Arhiterra is a workgroup founded in December 2005 by a number of architects, members of the O.A.R. (Romanian Architects Order), proposing a sensitive yet much-welcomed topic: the contemporary way of living joint with the present environmental policies – traditional construction techniques, natural materials, alternative habitats and efficient use of resources under extreme conditions.
Casa-Verde (Greenhouse), Sasca Romana (www.casa-verde.ro) is a cob house started in 2004 by arch. Ileana Mavrodin.
Winter 2008 at Casa-Verde
Winter 2008 at Casa-verde
Inside Casa-Verde - the clay oven
Inside Casa-Verde
Winter at Casa-Verde - over the oven
Casa-Verde - inside detail
Casa-Verde - environement: Valea Beiului
Casa-Verde - environement: Valea Susarei
Cap Dolosman, Jurilovca. The workshop "LUT" (CLAY) was began in 2006 in the Danube Delta. It was built here in collaboration with HAR Foundation two houses with loambricks. The idea was to experiment living in extrem condition and build safe and healthy with local and natural material.
Cap Dolosman, Jurilovca
Cap Dolosman, Jurilovca - thatched roof
Tibanesti - 2 weeks workshop in 2007 for renovating and remodeling existing houses, with natural material. The first house
Tibanesti - the second house
Tibanesti - wattle for wall
Tibanesti - the project
Tibanesti - carpentery workshop: old door restauration
Tibanesti - new chair design
Tibanesti - the participants
Tibanesti - environement
Piscu - pottery vilage - old house
Piscu - pottery vilage - old pottery oven
Piscu - pottery vilage - neu pottery oven
Inside the new oven
Piscu - make pottery
Piscu - pottery vilage - neu clay oven
Bran - loambricks' press
Bran - loambricks' masonry
Bran - environement
Sinca Veche -road protection with wattle
Sinca Veche - experimental wattle wall
Sinca Veche - dog's house
Sinca Veche - reinforcement of the streambanks with wood
Arhiterra meetings
