📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
You will participate in the construction and maintenance of semi sustainable eco-housings in the garden of the Château des Prureaux. The association Le Créneau, which manages the site, develops eco-housings since 2014 to promote sustainable development towards people who live there and the locals. There are two eco-housings that can accommodate 4 to 8 people, dry toilets and a phyto-purification station that need regular maintenance. The association wishes to continue this year with the construction of a new collective eco-housing. Each eco-housing is designed with local materials and uses a different technique.
The group will be made of 8 international volunteers and a group of 6 French youngsters.
💼 What the programme involves
You will participate in the construction of a geodesic dome (simple structure of semi-permanent housing). The basic structure of the dome already exists in spare parts. During the workcamp, you will create the foundations on piles thanks to recycled aggregates, assemble the structure of the dome and conceive its roofing with local and ecological materials (wood or coated made of earth and straw).
Apart from this work, you will participate in the annual maintenance of the wooden geodesic dome checking the framing waterproofness and installing a ground insulation.
You will also participate in the organization of collective life and the preparation of meals.
🏠 Accommodation on site
in big dorm tents (with 6 to 8 beds) or in a eco-housing (4 to 12 beds). Collective life will take place in the castle.
📍 About the location
Leisure activities will be organized and chosen collectively by the group. This project will allow you to meet youngsters from all over the world and French people, to discover the rural lifestyle, to make city trips (Vichy, Moulins) and to visit some tourist attractions in the region. Visits to local farms (biodynamic miller, permaculture gardening, organic brewery) are easily accessible from the castle of Les Prureaux. The association created a permanent bike workshop to facilitate environmentally-friendly transport around the site.