Low Cost Housing

I've always been fascinated by the versatility of natural material. These materials, given to us from nature which makes them even more exciting. Scientists seem to call us animals but to know that nature produces what we can later call our homes from using these as primary building material.

There is a wide range these materials...in fact the list is endless, but the one that has caught my attention lately and seems to be used widely by today's architects more than the natives is Bamboo.

Bamboo primarily grows in regions of warmer climates. It is also considered to be one of the fastest-growing plants in the world. Bamboo can grow more than a metre in just 24hrs.Bamboo has a higher compressive strength than wood, brick or concrete and a tensile strength that rivals steel.

Low Cost housing.

Bamboo has been mostly for low cost housing. Due to its natural properties bamboo could be a solution to many shelter crises that we have in the world today. I took a chance to look at some of the existing low cost housing made from bamboo.

This bamboo house was designed and build by a Vietnamese studio H & P Architects. This is a prototype bamboo house designed to withstand floods up to three metres above ground.



H&P Architects used tightly-packed rows of bamboo cane to build the walls, floors and roof of the Blooming Bamboo Home, along with bamboo wattle, fibreboard and coconut leaves.

                             

                         

The Roof of this House has "window openings" in the roof which is a major plus during rainy and sunny  days.