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Workshops
Summer workshop series
The Summer of Junk and Earth.
DesignBuildBLUFF will launch its first session of summer workshops. Come explore the elements, techniques and philosophies we’ve spent 10 years learning. Rammed Earth, Repurposing, Hand-Plastering, Rethinking the Built Reality. Join us for one week, or three.
To sign up for workshops, please visit the registration page.
All workshops will be complemented with dips in the pond, cool beverages in the shade, walks to prehistoric ruins, and plentiful stargazing.
Workshops include seven nights of lodging, dinner and all workshop supplies.
Cost: $800 - Student, Family, and Senior Discounts available
Workshop Week 1
Cradle to Cradle =Waste equals Food=Composting Privy
June 26 - July 2
Bluff, Utah
This is not your hippie grandmama’s composting outhouse. Join us as we work through design charretes and closed circle philosophies to create an unflushable architecture. We will use re-claimed materials and an artists touch. The ultimate in repurposing: an artful, design-conscious, eco-centered composting outhouse.
Led by DBB Founder, Architect Hank Louis.
Appropriate for students and artists of all ages and inclinations.
Workshop Week 2
Mastering Earthen Plaster: an introduction to the art of hand plastering, or, getting dirty with purpose.
July 10 - 16
Bluff, Utah
In Japan it takes a decade for Plaster Masters to earn the title of “master”. For those masters, playing in the mud transforms into fine art. We’ll dirty our hands with the idea by traipsing about the red rock desert collecting, sifting and mixing different sands to create the perfect mud (in just the right color) for plastering epiphanies.
Led by DBB’s resident plastering artisans: Atsushi Yamamoto and Hiroko Osigo.
Appropriate for all who enjoy playing in the mud, and perhaps those who think they don’t.
Workshop Week 3
Riverwalk Perch and Shade Contemplation Stop
July 24 - 30
Bluff, Utah
We’ve a wonderful design problem: The Bluff Historical Group desires a river walk. With the waters edge free from tamarisk, the time is here. Our design challenge will be outwitting flooding as we design the artifact that will trumpet the beginning of an official river walk. A contemplation stop at the confluence? A piece of shaded “furniture” that might float with the annual fall flooding? Let’s discuss it. The are no great solutions without first defining a great problem. We’ve been served. Come enjoy the angling -- design angling, unfortunately the only kind that exists in this beat of the mighty San Juan River.
Led by DBB Founder, Architect Hank Louis.
Appropriate for: Architecture students, DBB alumni, DBB hopefuls -- essentially everyone who has ever uttered that he/she always wanted to be an architect (you know who you are).
Workshop Week 4
Bike down and build up a bike shop
July 31 - August 6
Bluff, Utah
In collaboration with Dan Austin of 88bikes.org, you will help design and build a functional bike shop wich will be used for maintenane and repairs of bikes donated to local students of Montezuma Creek.
Led by DesignBuildBLUFF staff.
Appropriate for DBB alumni and DBB prospective participants.
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