The workshop building with Cane, by CanyaViva demonstrated the different steps. Harvesting, cleaning and classifying the cane. Making the arches and assembling, mounting and thatching.

Doing the thatch cover to the cane structure at LearnBI0N Design and Build with Cane workshop

After building columns its time to mount the arches during LearnBI0N Design and Build with Cane workshop

Building columns and arches during LearnBI0N Design and Build with Cane workshop

Clean and class canes during LearnBI0N Design and Build with Cane workshop

Cane harvesting in preparation for the LearnBI0N Design and Build with Cane workshop

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The techniques that will be the main vehicle for this workshop will be defined along with the design to be co-created by all the participants in the beginning of the week.

We will concentrate on some of the techniques shared abroad during the LearnBIØN program, so skills can be more easily shared with ones getting in contact with them for the first time and improved by the ones who have experienced them.

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 were provisional and that now are definitive.

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!

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 the arches will be tied with ropes made from sisal.

The first week of Design and build with CANE course has passed! Eight people from Spain, Italy, France, Argentina and Portugal with the challenge of building a structure for theoretical classes of CanyaViva courses in the Natural Park of Collserola, in Valldaura, have arrived. Because of the place where we are building, the biggest challenge is to build only with natural materials.

Course postponed to March 4th to 31st 2018 due to bureaucratic issues. Design and Build with Cane is a 4 week building workshop. During the workshop we will build a cane building for a training center in natural building.

For the project that we are planning to build in July, with the participants at LearnBIØN Workshop#2 Build and Design with wattle-and-daub and light straw and the local community of Casaprota, we still need some canes.

On Sunday 14th of May, we would like to invite you everybody to a study and work day in the middle of the Sabina hills. The one day seminar includes hands-on activity and a short theoretic introduction on building with canes.

Saturday 18th of February the AK0-team together with a group of volunteers have started to harvest the canes needed for the raw-earth walls they are planning to build in next July. The canes have been sourced on a private estate in the hilly Sabina region, 60km north-east from Rome and only some hundred metres from the future building site in the town of Casaprota that will host the workshop.