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Walter Segal pioneered a fast track way for communities
to build quickly and cheaply, timber-framed dwellings
which are environmentally friendly.
The Walter Segal trust services are available to everyone,
especially those in housing need or on low incomes, including
local authorities, housing associations and any other
body interested in building.
History:
Walter Segal was brought up in an alternative community
called 'Monte Verita', the Mountain of Truth in Switzerland
during the 1900's, where he lived until he studied architecture
among the pioneers of the Modern Movement in Delft, Berlin
and Paris.
This inspired him to look at buildings in a new way.
Walter came to London in 1936 and teamed up with Eva Bradt,
a student from the Architectural Association School, he
took on small jobs here and wrote books on selfbuild and
cooperative housing, it wasn't until the 1970's that a
community cooperative housing scheme put his system into
practice.
Today The Walter Segal trust trains and offers advice
to selfbuild groups and individuals.
Key
elements:
*These are timber frame houses designed to be relatively
simple to construct and therefore amenable to a low skill
self-build process.
*Non toxic materials used.
*Catchment of rainwater and thermal capture.
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