This stunning home is made completely out of bamboo

Abstract

What makes this building special is the openable envelope made of recycled 300 by 600 millimeters recycled plastic panels that protect an inner bamboo structure. The outer envelope creates a service corridor around the building, which has natural ventilation and double wall insulation on the core living space inside. This means that windows open into the corridor and everything inside can remain unfinished and raw. They experimented with a three-story structure of bamboo using diagonal floor plate structures. Local stone was used for the foundation, and from there it's bamboo all the way up. The idea was to create a home with bamboo protected by waterproof membrane, while using raw unfinished materials inside. The designers say the idea was "Creating finishes that are raw, basic, humble and honest in the expression and forming such economic sensitivity." It sounds so simple, but you can see from the photos that bamboo has been used to build a home and studio into an art piece in itself.