Dear Co-financers,
One year ago on the 27th of January we closed the crowdfunding and reached 10.000€ support!!
With this energy we could buy the tools needed for the work and had the resources to pay for transport and materials that weren't available trough donations.
Thank to your support we could stand the financial gaps imposed by the funding of the architectural league that gave to the project 7500€ but only after "spending".
After one year and almost 59 working events, all documented in the youtube channel, we have reach an almost impossible goal: we have built a structure and a space of aprox 90 square meters , 50 of which are interior spaces! And we did it with self-building and open participation practice! more than 200 people participated in it!
We have showed that collaboration in freedom and connection between networks- community and individuals is a powerful learning tool.
We have experienced a great complexity and showed that complexity and flexibility are great tools to reach efficacy and efficiency, we have built a beautiful space with natural and compostable materials with a little help of each person and thanks to the convergence of great networks, community and companies for the Commons.
The project has now a funding from the City of Barcelona and new board of the BaM association. A new phase of the project start!
And a new phase start too by closing the crowdfunding return that we have assumed one year ago!. We are very please to send to people that gave suport to the project with 100€ or more euros the link to the first documentation of results.
We are very pleased to send as a project return to co-financers of this option, the thesis works of Ana Cazador Lopez and Julia Albes Valvidares of UPC Barcelona. Incredibly this works were submitted to University evaluation committee exactly one year after the ending of the Crowdfunding campaign! From 27.1.2014 to 27.1.2015 we have done a great work! Thanks to all!!
In the work of Júlia Albes you will find a follow up of all the process of building, drawing of each solution adopted and a recap of the design process as well as references to building materials used.
In the work of Ana Lopez you will find an overview of strowbale building construction and a special analysis of the Greb technique employed in the BioBui(L)t project with real data monitoring of the wall humidity conditions
A special thanks to Montserrat Bosch that believed in the BioBui(L)t project from the beginning and gave her support all the way through the process and made possible the great work of Ana & Julia.
And a special thanks to the BaM association that made possible this experience and European Leonardo StrawBale Partnership People that gave energy, insight and support to the project.
The documentation of the project will go on now with the analysis of the collaboration process that we have lived in order to find patterns and set tools that can enable the replication of this experience and document the incredible diversity and richness of contributions of people to this project . This analysis will be conducted by Valentina Maini during 2015 and results are expected by this summer. With the collaboration of Montserrat Bosch and UPC-Gitidec we will go on on defining technical spec of the building techniques and materials employed.
For any question or suggestion on this documentation please don’t hesitate to contact at vmaini@mac.com
For questions about the on-going activities & other crowdfunding returns please contact info@bamconf.org or Gemma Paone at 697 919 928
With gratitude to all of you and a special thought for Txema DeMiguel memory and the love that this project received from his family and friends.
Best regards to all,
Valentina Maini & BaM Asociación Bioarquitectura
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