EHV - Kauppila Farm Museum - Traditional Wood Techniques
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21.07.2019 — 02.08.2019
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The Kauppila farm is a monument of south-west Finnish vernacular building tradition and museum of agricultural life. The farm is preserved in situ at its original location in the medieval village of Koukkela. The oldest buildings in the farm complex date back to the 17th century. The farm was owned by the Kauppila family for over 200 years, and remained inhabited until the 1950ies. Today, Kauppila functions as a living museum. The project will be very intensive and consist of two parts – a practical working part and a study part. The practical working part, which will be at different parts of the site, will last six hours per day. In the evenings and during the weekend, educational and cultural activities will take place. The maintenance of wooden architecture requires constant renewal of building materials and knowledge of traditional skills and materials. The volunteers will be able to experience and learn about the methods and challenges of preserving traditional wooden architecture in the north. In particular, they will learn to repair and renew wood shingle roofs and the method of building traditional fences from young spruce trunks. If there will be time left also some timber reparations might be carried out. The main building of Kauppila farm is painted with a red paint that is characteristic for the North, especially for Finland and Sweden. The water-based red paint has been easy to cook from mostly basic household materials, with only pigment added. It is very well-suited for wooden surfaces as it does not form a dense layer. Within the framework of the project, the participants will learn how to produce the red paint, cooking it over an open fire for several hours, and repaint the main building.
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The volunteers will help to conserve traditional northern wooden architecture in the museum.
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