed projects in 17 countries. The company works in three directions: interior design, architecture and product design. Last year, it opened its own ceramic production. Awarded with prestigious international awards, such as the Red Dot Design Award, The International Property Awards, The Architecture MasterPrize, and the SBID. Studio’s projects have been published in more than 200 top editions, such as ELLE Decoration, ArchDaily, Design Milk, Dezeen. Studio works in a style called Ukrainian Contemporary and combines minimalism, art, Ukrainian traditions, and Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi. Slogan of the studio sounds like “WE ART THE WORLD!”
20.30Training the next generation of Natural Builders
Jan Tilinger – dreamer, photographer, architect, journalist, traveler, juggler and acrobat, guide, teacher, joiner, M.Eng. and Ph.D, the director of the highest Czech school and the father of three children.
Eleven years ago he built a school of natural materials in the middle of the Indian Himalayas in Kashmir, all material transported on horseback. He still runs this school. Otherwise, he teaches at CTU how to work in climatically, economically and culturally different areas. And he enjoys working with natural materials in combination with a modern needs. He has been working all over the world for over 20 years and he enjoys it a lot.
7th March 2020
9.00Clay as a part of the living environment
When a boy from a village and girl from a city decide to live together and they are both drawn to nature, they built together a straw- house in a small village. They are happy to share their experience – how their projekt Straw-house was changing from an idea to their “lifelong dream project”.They were close to the idea of natural house building, permaculture gardening. Whole project is a self-help one from step one – projects, foundations, green roof to hand-made oven, moroccan stucco, casting kitchen top and root purifier. Along the way they gained a lot of experience and knowledge, that can be valuable for people interested in this extremely hard, yet wonderful journey, during which nature, house and you all are changing.
10.00An universal wood/straw Modul for builders
am co founder of the German company LORENZ GmbH.
Owner of the polish company DOBRY DOM (10 years specialized in Straw/wood prefabricated buildings in poland).
Its a passion to build with natural materials and for our future the only solution.
11.00Ecolonomy, econology or the story of a mass weapon of construction
I’m Raphael PETIT founding president of RAINBOW ECOSYSTEM, self-made man, French auto-financer.
Tree issues are at the root of the creation of this engineering company:
1. I have done many things in my life, today all my needs are satisfied… But after me, in which world will live my two daughters, my grandson & the billion people around them?
2.What did I do until today to prepare it?
3.What can I do concretely from NOW?
The answers decided me to dedicate my “third” life to this project for my family & next generations. During 30 months our team of twenty experienced professionals (structural/hydraulic/mechanic/renewable energies andclimate engineers, contractors, designers,architects, scientists…) lovers of their mission worked hard. We think we can always do better, but today we are proud of the results.
Economy & ecology share the same roots, they are not opposite, and we have huge opportunities in front of us to prove it… Let’s go part of the way together in this direction
13.30The beauty of Clay
Ethical and ecological approach to our environment was always close to Roman. After he finished studying design in 2003, he became interested in ecological alternative materials in building. He was enchanted by clay in various forms, from charged clay through clay plastering to clay bricks. Currently he is working as a craftsman and realisator of straw buildings. Roman will be happy to share his experience about his educational activities in association oz ArTUR.
14.30Healthy home from permaculture garden to the cosy interior
Zuzana and Ján are authors of life project www.lifereset.sk about their big life, family and professional restart. Which has started after they got into family and personal crisis. Then with a small kids, they travelled to New Zealand, where they were volunteers on a permaculture farm. After their return, they quit their jobs, sold their house and they started to build a permaculture garden and interesting concept of mobile housing, that they transformed into a “growing” house. Thanks to guidance from skilled professionals on their way to a healthy housing, they shaped into professionals themselves, helping and training lots of people every year. They are building healthy mobile homes and small “growing” houses according to the principles of healthy interior design, inspired by natural building, they make vlogs, write articles, prepare workshops, where they each about self-made house building.
15.30Sheep’s wool – biosourced insulation for any structure
From 2013 to 2017 I Studied at the Hauptuniversität Wien Political Science among other things. During Christmas of 2017 I went home and my father proposed a venture into the sustainable field of biosourced construction materials, more specific thermal Insulation.
The plan for me was to give it 1 year and if it wasn’t going to work to return in Vienna. I never left again and am now studying Environmental Science and Chemistry. Building the factory took plenty but the hardest period was the wait we had to withstand for our product to be approved, it all ended well, it took 6 months and when you have most of your resources tied to one specific approval, you tend to get impatient .
It’s been hard work ever since we decided to go in this direction but it’s been rewarding as well. We are actively doing our part to save the planet and we are proud to do it with such a high performance
natural product like LanaTerm.
16.00Green roofs suit natural houses
Since 2006 Ing. Jitka Dostálová was a representative of a german company Optigreen and thanks to an extensive training activities, she became a pioneer in the field of specialized green roofs solution on czech and slovak market. She decided to put her knowledge and experience in her own company in 2012 in order to have more flexible and customized solutions for specific demands in Czech republic. According to a motto:„Give nature space and she will reward us with beauty”, Jitka Dostálová is striving for sustainability of construction and the highest possible benefit for the users. In 2013 she co-founded a specialized section of Green Roofs at the Association of growing a upkeep of green vegetation (Svazu zakládání a údržby zeleně), which she is also presiding. The department is trying to popularize vegetative roofs in Czechia and in the same time it is bringing the know-how and experience of the european departments with the same focus.
17.00Hemp - from a field to the building of a house
Jan was a pioneer of hemp building in Czech republic. At the beginning he was blending up homemade mixtures in his wood cabin, where he has moved from center of Prague. He studied international sources and went travelling to visit hemp buildings and production plants. During his travels he found inspiration and knowledge, which he passes it on to people. Jan occupies himself with natural building and education, working with wood, hemp and clay. He also organizes hemp building workshops, travel and give lectures, he remodelled his house using hemp masonry a he help to build many more. Today thanks to his work, there are tens of houses built using hemp masonry / hempcret in Czech republic. He continues to work on projects in CZ and in abroad. During his lecture at our conference he will present you world’s first house, built using hemp panels and tell you why can hemp save the world.
8th March 2020
10.00Straw Houses in Austria: How do straw bale building site in Austria look like ?Efficiency and Community sharing.
We bring experience from working in the StrohNatur.at team, which works in a cooperative way. What is different about such form? What constructions and procedures do we use? What could be an inspiring thing in getting a building permit ? And is the weekly straw-bale building workshop a useful way how to spend a holidays?
11.00Green infrastructure – water management
Vít studied engineering ecology on ČZU in Prague and he was preparing projects and proposals for water management buildings since he was a student at high school. From 2009, he is also designing and implementing root purifying systems. He is a member of Czech Association for water.
12.00Waste as a resource: here comes time, when primary materials become the second choice
Soňa Jonášová is an alumnus of Agriculture engineering on Mendel University in Brno. After studying abroad and internships in the Netherlands and Spain, in 2015 she founded and she is still a managing director of Institute of circular economy (INCIEN) in Czech republic, which also operates in Slovakia. The goal of INCIEN is active education, promoting and help with implementation of circular economy principles. Last year she brought a topic of circular economy on stage during our Natural Homes Conference. Almost one year later news about concrete made from recycled materials has reach czech public. This invention was created as a reaction to a fact, that natural sources are running low in Czechia. Where will the civil engineering proceed, being the biggest producer of waste, while new basic sources such as sand, rock and wood are running out? The answer to this question are new projects and initiatives that are changing waste into a source. Lecture will introduce examples from practice and offer solution, that is in accordance with fulfilling climate commitments.
BAOBABY z.s.are allowed make changes in conference.program, if necessary.
Dear friends, know then it is possible! It is not just a dream anymore. It is a reality. There are so many of us – culturally creative individuals or rather a “tribe” of active, fascinated and enthusiastic people, yearning to live a different life. I was deeply moved by seeing a mass of beautiful people and the conference made me sure that a “new age” is already here. There were an infinite number of wonderful project ideas, intentions and visions. I am sincerely grateful that I could be a part of the whole project and I want to express my thanks and appreciation to the organisers (Baobaby). It was very valuable experience for me and I am curious how many beautiful projects will be realized in our country with a contribution of these people. Read more »
We recomend to attend the whole conference, which is organized to provde complex information about the topic.
What is the difference between participating in a conference and reading the articles, blog on permaculture, natural building, organic houses? Main difference is, that during these three days you will see and hear 15 speakers, who you might never see under one roof again. You will have opportunity not only to enrich your knowledge by listening and watching the presentations, but also by talking to other participants and speakers. You will gain new useful contacts and enjoy unforgettable atmosphere of a conference, which is of the top natural building conferences in Central Europe.
Do not hesitate to write us your questions about The Natural Home Conference 2020.
Viktor Karlík
Baobaby, z.s.
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