is a studio devoted to working with bio-based and geo-based materials, exploring how we can connect and better understand the natural matter, which surrounds us. The practice investigates this by curating engaging workshops, allowing participants to get to know different natural materials and empowering them to become skilled material caretakers. The studio undertakes projects, which allow the materiality to return back to earth at the end of its life, completing the cycle and becoming compost for new things to grow from them.

Kompost Hub is founded by Ania Chorzepa, who is an architectural designer, builder, researcher, and educator with a deep focus on natural materials—particularly earth and fibre. Originally from Poland, she began her architectural career in England, where she studied (BArch + MArch, Leicester School of Architecture) and worked in architectural design. Driven by a strong desire to align her work with ecological values, she relocated to Austria to study a postgraduate degree at BASEhabitat (MSc Architecture), a centre for natural building, where she gained both practical and technical experience in bio-based and geo-based materials. Ania has continued to expand her practice through hands-on work with a renowned earth architect Anna Heringer, as well as through building alongside experienced clay craftspeople and regularly participating in natural building workshops across Europe. Now, based in Germany and balancing her work with motherhood, Ania’s practice centers on teaching natural building workshops, research and building with compostable materials.