Pizza Oven and Natural Building Workshop

A fundraiser for EBANZ (Earth Building Association of New Zealand)
The workshop will cover all you need to know to build your own clay based cob pizza oven. From design and set out, to required materials, processing, mixing and construction, in a fun supportive and social environment.

You can use the workshop just to learn how to make a pizza oven, but it is also a great introduction to some of the materials and techniques used in “Natural Building” – an approach to architecture and building that seeks sustainable, environmentally and human friendly building solutions, using minimally processed, abundant, non toxic raw materials namely: clay, sand, stone, natural fibres and wood.

Workshop co-ordinators:

Blue Forsyth. 027 3806378
With a passion for natural building developed over more than 25 years, Blue has worked on a wide variety of building projects using cob, straw bale and adobe (mud) brick including the restoration of some of our country’s most treasured earth based heritage buildings. A former committee member of EBANZ Blue, also wrote and taught a certificate course in Natural Building for the Aoraki Polytechnic in South Canterbury.

Tom Beauchamp. 021 1211321
Originally trained as a sculptor, after many years working in the visual and performing arts Tom is now a Licenced Building Practitioner (carpentry), building eco houses in the Kapiti and Horowhenua area using Straw Bale, Adobe, Cob and natural plasters.