Elémenterre teaching bag
Animation:
Anaïs Guéguen Perrin (CRAterre)
Alain Briatte Mantchev (Laboraterra Arquitetura)
What if you discovered what happens on a microscopic scale when you build with earth? With ÉlémenTerre, explore the properties of earth through a series of educational, interactive, simple, fun… and sometimes surprising… experiments.
Through 13 experiments, various elements that make up earth are manipulated and sometimes mixed to understand the interactions that occur during construction processes. Through these material experiments, the workshop helps us understand the surprising behavior of matter in grains, the role of clay and water, and answer a fundamental question: how to transform a raw material into a sustainable building material—and how sustainable is it?
Élémenterre is a pedagogical and didactic tool developed by CRAterre to introduce students, professionals, as well as children and the general public, adults and children, to the properties of the earth material to understand why and how it is possible to build with raw earth.
This tool develops a new understanding of earth matter to allow participants to better open themselves to creation and innovation in architecture and construction with earth, through various manipulations that highlight the characteristics and behavior of earth matter components.
The development of specific pedagogical tools, based on the scientific and artistic exploration of the earth, contributes to the rediscovery and promotion of this often-ignored, even despised, natural raw material. These tools contribute to a better understanding of Earth's architectures, enriching and strengthening an approach based on the development of intangible resources, which has been at the core of the CRAterre laboratory's approach since its inception, through the promotion of local resources and constructive cultures for a sustainable habitat.
Free
Places: 20 per class
Registration
Morning class – 10am to 12pm
Registrations must be made here.
Registration will be open until the start of the workshop, on site, as long as there are spaces available.
Afternoon class – 3pm to 5pm
Registrations must be made here.
Registration will be open until the start of the workshop, on site, as long as there are spaces available.