Makunaima - building style from the ancient ones

The clay village changes its shape from time to time ... another reason to see it, if you stay in Berlin during summer month - our space may be a good alternative.

Every summer we gather from different cities and built a family-like team.

Go to Makunaima-project

Earthen huts and sculptures

In self-built ensembles of village-like structures we interact with
children of all ages, playing and building with earth and serving
a magical kind of service toward cultural heritage. This work is
important in our big cities, where so many inhabitants have lost
their connection to the soil.

Our standard earth-construction-workshop - open to anyone -
lasts six weeks during summer school holidays and has been
continued since 1990.

We started with simple sticks and mud constructions. We
continued with archaic huts, like people might have constructed,
when they started to live outside of caves. Quickly we
developed our own style of sculpture, our buildings resembled
large animals, earthen heads, as the Maya created, and native
igloo type of huts.

Actually our village is reconnecting to the roots and heritage of
architecture in its development. We use something, very old,
pure earth, the most likely first building material, always from
local sources.

Our kind of teamwork brings a spirit of community and
identification with the structure in the process of building a hut
or house. Teamwork brings a spirit of community to the
participants and develops identification to the…made my own
hands…process. In this way a playground is created with those
that are going to use it later.

Makunaima 2011:  30.6. - 7.8. daily!

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See the actual works

See 'Spielpalast"

See the team!