During a sailing trip in Indonesia on a traditional fishing boat, an Irish designer Linda Garland was amazed by the size of a giant bamboo outrigger. She asked the fishermen to take her to the place where it grew. This was the beginning of a journey that led her to start the Environmental Bamboo …
Bamboo Homes
Amazing green gold architecture: bamboo courtyard tea house by Chinese architects HWCD associates
Situated in the ShiQiao garden in Yangzhou, a city to the northwest of Shanghai, the tea house is organized in asymmetric cubes and floats on a lake. Made of sustainable building materials Bamboo & bricks, the Bamboo Courtyard provides the adequate setting to a tea experience with a very uniq…
Modern & classy bamboo home furniture Ideas – the way to green living and a better tomorrow!
Along with decorative home living products, Bamboo home furniture is a growing craze and is extensively found in hotels, restaurants and modern homes. They are uniquely attractive, strong, resilient, moisture and stain resistant and environmentally friendly. Furniture concepts utilizing bamboo is…
Bamboo Home Décor items – Love it. Live it!
It’s time has come… From a ‘poor man’s timber’, bamboo is fast emerging as a ‘green gold’. Markets around the world are fast adopting bamboo as alternative to wood for home décor items. Most of them are hand crafted and not mass produced so each piece is as unique as you and your home…
Fighting typhoons and storms with bamboo homes in Philippines
Philippines has some of the poorest people in the world whose troubles are compounded by typhoons and floods. A global architectural design contest formed by a partnership of the Quezon City government, Climate Change Commission, MyShelter Foundation, United Architects of the Philippines, and Ph…
Affordable Social Housing: Vietnam’s flood-proof bamboo houses is a great case study
Many in South East Asia fall victim to flooding, often losing not only their worldly possessions but also their homes when the waters rise. Vietnamese firm H&P Architects believes it might have solved this problem, by designing a new type of terrestrial dwelling that floats above the flood. T…