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#3. Design and Build with Cordwood
Design and Build with Cordwood is a 4 week building workshop. During the workshop we will build a cordwood building to suit the needs of the newly established organic farmers in Östertälje. Cordwood is a building technique that uses the material and resources from the natural Swedish environment, with wood, clay, sand and straw as…
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In Portugal for the 1st BI0N Workshop!
AES has gone to Montemor-o-Novo to learn how to build with compressed earth blocks together with the experts in Oficinas do Convento. The 4 week workshop will focus on earth construction, and started out with a theoretical and practical framework understanding the material. The workshop will result in a 2 room residency for artists staying in Montemor-o-Novo.
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Cordwood: First Test 1:1
We left the city and spent the weekend at the coast in Sörmland, where we could do a 1:1 experiment in Cordwood building. We found all materials locally at the site. First excavating the clay from the ground, the dense former seafloor had made a layer of solid clay under the top soil. We used…
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Cordwood model making
We made some small models of a Lomax corner (load bearing), and wall-filling frames to experiment on possible designs. The small plaster models took our ideas one step further.
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Introduction and collaboration workshop
We would like to invite Newly Arrived Architects and others, to participate in planning, designing and building in Cordwood. A collaborative project with a practical building workshop during this year. Come and listen to the introduction and get creative with us!! We will present our organisation, our previous work, our current project and our future…
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Apply to participate in the first BIØN workshop
Join the BIØN building workshops, the application just opened! The first course is in Portugal, teaching the compressed earth block (CEB) technique. The workshop runs for 4 weeks in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal by Oficinas do Convento. This workshop is part of an ongoing european project, where we share and build knowledge on low-impact building techniques and co-creative practices.…
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Eco-farmers in Telje – Our new partners
We have been searching for a partner for our proposed workshop in the BI0N network, and we can now proudly introduce the collaboration with Eko-odlarna i Telje (Eco-farmers in Telje). Eco-farmers in Telje is a social enterprise that grows organic vegetables and supplies the municipality’s operations with organic vegetables. A great partner to work with as…
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Collaboration in Brussels
We are now in Brussels!! Our second staff training course together with our european partners, expanding our knowledge on participatory methods as well as co-creating a common ground for the BIØN network. Great to work with the university HE2B, to expand our interdisciplinary thinking and learn from neighbouring fields. We have also had the time to see some interesting projects…
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Rebuilding on Moturiki
Thank you all that contributed to support the island of Moturiki after devastating cyclone Winston! Here is the update of how the funds have been used. Sakiasi from Nasesara village on Moturiki island has now, together with all of the villages coordinated the support. The funds were distributed to all 10 villages, depending on needs.…
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BIØN startup meeting in Brussels
AES joined all our partners for the first meeting in Brussels to discuss the outline of the collaboration project that will continuously run until 2018. Each of the seven partners will create a workshops in their own country, using the knowledge of the built environment, materials and techniques that derives from each local setting. The workshops will…
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