
Natural Building Week
Mon, Dec 08
|Centro Educativo Suelo Sano
One week hands-on course in building with clay, sand & straw. Various methods for walls, floors, and even a wood-fired stove.


Time & Location
Dec 08, 2025, 8:00 AM CST – Dec 14, 2025, 12:00 PM CST
Centro Educativo Suelo Sano, Las Parcelas, Nicaragua
About the event
This is a full week of workshops where we employ various mixtures of clay, sand, and straw as well as other natural materials, to build walls, floors and even a wood-fired stove. We will also create artistic design elements with color, and even waterproof our clay walls with different lime-based plasters. All classes will take place in the mornings, with afternoons off. We also anticipate a beach day to wash the mud off!
We will discuss:
~ how to test soil for clay content
~ratios and options for binding material
~the different recipes for cob, quinche, wattle & daub, and light straw clay
~the different mixtures for successive plaster layers
Schedule
1 hourWelcome to the workshop
Centro Suelo Sanoclaycobnatural buildingworkshop
2 hours 30 minutesBuilding with Cob
Centro Suelo Sanoclaylimeplaster
Tickets
Natural Building Week
Good for entire week of classes December 8 to 14, 2025 Limited availability.
$70.00
+$1.75 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00


