Crowdfunding – What’s in it for you
we need your help to get started
Help us
As a Design With Nature crowdfunder you are priviliged and will enjoy this Nubian mudbrick house, a simple beauty on its own. Crowdfunding can help us realizing this project.
Choosing one of the pledges below will help us to build this mudbrick house in time, setting out on an exciting tranquile place to slow down from 24/7. Any support is greatly appreciated.
Paypal or International Bank Transfer
You can make your donation by clicking on one of the donate buttons below. Each reward has a button. Once you click on it, you will be automatically diverted to Paypal. If you do not have a PayPal account, no worries since you can pay with your credit card on the PayPal website in a simple way.
By bank transfer
If you prefer to help us by transferring money direct to the project in Egypt:
Bank: Commercial International Bank, 33 Sherif Street from Abdel Khalid Tharwat Street, Downtown Cairo, Egypt
International Bank Account Number (euro) (IBAN): 100017399847
Bank Identification Code (BIC): CIBEEGCX005
Account: willemientje den oudsten
Your privileges and rewards
As a crowdfunder you may really participate in building the house in Egypt with your hands in the soil.
It gives you the opportunity to work on site together with our local workmen supervised by master masons Ahmed Abdallah and Ahmed Soliman who will explain and learn you how to build vaults and domes with mudbricks.
Check our workshops programme at My Design With Nature. Meet our local Design With Nature Team.
Come to the Egyptian oasis to discover Design With Nature. Choose your nature weekend, week or workshop.
If you prefer to interact with us from your comfortable chair at home we will provide the project with a live stream camera so you can see how we work with limestone rocks, mud, sand, straw and water.
Jump-start your craftsmanship. Upcoming workshop schedule.
* different colors & sizes for men and women, exclusively made for Design With Nature by Dutch Design Company
** made & signed by potter Hosni Mohamed, specially designed for Design With Nature
*** sketch © Ahmad Hamid architect, limited edition (4 of 5 left)
**** limited edition (4 of 5 left) specially designed by potter Mahmoud el Sherif for Design With Nature
***** limited edition book (4 of 5 left), documenting the project. It has an original mud cover, numbered and signed, specially designed for Design With Nature by willemien den oudsten Dutch Design Company
Add shipping costs outside Egypt
(4) – (9) Add € 15 to ship outside Egypt
(10) Add € 40 to ship outside Egypt
(11) and (12) Free shipping anywhere in the world
needed – time, energy, hands in the earth, working in and with nature
looking for – your enthusiasm and donations
offered – adventure, warm feelings, beautiful design, entrance and access to building site, an experience and more …
crowdfunders – may follow the development of all the hard work on site or sitting in their comfortable chairs and see the progress, the (video) blogs about the building proces, interviews with local workmen and experts and discussions with the audience and interested people
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