Blog – BIØN

October 17, 2018

#Ø Traveling Exhibition!

The retrospective exhibition about the LearnBIØN project is already traveling around Europe. Maybe it will pass somewhere near you. Stay connected! :::Itinerary::: 8th September till 3rd October ...

October 17, 2018

#Ø LearnBIØN Exhibition is on the road

After the first exhibition in Montemor-o-Novo, it follows to Caceres at Colegio Oficial de Aparejadores e Architectos Tecnicos de Caceres from November 7th till the 23rd. It all started with a preview at Lavadouros on the 18th ...

August 20, 2018

#7 Party at Montemor-o-Novo! 1st LearnBIØN cycle concluded!

Last weekend the first cycle of LearnBIØN, the training program conceived by seven European partner organisations which included six practical workshops, has been concluded. Representatives from all involved organisations ...

August 18, 2018

#7 Final event in Montemor-o-Novo

Since last Monday all the BIØN partners are gathering again in Montemor-o-Novo for the final event of LearnBIØN. For one week most of the building techniques applied during the workshops held by the network during the last two ...

July 25, 2018

#7 apply to the last LearnBIØN workshop and final reflection

After almost two years of workshops, travels, meetings, a lot of sharing and, of course, a lot of caring, it´s time to set a closure for this first LearnBIØN cycle. Therefore, a week of knowledge sharing, critical ...

July 05, 2018

#5 Inauguration of the library at Valverde

After workshop BI0N#5, we finished the construction: a rammed earth parapet was built, the wooden structure of the roof was set and the different layers of the green roof were installed. In the interior, a lime concrete slab was ...

July 02, 2018

#6 Wooden windows and low tech finishing

The forth week, has been dedicated to close the opening with old windows that were ready to be demolished. We decided to recycle more than 60 square meters of windows to give the good transparency to the building and we worked on ...

June 24, 2018

#1 Timber doors with local wood

May was the month were the CEB "Nests" got in contact with timber. A carpentry workshop was held to build the doors to each nest. The workshop was facilitated by a friend of the Nests coming from Switzerland to share he´s fine ...

June 23, 2018

#6 Plastering and finishing details

The third week starts with a little changing of the participants, and few more mosquitos. The bottle walls had to be completed and each bottle had to be properly clean. It was a meditative job, which gave the expected result of a ...