We are proudly announcing Wesley Degreef and Jasper van der Linden of BC architects as our next speakers for #26 School’s out!

If we want to achieve our climate targets, we need to change the building industry and develop other, bio-based materials. We can transform pure earth of construction sites to local building materials such as clay plasters, compressed earth blocks and rammed earth for walls and floors. These products are circular, carbon-neutral, healthy and possess minimal grey energy. This approach also puts new demands on architectural design and construction.

BC Architects (Brussels Cooperation) started as a loose cooperation between young Brussels architects and artists, which resulted in installations, re-search projects and open-source design networks. The company now has three organizational structures: BC Architects, an architectural design office in the normal sense; BC Studies, which researches how social design and architecture can contribute to the contemporary and global Zeitgeist in an independent way; and BC Materials, which uses urban mining to gather earth from building sites and transform it into circular building materials.

Earth discovery Workshop

On Saturday 28 May, we are hosting a one-day workshop led by Wesley Degreef and Jasper van der Linden of BC Architects, putting the theory into practice. With a small group, we will hands-on explore the possibilities are of building with loam and local clay. Tickets for participation in the workshop are available for 50 euro and include working material, tools and an introductory lecture on the potential of constructing with loam and local soil. Get your tickets here