CONCEPT A house designed as a showcase to promote bamboo as sustainable building material, must be unusual and eye-catching. Bamboo has been used for making everything from kitchenware to buildings for thousands of years in most Asian countries. Among the many beautiful methods of treating bamboo, highly sophisticated weaving techniques have been developed. Woven house is an attempt to take this tradition and use it in modern architecture and in a much larger scale than anyone have ever seen before. Birds are using weaving for making their nest from materials in their habitats. Using the unique flexibility and strength of bamboo for weaving a vacation house, that appears futuristic and dynamic and gives a unique architectural experience, where walls, floors and ceiling is one continuously surface, that also can be shaped into sitting areas and shelves. The woven bamboo surface can be a closed surface or open to let in light. LOCATION Can be anywhere in south -- and Southeast Asia. Vietnam, China, India, Indonesia. Most importantly in an area where there is a tradition of weaving bamboo, and on a site where Bamboo is growing, so less transport is needed, meaning less impact on nature. CONSTRUCTION Heat shaped construction bamboo is used for making the framework of the building. Roof is covered with bamboo shingles. Internal walls, floor and ceiling is woven bamboo. And in between there is space for insulation. design by SYMBIOSIS architectural design/ Architect M.A.A. Søren Korsgaard blankavej 25, 3.tv. 2500 Valby Denmark phone (+45) 28 74 71 86 www.sorenkorsgaard.com architect@sorenkorsgaard.com

Comments

1. @snowenorr Bamboo has an incredibly high resistance to fire, up to about 300 - 400 degrees
2. @snowenorr The bamboo is coated with bio-resin.
3. Kitchen in bamboo house spells fire hazard...No more than anywhere else I suppose.
4. @symbiosis79 do you have a link? Theres not enough information out there on how this could be done. Great idea though.
5. Read the text ;) Inside between the two layers of woven structure there is of construction bamboo to support the building. I have been in contact with a guy who have invented a new construction method for bamboo houses, that makes it possible to make curved beams or frames.