„Understand bamboo’s role in sustainable architecture and design.“
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Workshop Details:
- Price: $1,200 (cabina) or $ 900 (tent)
- Price for Ticos (Costa Rican): $ 930 (cabina) or $ 650 (tent)
- Price includes teaching, accommodation, three meals daily, tea and coffee.
Course content:
- You learn about the correct planting, harvesting, treating and drying of the bamboo.
- You gain knowledge about design, making lashing, joining, angle cutting and making bamboo nails, etc.
- You will learn about the valuable and fast growing grass bamboo, it’s sustainability and uniqueness.
- You will realize how valuable a healthy sleep can be in a home made house, build out of adobe/clay.
Upcoming course dates are as follows
Date 1
June 13 – June 20, 2025
Date 2
July 25 – August 1, 2025
Date 3
September 19 – September 26, 2025
In Part 1 you will learn:
- to treat bamboo
- to recognize which bamboo is ready to harvest
- to make connections
- to make lashings
- to make a small furniture (bench or frame of mirror)
- to make holes in the bamboo
In Part 2 you will learn:
- to work with clay/adobe
- to recognize which clay you have to use
- to make a floor out of clay
- to make the last plaster
- to make ultimate plaster finish
- to prepare clay with different techniques
Testimonials – What people have to say about the course
Kilian Knoll
Austria
„I did never work with bamboo before and I learned you can do anything with bamboo. You really showed me, that everything is possible.“
Santiago Padilla
Mexico
„Me gustó mucho que el curso fuera tan práctico. El programa me parecía ambicioso pero lo cubrimos bien en realidad“
Kristiyan Genchin
Bulgary
„I really liked the course. We learned many different things and I learned a little bit more how to work with my hands wich is very important.“
Reservation request for the Bamboo Workshop at Finca Renacer
Rodolfo Sáenz
info@fincarenacer.com
+506 8740 6590