The first International Earth Building Festival jointly organized by 1U1V team of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Faculty of Architecture and City Planning, Kunming University of Science and Technology, came to a close on June 26, 2018. The event lasted for eight days. It was attended by a total 24 participants from various countries, such as Canada, Japan, USA, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia. During the event, the 1U1V team invited two French specialists in earth construction, Mr. Marc Auzet and Ms. Juliette Goudy, and Prof. Bai Wenfeng, who specializes in the seismic performance study of building structures at Kunming University of Science and Technology to provide professional guidance.

This Festival covered three aspects: rammed-earth construction materials, rammed-earth construction technology and the practice of earth construction. It aims to provide an opportunity for participants to get close to the construction site of an earth building and deepen their understainding of thematerial and method.

The main activities of the Festival are as follows:

1. Lectures: new anti-seismic rammed earth house construction technology given by two French experts and an introduction of the feasibility study of anti-seismic rammed earth building and the threat of traditional earth building in Yunnan given by Prof. Bai.
2. On-site visit to 1U1V Research Center to learn about its construction progress.
3. Production of three adobe bricks and soil testing which allows participants to experience the properties and viscosityof different soils and its condition after drying.
4. Visit traditional earth building villages (Wulongpu Village and Haicang Village) to learn about the housing conditions of typical local villages in Yunnan.
5. Build self-design structures with clay of different properties through group cooperation.

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