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TIBÁ AT BIOCONSTRUINDO 2005
 

 

Among more than 70 students and the IPEC crew at the BioConstruindo 2005, Johan and Peter van Lengen introducing and putting in practice a CASCAJE workshop.

On the first night of the event, Johan van lengen gave a lecture on our reality and the language we use to interpret it.

 

  
TIBÁ IN CHAPADA DIAMANTINA
 

 

Panorama from Dipankara, place where the TIBÁ crew is helping design a new Buddhist monastery.

Old house of abode in the city center of Mucuge.

  

 

Street in Mucuge, a city that showed interested in the use of the BASON on the trails of the park preserve and in the urban reduction of sewage.

In Salvador and we saw the alternative use for the canal roofing tile, now the exterior wall suffers no humidity.

  
WORKSHOP OF BIOARCHITECTURE IN SALVADOR
 

 
 

Salvador of Bahia - the students of Post-graduation of the Amec Trabuco College at the end of three intense days of bio-architecture. Subjects, with emphasis in the ALPHA proces- to project with intuition, bamboo, adobe, green roofs and PLASTO were introduced. The group enjoyed the exercises of unlearning and the awakening of the right side of the brain.

  


 
PROJECT BASON IN PRAINHA DO CANTO VERDE
 

BASON WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

The team of Tibá spent 4 days in Prainha do Canto Verde carrying out a BASON (compost toilet) workshop.

The project brings low cost solutions to environmental reparation. It was attended by representatives of 5 communities of Ceará, Brazilian Northeast that are: Prainha do Canto Verde, municipality of Beberibe, Lagamar and Planalto Pici of Fortaleza, Camurim of Itaiçaba and Nova Esperança of Aracati.

 

With the objective of qualifying the communities in the construction of a compost toilet, the architect and founder of TIBÁ Johan van Lengen, who has lived for 15 years in BraziI, instructed the participants how to make the concrete plates, to mount them, the instalation of the accessories (ventilation tubes and lids), developing and completing the first ecological toilet of the State of Ceará.

The beauty of the Bason is its operation, with zero use of water and it conserves the water table clean of the traditional sewer system methods, serious problem in the region. The Bason was accepted with enthusiasm by the representatives of the communities as a great solution.

The system will be implanted in those five communities that possess different scenarios in the State (costal/urban/rural). Educational materials will be developed to promote the use and acceptance of this technology and to inform the population of the importance of hygiene.

"The use of this method will be accompanied during one year by technicians, health inspectors and community leaders" affirms René Schärer, founder of the Institute Terramar, coordinator of the project.

The results will be considered and presented to national and international health organizations, government entities and the civil society of Brazil. The benefitted communities will become beacons for similar works in other areas of the state and country.