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Varvara is Bulgarian, she grew up in Bulgaria and Algeria and has graduated as an architect in Grenoble (France) in 2002. Afterwards she specialized in earth construction at the Research Center for Earthen Architecture (CRATerre) in Grenoble. She has participated in several missions in the framework of an UNESCO partnership with CRATerre in Africa and Central Asia. Varvara is currently working in a small architecture office specialized in ecological building in The Hague, Netherlands.
Markus is German, he studied physics in Germany, Spain and France and has obtained his PhD in applied optics in Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2004. His doctoral work was studying a recently developed biomedical imaging technology called Optical Coherence Tomography. Markus is currently a Marie-Curie fellow working on optical techniques for personal care and health applications at Philips Research in the Netherlands.
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| Having discovered earth construction as a traditional and yet very modern way of building in France, we realized that earth associated with wood and stone is also omnipresent in Bulgarian vernacular architecture.
In order to renew ties with these ancient building techniques, to promote their unique qualities in terms of heat and humidity regulation and to experiment with modern interpretations, we have acquired a small traditional farm in the central Rhodopi mountains in Bulgaria: Rahovitza
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