Bamboo Simplicity – Forest for a Moon Dazzler
Guanacaste, Costa Rica – Ben Gracia Saxe Built: 2010 Bamboo is an extraordinarily versatile material. It’s strong, flexible, lightweight, totally renewable and, potentially very long lasting even when in ground. The home shown here uses bamboo in both conventional and very unconventional ways. It’s a home ideally suited to it’s hot, humid locale – open and […]
Look, Bamboo Construction: No Triangles!
By Guest Blogger Munir Vahanvati The use of triangles is one of the fundamental principles for bamboo construction which is commonly used in most bamboo structures for stability and rigidity. Keeping with our principle of exploring new designs and connections in every project we decided to challenge the notion of using triangulation for structural stability. […]
Leaf House – Indigenous ingenuity
Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro – Mareines + Patalano Bamboo, local timbers, copper, massive beams spanning 20 metres and one of the world’s greatest harbours, help to make this a truly unique home. The design drew inspiration from indigenous Brazilian architecture to use natural ventilation to manage the hot and humid climate. Notes from […]
One With the Birds
Badaling China – Penda Design House Concept only Badaling is a forested mountain area about 100 kilometres from Beijing. It is one of the main sites for viewing and walking The Great Wall. Entries were invited in a competition to design an eco-hotel in one of China’s most successful, but ecologically sensitive, destinations – The […]
Panyaden School – Bamboo, Adobe and Rammed Earth
Chiang Mai, Thailand – 24H Architecture Builder: Chiangmai Life Construction Project Year: 2010Project Area: 5,000 m2 (54,000 sq. ft.)Photographs: Ally TaylorLocation: Chiang Mai, ThailandAwards: Grand Award – Design for Asia; Gold Award – Design for Asia (Environmental design) If you’ve been with us […]
Bamboo Passive in France
Val d’Oise, France – Karawitz Architecture Built area: 177 m2 (1,905 sq. ft.) Year built: 2009 Heating needs: 11kWh/m²a Photography: Hervé Abbadie and Karawitz Orientation can make or break any home! In the southern hemisphere, sound design principles dictate that a home should open to the north and be protected from the south. In the […]
Great Wall Bamboo House
Commune by the Great Wall Near Biejing China – Kengo Kuma and Associates Year built: 2002 Built area: 529 m2 (5,713 sq. ft.) The Bamboo Wall House was completed in 2002 as part of a multi-dwelling project near Beijing. Requirements were to use local materials and conform to the topography. The […]
5 Amazing Benefits of Blooming Bamboo – HandP Architects
Co Nhue, Tu Liem, Ha Noi Vietnam –Built Area: – 44m2Year Built: – 2013Winner: American Architecture Prize 2017 The goal of this Blooming Bamboo home is to solve the housing problem of millions of people. Bamboo remains a massively under-rated building resource in the first world. Sure we use it in laminates but that is ultimately […]
Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse
ShiQiao, Yangzhou China – World Consulting & Design (HWCD) Building Area: 400m2Completed: May 2012 Yangzhou is a city located to the north-west of Shanghai. It is home to Huaiyang-style cuisine which ranks as the top of all eight famous Chinese cuisine styles. Focussed on pastries and snacks as the key components, it’s customary for Yangzhou […]
Bamboo in Construction
Bamboo – the miracle resource. No other plant on earth has the multitude of uses that bamboo does. It can be used for shelter, to pipe water, for utensils to cook in and with, for forks, knives and chopsticks, for the plates the food is served on and even the napkin on your lap as […]
Gather – smaller but larger
Osaka-City Japan – Katsuhiro Miyamoto and Associates Site area: 120.34 m2 (1,300 sq. ft.) Building envelope: 72.08 m2 (778 sq. ft.) Total built area: 135 m2 (1,458 sq. ft.) Year built: 2009 This Osaka home presented some unique challenges. Firstly, it contravened the allowable site ratio for the […]
A Child’s Paradise
Koh Kood Thailand – 24H Architecture It’s not a home – but it could be. It’s an activity centre for children whose parents have invested in a vacation at the fabulous (and very expensive) Soneva Kiri Resort. We featured the resort on our Facebook page about a month ago but held this treat back as […]
Bamboo Brilliance – Wind and Water Cafe
Bamboo Brilliance
The Interesting 20 Acres Green School of Bali
Bali, Indonesia – John and Cynthia Hardy Builders: PT Bambu The Green School of Bali, Indonesia. Rainforests continue to disappear at an alarming rate. Environmentalists and designers, John and Cynthia Hardy have experienced the loss and degradation firsthand in their adopted home, Bali. The Hardys wanted to motivate communities to live sustainably, thereby protecting those forests. Building sustainably […]
The Fascinating Green Village
Bali, Indonesia – PT Bambu Built area: 18,700 m2 (201,285 sq. ft)Year built: 2010Photography: Courtesy of Bambu Indah Collection The infinite joy of bamboo The Green Village of Udon, Bali. Some time back we showed you the magnificent Green School of Bali. Using totally sustainable materials and practices, Elora Hardy and her team built, what must […]