Earth Architecture from Indigenous Knowledge & Lunar Engineering
Uma aula de 8 semanas ensinando como construir estruturas duráveis, baratas, usando terra abundante — conhecimento indígena + engenharia lunar + GTCT.
An 8-week guided cohort course teaching how to build durable, low-cost structures using abundant earth — indigenous knowledge + lunar engineering + GTCT.
Instructor: Pablo Grossi · 2026
AXLE is a guided cohort model: you learn and build together with your peers. Each week, you attend a 90-minute live session, work on conceptual material, do hands-on lab work, and complete a real challenge. By Week 5, you're building a community prototype. By Week 8, you're ready to build your own structure on your land.
Capstone: You design a structure for your site, calculate loads, source materials, mobilize community volunteers, and defend your project to engineers and neighbors. Upon completion, you hold the knowledge and skill to teach others.
From termite mounds to GTCT: how nature optimizes structure.
Binding, compression, and the phase transition from soil to stone.
Branching, angles, and the critical loads that structures can bear.
Water, temperature, decay — how structures age and how to design for it.
Hands-on: foundation, walls, and structural testing in real time.
Finishing: roof, doors, windows, and scaling to individual designs.
Scale up: each participant finalizes their design, materials list, and build plan.
Final capstone: technical defense and community pitch for your structure.
Concrete and steel consume 16% of global CO2. Biosynthetic earth building uses only local materials and human labor. It works: termite mounds outlast civilizations. Moon base designs use regolith (dust) binding. Indigenous Krenac and Maxakali peoples built structures 500+ years ago that stand today.
This course teaches the science and practice. You will leave with a design, a community, and the knowledge to build structures that strengthen with time.