Habitat
Designing and building a healthy, durable and economical habitat, from local materials and proven techniques.
Why a healthy and bioclimatic habitat
Housing oneself with dignity should depend neither on costly supply chains nor on imported carbon-intensive materials. By reviving traditional techniques that modernity wrongly set aside, and combining them with bioclimatic design, we build comfortable, low-energy and repairable habitats. Equalium gives a living demonstration of it and passes on the skills.
Design
Passive and bioclimatic housing, thermal management, orientation and passive solar.
Techniques
Self-building, traditional timber assembly, natural cements and materials, ecological insulation, ancient dry construction.
Systems
Ecological plumbing and drainage, passive cooling, drought management.
Design
Before building, we design with the climate rather than against it: orientation, thermal mass, natural ventilation, passive solar. A well-designed house stays cool in summer, mild in winter, and consumes very little — we demonstrate how to design a healthy and economical habitat, suited to its place.
Techniques
We revive proven techniques — self-building, traditional timber joinery, raw earth, natural cements and materials, ecological insulation, ceramics — by combining them with modern tools. Know-how that is accessible, repairable and transmissible to communities.
Systems
A living habitat is also its systems: ecological plumbing and drainage, water recovery and treatment, passive cooling, drought management. We show how to make a house autonomous and resilient, down to its technical details.
Contributes to SDG 11 — sustainable and resilient communities.
Support the project
Help the foundation build its centre of demonstration and training.