From 2008 to 2009, he taught design studios at the ETH Zürich in the chair of Marc Angélil, where he collaborated on different research projects, including the Addis_Urban Laboratory. Bisrat has designed various neighbourhoods while working for the Grand Housing Programme in Addis Ababa in addition to practising in his own office, which won the prize for best affordable low-cost housing in Ethiopia in 2011. In the same year, he co-initiated the research project _Spaces.