Sanctuary Carpentry

Sanctuary Carpentry is about creative building, functional meets natural design, and trying to keep wastage low. With a keen passion for Earthship design and its innovative technologies, we dream of a future where Earthship and Natural Buildings aren’t a stranger to the inner city.
We are available for clever, eco-minded projects in and around Melbourne, and occasional travel for special builds.

Tommy Dodd
Carpenter
Earthships
Permaculture
Cob

Want a house?
Or a sanctuary.
A home you can absolutely live in.
Thrive in.
Relax, create, connect, eat, play, work in, do your life in, and share it as you feel.

Why isn’t passive solar, natural light, sound privacy and running on renewables a standard in Australian homes?
Why aren’t pioneers of new technologies, energy awareness, earth restoring buildings revered as superheroes yet?
When will the mainstream get it?
We gonna sit around and wait, or we gonna build the future?

Since 2020 a qualified carpenter, based in Melbourne, working in all kinds of carpentry and building like house renovations, bathrooms, decks to kids playgrounds and landscaping carpentry.
Before that an apprenticeship on the Great Ocean Road area of Victoria building timber frame and straw bale houses with Creations In Parallel.
My life changed in January 2014 when I attended a workshop at Martin Freney’s Earthship in Ironbank, SA.
Already experienced in landscaping and construction, I then began to collect a diverse array of building experience with lots of Natural Building. Attending the Earthship Academy with the great Earthship Biotecture, in Taos, New Mexico, completing 3 PDC’s in NSW, and travelling Australia for 2 years teaching and learning on many Natural Building workshops including Earthship, Cob, Super Adobe, Tiny Houses, and Permaculture.