Bamboo Technologies offers “engineered, manufactured, prefabricated and certified bamboo homes in the USA.” Having a gorgeous tropical appearance, scores have now been built in Hawaii. They’re said to last as long or longer than conventional wooden houses, and have even been documented as surviving three typhoons in the Cook Islands in 2005.
One of the great things about using bamboo for construction is the fact that it is such an easily-renewable resource, being one of the fastest-growing plants on the planet.
And the people at Bamboo Technologies are not the only ones outside of the Far East using bamboo.
The “Hooch” is a so-called bamboo “treehouse” design with a single-point foundation structure. The building sits up in the air and is said to be able to survive tsunamis. The initial design is for a small structure with a very small impact on the ground of whatever site it rests upon. It is sort of an upside-down, open, pole-pyramid with the apex anchored into the ground. Guy-wire supports help enable it to have such an unobtrusive footprint combined with strength and stability. It's an interesting concept.
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About Me
- Tom Owens
- I'm interested in nature, technology, and the human interface between the two. I see anthropocentrism (often combined with ethnocentrism and/or excessive religious fervor) as probably the most damaging human mindset, at least environmentally-speaking. A great goal of mine is to inspire a love of nature in people. I believe we will all benefit if everyone can create a bond with other organisms and feel the connectedness of all life on our planet. We all have to realize that humans are not separate from the rest of nature.
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