Bamboo are usually for building the niche shelter such as stage, frame, entertainment place, fun room, wild campus etc. As one of the biggest bamboo consumption country in the world, Japan, is currently coming up many new applications. In that house, it's built with bamboo and it gets rid of the low class feeling of using the bamboo. The environmental, natural and fresh feeling are the new feeling of bamboo that brings to the user's mind.

Secondly, bamboo are mainly also for the outdoor purpose likely one of the photos demo. In Asia, it helps to reduce the cost of the building or outdoor building service.That idea inspire from a Japanese designer to use bamboo for the frame of a house instead of playing mainly for the frame of building.

In the architect history, there are many revolution of the building materials, brick, soil, cement, metal, wood, grass etc. Bamboo were only for decor alike purpose only. And now, we use bamboo to build the house and many other materials too. such as plastic, clothes, nylon etc. Surely bamboo is only a starting helping to re-shape the building creation.  

Bamboo Building

Once upon a time, I saw a bamboo building, surrounded by many bamboo, appearing in the TV series,” The Journey to the West”. It was a house in Yunnan. I was greatly attracted by its simpleness in style, light green in color and beauty in appearance. I had a dream to live in such building one day in the future.

Though I can not realize my dream now, I have deep interest in bamboo building and I look up information about it as more as possible. And now I am able to say something about bamboo building.

In Colombia, an architect, Simon Velez, has designed one of the world’s largest bamboo structures, a polo clubhouse. He has built many bamboo buildings, raging ranging from private residences to lodges. Why can bamboo be used to build a building? What are the advantages to do so? So, let us come to the quality of bamboo first.

Bamboo offers advantages over many conventional building materials, fast-growing, quick-maturing, hardy, flexible, strong and renewable. And its high-density strength — in some ways stronger than steel, concrete and spruce — is due to its high content of silicates. Its reproduction rate is astounding. It is said that its regeneration rate is so much better than tree forests. How surprise it is, isn’t it? What is more, bamboo fibers can be superior to wood. It can replace mature fiber every three and a half years.

When harvesting soft woods on a 50- to 60-year cycle, what’s being harvested is juvenile fiber. And bamboo offers more dimensional stability. Maybe, these are all the reasons why bamboo can be used to build a building, I think.

Above all, building a building by using bamboo is becoming a good choice to do no harm to the environment according to its great quality. And I will try my best to live in a bamboo building in the future.

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