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Dindang
natural building school, established by Rewat Thongbunchu
AKA Bow, is in a small village called
Paksong, in the Phato district of southern Thailand. Most
people in the village work in one of the many small
plantations growing fruit, palm and rubber trees. The village
is surrounded by mountains, waterfalls and vast areas of lush
rainforest that in places have reclaimed past civilisations. |
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Rewat introduces the natural
building school: see video button above
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The buildings at Dindang are made with a variety
of natural building methods, among them bamboo wattle and daub,
cob, adobe and palm thatching with decorative plaster designs,
called pargeting, portraying the rainforest that surrounds the
village. Unfortunately, as modern building methods were introduced
in the Phato area, the traditional techniques of clay house
building were largely forgotten. By setting up a natural building
school, Dindang hopes to bring back the traditional building
knowledge to the community to
make life easy again.
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