2007 BambooInternational Building Design Competition
This would fall under Green Living for sure !!!******
I find this Absolutly Fastenating. I think the Feeling of Living in a Bamboo Home would be…Nice !!!******
Caretaker’s House is one of the Top 12 Designs !
(10″) Caretaker’s House. Category 01: Family House
SPG Architects: USA
This small home was built as a caretaker’s house in the jungles of Costa Rica. The lower floor, built of concrete and stucco, grounds the house and protects from the moisture of the rainforest floor, but it is the open and airy bamboo upper floor that gives the house its natural Central American feeling.
Cocoon Housing. Joerg Hanson: China is one of the Top 12 !
Cocoon Housing. Joerg Hanson: China. These Cocoon Houses are designed as lodges for an environmental center on Bali. They are vibrantly organic in form and make extensive use of bamboo throughout their structure. Like growing forest forms, the curviness of the cocoons makes them almost blend into the forest they are built in.
I have found some more Bamboo Homes I will share in another post…soon !
Here is a Cool Book on Building with Bamboo that I found, so I could find out more about building with bamboo.
Book Description
Bamboo, which has been used as building material for centuries and is widely available (35 million acres worldwide are covered in bamboo), is being rediscovered today. Its cost-effectiveness and ability to endure adverse environmental forces make it one of the preeminent construction materials on the planet. Bamboo’s unique aesthetic appearance has been exploited in design and furniture building. The highly visual and engaging Grow Your Own House will open your eyes to the beauty and lightness of bamboo structures and designs. Bamboo–a widely available and renewable resource almost as strong as steel, yet very light–lends itself to architectural experiments. Buckminster Fuller, Frei Otto, Renzo Piano, Shoei Yoh, and Arata Isozaki are a few of the millions of people worldwide using bamboo to create space and structure around them. Author and architect Simón Vélez pioneered bamboo construction in his home country of Colombia. His most recent and spectacular project, which is prominently featured in Grow Your Own House, is the Expo 2000 pavilion for the ZERI Foundation. At over 120 feet in diameter and over 50 feet high, it is one of the largest bamboo structures in the world. Grow Your Own House includes all the latest trends of this cutting-edge revival. The integration of the seeming dichotomies of high-tech and sustainability, global thinking and regional traditions definitely makes the future look brighter. This lavishly and colorfully illustrated volume is published in dual languages (German and English). Contributors to this volume include Jean Dethier, Walter Liese, Eda Schaur, Frei Otto, and Mateo Kries.
All the Best My Friend’z !!!******
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