Bamboo building

Bamboo as a building material has high compressive strength and low weight. Bamboo as a building material has various uses and advantages in construction.

Furnish Studio, designed by 11.29 Studio, is based on sustainability with an idea of bamboo elements and aesthetic components of the architecture

VTN architects' plans for a restaurant and café lounge in xiamen uses locally-sourced bamboo which has been treated with a traditional vietnamese method.

atelier cnS fabricates its bamboo corridor alongside the changqi stadium basketball court, using local bamboo and traditional weaving techniques.

Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia is becoming known as one of the world’s most sustainable and socially conscious architects, with heavy emphasis on the use of bamboo, which he calls ‘green steel’.

Takhmau Boarding School by Bloom Architecture combines a robust concrete skeleton with an organic bamboo skin, that filters the tropical sun. The building is designed with sustainability as its main criteria. A concrete skeleton was chosen for its sturdiness, and a bamboo enclosure is made as transparent and porous as possible to prioritise natural ventilation while providing intimacy for the students. Photo Credits: Antoine Raab

I was invited by Gilbert Murrer and Pak Suherry to the Orangutan Haven (OUH) in North Sumatra last year to work on a design project with them. That visit opened up many vistas for me giving insight to what this organisation has achieved and is still achieving in terms of bamboo and other sustainable

IBUKU has pioneered a new design vocabulary, making our own rules along the way, and offering new solutions to the world through our journey. Today, we offer yet another design solution, an unprecedented structure which is not only an incredible piece of bamboo architecture, but will serve as a reference in lightweight structures altogether.

Completed in 2011 in Singapore, Singapore. Images by Sim Boon Yang. A curtain of bamboo creates a beautiful natural screen that contrasts perfectly against the raw off-form concrete structure of this Modernist...

During 2020, Ho Chi Minh City–based green architect Vo Trong Nghia saw his environmentally friendly bamboo structures propagate throughout his native Vietnam. Vo, who studied architecture at Japan’s Nagoya Institute of Technology and the University of Tokyo before opening his eponymous firm in 2006, added to his “House for Trees” collection—residential projects that are home to both plants and people—including the award-winning Bat Trang House in Hanoi.