Fascinating day spent learning to sand cast bronze treehouse hardware with Tom at the Free Spirit Spheres foundry.
| Location: | Free Spirit Spheres, Qualicum Bay, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | June 2019 |
Casting Bronze
Natural Building Colloquium
Mark Fleischhaker, P.Eng., was a speaker at the 2019 Natural Building and Ecological Design Colloquium at OUR Ecovillage where he
- shared his takeaways from focusing his engineering work on meaningful structures over the past 4 years
- contributed to a panel discussion
- taught the basics of structural systems to natural building enthusiasts
“Rocking OUR world and the full house of builders, designers, and all at the ‘Natural Building and Ecological Design Colloquium’ is a most amazing Engineer who understands and supports natural building through regulatory processes and helps teach us all what we need to understand to create health, safety and permitted natural buildings!” – Brandy Gallagher
Other speakers and contributors included natural building heavyweights Mark Lakeman (City Repair Project), Mudgirls Natural Building Collective, Elke Cole, Benito Stein, Athena Stein, Patrick Hennebery (Cobworks), Eco-Sense, and the several of the next generation.
| Location: | OUR Ecovillage, Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | June 2019 |
Westcoast Small Home Expo
Mark Fleischhaker, P.Eng., was a speaker at the 2019 The Westcoast Small Home Expo where he taught the basics of structural systems to small home enthusiasts on the Tiny Home Village Stage.
What role does engineering play in the design of your tiny house? When planning your tiny home, it’s important to take into account things like structural elements, load paths, and stability. These things don’t need to be complicated. Mark shares his years of experience by demonstrating these key principles that will help you better understand and improve your tiny home’s structure.
| Location: | Tradex, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | May 2019 |
Kumbhaka
Mark Fleischhaker has been converting a 1973 Argosy 24′ into an off-grid mobile working and living space. It incorporates repurposed, natural, and healthier material choices as best he can.
| Location: | Everywhere, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | April 2016 – Present |
| Album: | Kumbha |