Blog – BIØN

September 03, 2020

BIØN² #1 Fourth week in Villasbuenas: plastering with clay and lime, placing the tiles and…celebrating !

This fourth and last week of Workshop BIØN² #1 Design&Build with Straw Bales was full of intense work, in order to be able to open the “Casita de Paja” to the local community on ...

August 26, 2020

BIØN² #1 Third week in Villasbuenas: placing the roof slabs and starting plastering the walls

This third week of workshop started with a key step: placing the cork insulated core slabs to build the roof of the “Casita de Paja”. With the help of a crane truck, we first put a 6m long ridge beam on which we installed and ...

August 19, 2020

BIØN²#1 Second week of the workshop: placing the straw panels onsite

With the great help of the local community to move the prefab elements to the building site (one of the advantages of a rural areas is that “almost everybody” has a tractor!), we could start this week to place the straw ...

August 12, 2020

BIØN²#1 Launching the workshop: the prefab’ factory

After several weeks of intense preparation work and uncertainty due to the Covid-19 crisis, we are finally pleased to announce that Workshop BIØN² #1 Design&Build with Straw Bales has started! Our 18 participants coming ...

June 09, 2020

BIØN²#1 Design and Build with Straw Bales

Organized by miga - ACTYVA, from August 3rd until August 30th 2020, the workshop Design and Build with Straw Bales (prefabricated panels) will take place in the north of Extremadura (Spain) in Villasbuenas de ...

February 12, 2020

Learn BIØN² 2019-2022

We are glad to announce that the new Learn BIØN² project has been approved by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. We are looking forward for the new challenges and to spread Building Impact Zero Techniques with a ...

January 15, 2020

Erasmus+ Good Practices Award 2019

The Portuguese ERASMUS+ National Agency awarded the ERASMUS+ 2019 Good Practices Prize for Adult Education in Strategic Partnerships to Oficinas do Convento as coordinator of the LearnBIØN project. The development of the ...

August 27, 2019

LearnBIØN GUIDES are OUT!

Our DOWNLOAD section is OUT now! We are celebrating our last gathering in Portugal and the last stop of our Traveling Exhibition in Stockholm. To mark this day we release the guides produced during the three years ...

August 22, 2019

Ø BIØN Exhibition in Stockholm

Next stop Sweden! On the 28th of august the travelling exhibition opens in Stockholm. The doors open at 17 with presentations starting at 18.30 by AES. The project results from the 3 year collaboration will be presented ...