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.
But what will we do about the hoards of Pandas who suddenly want to eat our houses?
ReplyDeleteBTW: I'm going to go ahead and add you to my "Other Super Happy Blogs" list. Feel free to link to my blog aswell.
Oooh!Awesome! Thank you thank you! I surely will list your blog here too :)
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The pandas wouldn't really like to eat a bamboo home made of what they use, since they coat it with a kind of varnish or lacquer. I suspect pandas prefer their bamboo fresh and free from nasty tasting coatings :)
I will make that the topic of my next post :)
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