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 ...
Read MoreAugust 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 ...
Read MoreAugust 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 ...
Read MoreAugust 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 ...
Read MoreJune 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 ...
Read MoreFebruary 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 ...
Read MoreJanuary 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 ...
Read MoreAugust 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 ...
Read MoreAugust 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 ...
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