Blog – BIØN

May 08, 2018

#5 Second week of rammed earth workshop

Second and last week of our ”design&build rammed earth workshop” have passed. During the week end we had the opportunity to know better the environment of the village with two excursions: first we were invited to a ...

April 27, 2018

#6 Design and Build 0KM

Organized by ARCò, from June 4th until June 29th 2018, Design and Build with Økm (Local and Recycled Materials) in a real context, prototyping a 1:1 object for the development of new activities of the local community. The ...

April 25, 2018

#6 In preparation…

Finally here we are.. the workshop #6 Design and Build with 0km (local and recycled materials) of the LearnBi0n network has its own location, Casa Chiaravalle in Milan. The first inspection was carried out and we are ready to ...

April 25, 2018

#5 workshop has started!

The first week has passed at the Design and Build with Rammed Earth course in Valverde de Burguillos (Extremadura, Spain). The whole group of participants (17 people from 9 diferent countries) gathered on sunday 15th and had ...

April 17, 2018

Project Meeting meets #5 Workshop Start

The participants to integrate the #5 course Design and Build with Rammed Earth started to arrive during Saturday. At dinner time the group was already filling an entire room of the only restaurant in the village. Sunday ...

April 15, 2018

Project meeting at Valverde de Burguillos

Here we are, since Friday, at Casa de la Cultura de Valverde de Burguillos for another LearnBIØN meeting with all the partners. Meanwhile, participants for the Course #5 Design and Build with Rammed Earth, are arriving. Come ...

April 02, 2018

#4 End of the Structure

The last week of the course has arrived. We worked really hard to finish the structure. This week was the time of the secondary nerves that are a bit more sensible than the other elements. We remade all the knots that until now ...

March 26, 2018

#4 Snow at the Building Site

During the third week of the Design and build with cane course in Valldaura we finally finished the foundation and so we were ready to hoist all the eight main arches! But on Tuesday we woke up with a huge snowfall that made our ...

March 19, 2018

#4 Building columns and arches

Another week has passed at the Design and build with cane course in Valldaura. It was the time to prepare the foundation, Vitor and Jonathan worked hard to make four holed that we needed to put four huge wooden poles in which all ...