Western architects are rediscovering this versatile material and can't say enough good things about it!
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Bamboo Living Homes is the brainchild of founder Jeffrey Trudeau and architect David Sands. They built their first prototype in 1996 in Maui, and since then they’ve build over 150 sustainable bamboo homes in the Hawaiian Islands, Caribbean, and the South Pacific. They decided to use bamboo as their main building material for a few reasons. One was that people have been building with bamboo since the dawn of civilization, and they wanted to continue that tradition to maintain balance with the earth. Bamboo is also the fastest growing plant on the planet, so it replenishes itself easily and creates more renewable material.
