An eco lodge build with soil in South Africa
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Building with soil, this project combines vernacular earth building techniques with contemporary architecture.
Blending with the surrounding nature, Witklipfontein Eco Lodge offer a new way of experiencing farm life in South Africa.
More informations and booking via www.witklipfontein.co.za
Architects: Xavier and Damien Huyberechts
GLH Architect www.glh.co.za
This is well put together, I love the fact that you say it took longer than expected to minimise exptection but also be true!
Excellent, I am inspired by the whole process. I want to kiss the person who decided to do this. This is how I want to build my house.
Thank you. So inspiring! Let us all strive to work with nature and produce more beautiful and healthy spaces.
still looks natural af
They called us primitive and lazy when we built our houses with muds and clay
You're right but hopefully things evolve.
Exactly. Now it's suddenly en vogue -- sustainable and eco-friendly.
why did we listen to them?
This inspires me a lot, this is something I've been considering doing because earth buildings are stronger than the materials used today and I love the fact that it get's really cool in summer, when you live in South-Africa you know how hot it can get in summer so I'm definitely doing it thanks for the motivation❤
This project is without a doubt one of the best if not the best building I've seen in a while. Amazing work guys
I mean, this is hands down one of the largest earth ship-inspired homes I’ve seen so far. Beautiful. I’d love to see a proper tour and showdown of some of the construction peculiarities including the decision making behind it. I’d be curious about the cost of material and labor as well.
Amazing. We really need more people to take these challenges on.
I am inspired. The best I have seen so far. I hope to build a small lodge like this one day!
Just perfect! I don’t have the words. Inspired is an understatement, well achieved
Thanks for the inspiration. Sharing this with my friends
Your craftsmen are highly skilled.
Great documentary writing. It is captivating 💕❤️
Your design is truly superb, respectful to nature, unique and blends in perfectly with the landscape.
Magnifique performance Bravo!
I love the way you build and think about every detail in this Eco-Building, specially teaching locals in this friendly way. Have you thought of taking all this experience abroad?
Beautiful home and people who built it 🤩
This is my dream home, thanks for sharing ❤your dream 😊
Am in the Limpopo area and am loving this. It has proven a little difficult for me to find people who are confident to build with mud bricks though.
Hi, we had the same feeling with local builders so we decided to build it ourself 😉🙃
How can I learn to build like this?
What was your overall budget for this, please? Thanks for sharing.
Natural is the only way to go... probably the only way left; without hurting nature...
Sir if you create an in depth course about the process of how you and these men created this master piece or as you create another one, I will be your first customer! From the other comments, I can say many others will pay too. It will be worth a lot of money and a continuous income for you. I currently am in the realm of online courses and I believe every expert should use it.
Just do the work once and unlimited people will benefit beyond just inspiration
You're right, we've done a few cours on site, introducing soil technics. But it was quite time consuming. Online course can be a more efficient way to spread the words.
Wonderful!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I really love this
Wonderful and inspiring work, do you do outside projects?
Very nice 👍
Beautiful
beautiful💕
This is gorgeous 😍
Wow beautiful!
I love this,i would like to have it in Kenya
Inspirational!
That green roof uses a good bit of manufactured steel.
I agree with you it's still to much. BUT. Compare to concrete structure it's not much actually and the problem with concrete is that you will never take it back from the building. It will become trash or it will request lots of effort and energy to get it back and to process it to make it usable again. On this project, the walls will one day go back to nature, then the steel will still be available for another structure or for an easy recycling. I'm sure there is ways to avoid steel, but it was not possible in this case. The aim was to give a good thermal mass to the building to avoid any heating or cooling system, so we took the decision the make a thick green roof. Which means heavy loads that wood wouldn't carry on sufficient distance. So we agree, perfect solution does not exist and will never, but we can improve it. If you have suggestion about another way to do, I will be happy to think about it and to try it. All the best.
@@damshuyb1879 good points. Didn't mean to sound quibling -
This is incredibly inspiring! Do you build these structures upon demand? How does one approach you for assistance with a project?
Hi, thank you for your feedback. You can contact our architecture office via our website. www.glh.co.za
So beautiful
Amazing idea
Magnificent
Impressive!
Beautiful work..need to learn more ..when working with stone what do you add to the mortar to hold the stones
Hi, you just need a good amount of clay in your soil, but the critical point is the way you fit the stones into the wall.
Awesome.....
Actually I have a lot of wish to make a building of 20 floors as like ur
Look at Shibam adobe city in Yemen. But only 11floors. 🙃
came sharp.
Hello Dams. What are the possibilities of a project like this in Namibia? I might consider this as one of my options for a project I got in Namibia. I’d like to know the cost total for this project in South African Rands excluding the land. Please kindly get back to me. Appreciate it
And how much time for full project completion
Hi Gil, a project like this is about the same cost as a conventional project. It's cheaper on materials but more experience on labor (labor intensive). For the timing it all depends on machinery that you include in your project (earth moving machine and other mechanical process). In this case we choose to give work to more workers than using more machine... At the end the cost is the quite the same but the impact (human and environment) and the timing are different.
You can contact our architecture office based in Johannesburg if you need more informations or if you want us to follow your project. www.glh.co.za
Thank you very much
this is a really well done project.what material did you use for the columns?
Hi, we have steel I beams but also two rammed soil columns with layers of brick force in it.
I would love to build something like this in The Gambia, does anyone have any contact details for builders that use these techniques in The Gambia?
cound you plz tell me engreedients of eco wall plaster ?
Soil, water and more or less grass and sand. More grass less sand or more sand less grass. Both are helping preventing cracks when it's fully dry.
On top of that you can paint with a swedish paint made out of soil.
Some have eyes that see
❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙
This is a white man house and therefore not African.
I love the way you build and think about every detail in this Eco-Building, specially teaching locals in this friendly way. Have you thought of taking all this experience abroad?
Magnificent