Natural BuildingResidency

Tiny Home Building Residency

Fornos Ecosystem Collective · Fornos de Algodres, Portugal

Three weeks framing a tiny home from locally milled timber while a degraded Portuguese valley comes back to life around you.

Frame a real tiny home from local timberLearn joinery, structure, and roofingLive with a regeneration collective

What you'll learn

Frame a small timber structure end to end
Cut confident joints and raise walls
Understand off-grid systems for tiny homes

What the land gains

A timber-framed tiny home built for the collective
Native trees planted to stabilise eroded slopes

The host site

Fornos Ecosystem Collective

A rewilding cottage in a recovering Portuguese valley

A restored heritage cottage sits within a collective working to bring a degraded valley back to life. Tiny-home builds, native planting, and hands-on regeneration are all part of daily life here.

Your teacher

Jonas Berg

Timber framer & tiny-home builder

4.9 · 47 reviews · 9 yrs teaching