Bamboo House Research Articles

Investigation of Traditional Bamboo House Construction Practice and the Need for Bamboo Construction Technology in Awi Zone

Bamboo for housing construction is a paramount material due to its adaptability characteristics, cost advantage, wider accessibility and environmental friendliness. This study focused on bamboo technology for bamboo housing construction in Awi Zone of Ethiopia and it has also identified the current use of bamboo for construction, challenges facing bamboo improvement, factors influencing bamboo application and to propose the mechanism of technology transfer in bamboo house construction technology transfer in the bamboo house construction future. The main tools for the collection of data were questionnaires, interviews and case studies which were used to identify the various challenges and factors influencing bamboo construction technology. The data were analyzed using a Statistical Package for Social Sciences software within its mean value. The findings of this study indicate that lack of research funds for bamboo building materials with a mean of 4.22; inadequate technologies and weak technology transfer in bamboo construction with a mean of 4.13 and lack of finance to facilitate bamboo construction technology with a mean of 4.11 are the major problems of bamboo construction technology development.

Bamboo Housing - A Sustainable Housing with Low Energy and Cost Effective Solution in India

Bamboo Housing - A Sustainable Housing with Low Energy and Cost Effective Solution in India

Bamboo as a Sustainable Building Material for Innovative, Low-Cost Housing Construction

Bamboo is commonly used as a construction material in low-cost housing projects located in tropical and subtropical countries. This practice is especially prevalent in rural areas where bamboo grows naturally and families have experience working with it. Bamboo can be a sustainable building material for homes, even in cases where houses need to be resistant to earthquakes or storms. The traditional bahareque technology was enhanced in Costa Rica and Colombia to make it earthquake resistant. After the year 2000, this technology was transferred to several other countries in Latin America and Asia, gaining recognition as an innovative building technique. Many successful examples of bamboo housing constructions can be found in various countries, where modern architectural solutions are combined with innovative bamboo methods. Local communities can play a crucial role in bamboo processing, allowing residents to actively participate in the construction of their homes under technical supervision. This emphasizes the social sustainability aspect associated with bamboo. Ensuring the durability of bamboo housing constructions is paramount for the longevity of the houses, highlighting the need for technical assistance for self-builders and resident groups. With proper organization, bamboo housing has the potential to become part of the social production of housing.

Bamboo houses mitigate the effects of climate change in Pakistan

Bamboo houses mitigate the effects of climate change in Pakistan

Bamboo Construction Inspired by Vernacular Techniques for Reducing Carbon Footprint: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Whilst upcoming innovations on digital technology and renewable energy can have a significant impact on the reduction of operational carbon emissions in the construction industry, readily available fast-growing building materials like bamboo are already proving reductions in the embodied carbon of dwellings above 60% when compared to traditional brickwork in Colombia. This paper presents a like-by-like comparison of the environmental impact of a conventional clay brick house (CBH) and a bamboo house for social housing in Colombia, which was built using adapted vernacular technologies. The bamboo house uses bamboo species Guadua angustifolia Kunth as the main structural support for the light cement bamboo frame (LCBF) system, a.k.a. ‘cemented bahareque’, whilst the CBH combines clay bricks and steel for the load-bearing walls. Traditionally built Guadua angustifolia Kunth bahareque (GaKB) houses are a key part of the vernacular architecture in the ‘coffee cultural landscape of Colombia’ (CCLC) recognised by UNESCO. A life cycle assessment (LCA) was performed to calculate the carbon footprint of the houses following four phases: (1) definition of objective and scope; (2) inventory analysis; (3) impact assessment; and (4) interpretation of results. The results show that the carbon footprint of the GaKB house accounts for about 40% of the CBH, i.e., the GaKB generates a carbon footprint of 107.17 CO2-eq/m2 whilst the CBH results in a carbon footprint of 298.44 kg CO2-eq/m2. Furthermore, from a carbon balance calculation, the carbon footprint of the GaKB house is further reduced to about 36% of the CSB house. LCA results for the built GaKB house demonstrate that vernacular housing projects that preserve cultural heritage can also be resilient and climate-neutral. This paper sets a precedent for the establishment of targeted government policies and industry practices that preserve the cultural heritage and vernacular technologies in the CCLC region and in other emergent economies worldwide whilst promoting future-proof and net-zero carbon construction.

Structural Grading and Characteristic Value of the Moso Bamboo Culm Based on Its Minimum External Diameter

Bamboo culm has been regarded as a traditional element in construction; meanwhile, it has great potential for the construction of rural houses to achieve green and low-carbon development. However, traditional bamboo houses are usually constructed according to previous experience, and it is hard to design bamboo houses in a standard way. Structural grading of the bamboo culm is an essential work to achieve standardization design. Grading the Moso bamboo culm (P. edulis) based on its minimum external diameter is proposed in this paper. The geometric, physical and mechanical properties of 883 Moso bamboo culms with three different treatment processes were measured and analyzed, namely untreated, with chemical preservatives and heat treatment. It was found that the external diameter of the Moso bamboo culm could be determined by the perimeter in practice. The treatment process has a great influence on the geometric, physical and mechanical properties. Bamboo culms with three different treatment processes could be divided into five, five and four grades, respectively. Meanwhile, based on measurement data, the characteristic values of each grade are presented, including the wall thickness, external and internal taper, linear mass, nominal density and compressive strength. The minimum chemical treatment factor is 0.785, 0.662 and 0.649, while the minimum heat treatment factor is 0.722, 0.644 and 0.877 for wall thickness, linear mass and nominal density, respectively. The treatment factor for compressive strength is 1.12 and 1.52 of chemical treatment and heat treatment, respectively. This study may aid establishing technical specifications and a standard design method for Moso bamboo structural building.

The end of bamboo houses in northern Laos

AbstractWhile we know much about the beginnings of houses, we rarely know about their endings. Yet, to understand the temporality of houses and the entanglement of the biographies of houses and their residents, the analysis of their endings is particularly relevant. The case of Khmu houses is especially suggestive here, for it shows that the end of a house is not an exceptional phenomenon, nor a symptom of crisis, but an inevitable and intended part of its life cycle. Unintended ends, on the other hand, may continue to be animated. While bamboo houses can be assumed to have reached their end due to the widespread use of timber and, increasingly, of concrete. However, bamboo as a building material still appears convenient for fulfilling certain ends, which means that it may resurface even in novel ways.

Experience space practice based on ecological building materials: paper bamboo house architectural design in Panyu, China

Buildings carry people's emotional thoughts. Paper Bamboo House establishes an emotional connection between space and people through characteristic ecological materials, pays attention to people's true perception of buildings, and emphasizes the rhythm of architectural form and rhythm. The architectural design needs to explore the possibility of space existence from the regional culture, rebuild the relationship between the building and the surrounding environment, strive to create a harmonious building that coexists with nature, and practice the regional practice of low-carbon architecture. Advocate to use the comprehensive thinking of reason and art to explore the meaning of space and form.

PENGEMBANGAN MODUL PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA INGGRIS BERWAWASAN EKOWISATA DAN KEARIFAN LOKAL PADA KOMUNITAS RUMAH BAMBU DESA TANAH RATA MALUKU TENGAH

This study aims to develop an English language learning module with ecotourism and local wisdom insights in the Bamboo House Community of Tanah Rata Village, Pulau Banda District, Central Maluku Regency. The development research carried out was intended to find out the needs of students for learning modules that have an ecotourism and local wisdom perspective, obtain data and conclusions about the modules that have been used, compile and develop modules that emphasize the concept of ecotourism and local wisdom in accordance with the characteristics of Banda Island as well as one of the tourism icon in Maluku province, get the validity of the test results from media and material experts, get the results of field tests on the modules that have been developed, and get the feasibility results of the modules. The method used in this research is Research and Development (R&D). The development procedure used is the ADDIE development model, namely analysis (needs analysis), design (designing learning modules), development (developing learning modules), implementation (implementing learning modules in small groups and large groups), and evaluation (evaluating the use of existing modules). developed). The modules that have been developed include ecotourism-oriented English materials and local wisdom that support the Banda Island tourism sector. Topics raised included Ecotourism and Local Wisdom, Beach Watersport, Enjoy Your Stay, Marine Tourism, Water Transportation, Lawataka Festival, Historical Tourism, Natural Resources. The results of the validation carried out by media experts and material experts fall into the "very good" category so that the module developed is suitable for use in the Bamboo House Community of Tanah Rata Village, Pulau Banda sub-district, Central Maluku district.

Design Exploration of Bamboo Micro House using Hyperbolic Paraboloid Structure

Limited land is a major problem in big cities, which has a direct impact on increasing land prices and low level of affordability. Micro house concept can be a solution to this problem. Planning a bamboo micro house with local materials can be an effort to contribute to a sustainability agenda. Bamboo is a local material that is environmentally friendly, adaptive, and widely available in Indonesia. Preserved bamboo construction with certain treatments is also affordable and durable for its high sustainability impact. This paper aims to study the exploration of bamboo materials in designing micro houses that suit the needs of urban communities. The house concept is open plan, so the spaces can be used multi-functionally by taking into account the requirements of livable micro houses. The method used is the Cyclical Design Process which consists of three stages, which are analysis stage, synthesis stage, and evaluation stage which is carried out repeatedly to produce a design that is in accordance with the design criteria that have been determined. Paraboloid hyperbolic structure system is used to produce an attractive and efficient form. The development of this micro-bamboo house is expected to be useful in solving the backlog and housing affordability problems in Indonesia.

Sustainability in West Java traditional house: A case study from Julang Ngapak House

Bamboo is one of the strongest woody plant species available and is usually found in rural areas. In general, bamboo is widely used in traditional house structures and construction systems because the material is easily available. This study found that the use of local wisdom materials in traditional Julang Ngapak house make the building more durable, environmentally friendly, inexpensive, has aesthetic value, the shape of the roof creates an attic space for thermal comfort, proper cross-ventilation, and a renewable construction system. In addition, the shape of the bamboo house is determined by climate, location, and purpose, building technology, and historical experience. Bamboo is the alternative future construction material for sustainable development.

Structural design of an Italian bamboo house in an Italian regulatory context: Revisiting a small building built in Costa Rica with tropical bamboo

A residential building designed by the architect Anna Zanetti and already built in Costa Rica using Guadua angustifolia and Dendrocalamus asper is redesigned, choosing the municipality of Bologna, in the north part of Italy, as the construction site and Moso (Phyllostachys edulis) cultivated in Italy, as structural material. The redesign is performed in the context of Italian standards. The paper demonstrates how it is possible to design a building using European bamboo, geometrically smaller in respect to the tropical one, in compliance with the Italian national standards NTC2018 with the aid of Bamboo International standards (ISO 22156). All the members are multi-culms and the connections are chosen without perforations.

An innovative digital workflow to design, build and manage bamboo structures

At current rates, the building industry is the major contributor to gas emissions and energy consumption in the world, placing unprecedented pressure to find alternative and sustainable construction materials, particularly in regions where urbanization and population growth are expected to rise. Coincidentally, bamboo culms are a sustainable and abundant resource with the potential to be used as a structural element in those regions, however, their organic nature and inherent incompatibility with modern design and construction procedures have hampered their formal utilization. This article presents the details of an innovative workflow based on the philosophy that the quality and reliability of bamboo structures can be computationally managed through the digitization of individual structural bamboo elements. The workflow relies on reverse-engineering processes that integrate and make bamboo culms compatible with modern data-management platforms such as Building Information Modelling. A case study based on a reconstruction project of bamboo houses in Lombok, Indonesia is presented to illustrate the proposed workflow. This work showed that digitization and management are not just to represent shapes and information regarding bamboo culms through computer software, but can also control the quality, sustainability, and structural behavior of a bamboo structure during its entire service life.

Listening through houses: Changing communities of sounds in Northern Laos

In the uplands of northern Laos, in which bamboo and timber houses prevailed, concrete houses are now on the rise. It will be argued that houses can be used as prisms to illuminate processes of social change. Drawing on experiences of staying in both a timber house and a new concrete one over the course of long-term ethnographic fieldwork among the Khmu, a key experiential difference will be analysed: their different soundscapes. While one can easily listen through the cracks and spaces between timber boards, concrete walls produce a perceivable barrier between inside and outside. It will be argued that the changing materiality of the house and its (sonic) repercussions contribute to shaping a different relationship between the house, its residents, and the village. Finally, it will be argued that when inquiring into the shifting sensory experience of living in concrete houses in a social context in which houses are of central importance yet are not the places where locals spend much of their time, emphasis should not solely be given to the house but to other meaningful locales of sociality.

IDENTIFIKASI POTENSI WISATA DESA TANGKUP KARANGASEM MENUJU DESA WISATA RINTISAN

Tangkup Village has an area of 2,667 Km2, most of which is in the form of rice fields. The natural tourism potential of Tangkup Village is a rice field area located in Tangkup Anyar, a watershed located in Tangkup Desa area, and green hills that surround the village. Cultural potential in the form of cagcag woven cloth which is a typical product of Tangkup, traditional snacks called jaje tulud, tipat pesor and sangait. In other places, sangait is made from sweet potatoes, Sangait in Tangkup village is made from cassava which is widely grown by local people. However, in the process of developing this snack product, it encountered obstacles related to the dough that did not support the process of design tulud cakes with coconut shells. Even though the community wants to develop jaja tulud, the tools used should not be replaced. Because of these difficulties, not many residents survive to make jaja tulud which is usually used for ceremonial needs. Regarding its function as a typical snack, students want to develop this snack so that it can be of economic value and accepted by tourists through a more elegant presentation. Students are actively involved in the preparation for the formation of Pokdarwis so that the direction of village development is towards a managed and directed tourism village. So far, the potential management of Tangkup Village is still being handled independently by utilizing the land owned, especially those located near watersheds, in the form of cafes, rafting, Asta Gangga Park attractions and bamboo houses that are being built as tourist facilities on the hill. The village hopes that students will help generate the tourism potential of Tangkup Village, so that it is widely known and visitors enjoy the beauty of this beautiful fertile village through the preparation of local human resources to welcome Tangkup village which will soon become a tourist village.

Black Internationalism as “I and I” Praxis

Black Internationalism as “I and I” Praxis

Seeds That Float

A well-known anecdote describes how a young William Le Baron Jenney, traveling the Pacific in 1850, was taken by the construction of bamboo and palm houses in the Philippines. Jenney, and those that historicized him, attributed his experimentation with steel-frame tall buildings in Chicago later in the nineteenth century to these early impressions of bamboo framework with palm-woven panels. This paper proposes a contextualization of Jenney’s inspiration alongside the work of two American botanists active in Guam and the Philippines between 1890 and 1920 in order to understand the creation of analytical categories and the texture of academic imperialism. Elmer Drew Merrill and William Safford recorded their encounters with plant-based architecture in the tropics during a period of violent imperial transition. These vignettes of viewership reveal how unstable claims about a changing environment were validated through the interpretation of plants animated through human interaction as building materials rather than inert timber.

Influence of Roofing Material on Indoor Thermal Comfort of Bamboo House

In built environment, there is renewed interest towards the local building material, which is cost-effective, environmental-friendly, and best suited to the local climate. In this framework, the study will be emphasized the impact of local roofing materials on indoor thermal comfort of Bamboo house in a warm and humid region of Myanmar. In practice, Bamboo houses with different roofing materials were monitored with seven sensor points at outdoor and indoor to observe its thermal performance. By regarding microclimate conditions, the performance of different roofing materials on the indoor environment will be analyzed by statistical analysis based on the thermal comfort index. The result shows indigenous roofing material has less thermal conductivity impact on indoor thermal comfort than the other roofing materials. Moreover, the double roof, which is made of a combined layer of Dani and GI sheet, keeps the room with moderate thermal comfort for almost the whole day. The result of this study will propose suitable roofing material of Bamboo House and the required period to operate an air-conditioner with an extensive explanation to lead the reduction of Energy Consumption in further.

The Uniqueness of Architecture and Bamboo House Environment in Pengotan Traditional Village, Bali, Indonesia

Pengotan Village is a traditional village known as a tourism village in which it has unique architectures of bamboo house settlements and its natural beauty. These resources have led to an increase in tourist visits. However, the increase has led to the growth of tourist facilities such as accommodations and restaurants. The construction of tourist facilities has transformed agricultural and plantation lands' functions to support tourism and new settlements. This transformation has caused changes in traditional architecture even though these cultural productions are interesting for tourists. This phenomenon is an architectural challenge for the people to maintain the cultural productions, but at the same time, they can accommodate tourist activities in the village. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the traditional settlement and architecture of the bamboo, including socio-cultural conditions, village morphology, building typology, and problems faced. Using fieldwork investigations and interviews, this paper's output identifies and documents data conditions, problems, analysis, concepts, and strategies for future village architectural conservation. This activity's technical implementation includes preparation, survey, a compilation of data and analysis, formulation of concepts and structuring strategies, design, and socialization.

The design concept of bamboo in micro housing as a sustainable self-building material

Bamboo is building material that is well known in Southeast Asia, which is renewable, environment-friendly, widely available and fast-growing, as other materials resource such as timber is diminishing and restricted due to deforestation. While timber demand is rapidly increasing, unfortunately, the supply is depleting. Therefore, bamboo can be suitably replacing timber and other materials in construction and other works—moreover, bamboo grown abundantly in Indonesia and easily found in each district as local material. Using local materials is essential in this fast-growing world. Local materials can reduce carbon footprint and support sustainable development efforts. Also, bamboo construction also technically eco-friendly and cost-effective with durable and have high sustainability impact. Besides, the land available for residential housing is currently running low. This problem requires innovation in terms of space effectiveness in design. As a two- or three-story compact bamboo house concerning sustainable local material. This research analyses the user configuration to proceed bamboo as local material to construct a compact house model that is green and durable. These works initiate nature sustainability buildings to fit into natural surroundings.