Building with bulrushes in Berkeley
Detail Students' Award Goes to the USA
With their Biotic Air Unit 2071 research project, the students of UC Berkeley have demonstrated that a Californian variety of bulrush is a suitable building material. Their installation has won them this year’s Detail Students’ Award. This video depicts all the steps from harvesting the rushes to the complete installation.
Designers of the project
Students: Anastasis Dimokas, Anson Jacob, Ellina Poltavtseva, Geoffrey Nyakiongora, Jingyi He Joanne Spyridi Olivier Gennart, Shida Wang, Sourabh Maheshwary, Wentao Zeng, Zeming Zhang
Advisor: Maria Paz Gutierrez
You can find more photos and explanations of the Biotic Air project here.
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