Community Architecture

New Houses for Tamera

From March 29th-April 1st 60 architecture students from Darmstadt (Germany) and Lisbon visited Tamera. This study time was initiated by Professor Carl Fingerhuth from Switzerland. The students had the task to learn about the basic principles of Tamera, to study the landscape conditions and the ecological and social conditions set by the community, and to design architectural projects for communal living. They focused on the co-worker areas of the Testfield 1 and of the Country House (Landhaus). more...

 

Aldeia da Luz

Tamera is going to have a new village …

Aldeia da Luz is the name of a new village being built in Tamera. Part of it has already been completed, such as the “Three Arch House”. Now eight women joint to construct two important buildings. more...

 

The path of the Anakonda: When buildings learn to dance.

Tamera designer Martin Pietsch combines music and architecture – this year (2008) also at the Boom-Festival in Portugal.

Boom gets a new wrapping. Like every two years, music and art festival “Boom” will attract thousands of goa and trance lovers to Idanha-a-Nova in Portugal - this year from 11th-18th of August, 2008. “Trail of the anaconda”, “Oscillating plate” or “Quo Vadis” are names of the floating drafts of Martin Pietsch, who designed a shade roof compositions along 1.5 km of lakeside promenade, a ferry port, a speakers tent and a common eating site. more...

 

Earth, Straw and Grass: The re-discovery of ecological building material

Experimental buildings in Tamera / part 1

On Saturday, April 12th 2008, the Tamera Peace Research Center near Colos invited interested people to get to know different experimental straw-bale/adobe buildings on its site. Gernot Minke, professor for adobe building at the University of Kassel, Germany, was there and explained the advantages of this technique. (Photo: Sol e Adobe. Nigel Dickinson) more...