Tamera
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Tamera is a self proclaimed peace research village with the goal of becoming "a self-sufficient, sustainable and duplicable communitarian model for nonviolent cooperation and cohabitation between huma
Aerial shot of the village
The lake in front of the Monte Cerro campus
Lake 1 of the Rainwater harvesting landscape in Tamera, Portugal
The straw bale and clay Great Hall
Straw
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Straw is an agricultural byproduct consisting of the dry stalks of cereal plants after the grain and chaff have been removed. It makes up about half of the yield by weight of cereal crops such as barl
Tamera
…but in quite a number of light-roof pavilions in other locations. The Great Hall in Tamera is a meeting place for up to 300 people. It is a wood-frame, straw bale, clay, and green roof construction. With its harmonic interior structure, it is the largest straw bale and clay building on the Iberian Peninsula. In…
Bundles of rice straw
Pile of stacked small rectangular straw bales sheltered under a clear tarpaulin
Straw lines and a combine harvester
A traditional method of storing wheat hay in Punjab