Design and Build with Bamboo, Hands-On
Bamboo U is Bali's hands-on architecture school for bamboo, in person at our campus on The Kul Kul Farm, or online from anywhere in the world. Working alongside IBUKU, we've taught thousands of students to design, build, and champion bamboo as the material of a sustainable future.
Growing the Global Bamboo Movement
We are an educational enterprise that has grown out of the center of the world's bamboo building movement in Bali, Indonesia.
Together with renowned design firm IBUKU, we're just down the road from the bamboo campus of the Green School, Bali, and we have been pioneering bamboo architecture for over 10 years. Now, we're sharing everything we know about bamboo design and sustainable architecture.
We offer both online and in-person workshops that continue to build the bridge between creative innovation, eco-building, and bamboo design. We are here to continue to grow the bamboo movement and give you the knowledge and skills to build your own bamboo structures.
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See Bamboo U in Motion
A look inside the campus, the builds, and the students who come through it each year.
Free Resources and Bamboo Guides
This is where we share how we build some of the most beautiful bamboo buildings in the world. Free guides on bamboo treatment, sustainable design, and bamboo architecture. Student and alumni bamboo projects and behind the scenes insights into our bamboo campus in Bali.
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Bamboo Structural Systems: Post and Beam
A guide to one of the foundational structural systems used across Bamboo U builds.
Building a Disaster Relief Structure Out of Bamboo
How bamboo's strength-to-weight ratio makes it a fast, resilient material for relief housing.
How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes When Building With Bamboo
The treatment, joinery, and design errors that most often trip up first-time bamboo builders.
The Bamboo U Podcast
Hosted by Orin Hardy
Bringing you conversations about architecture, sustainability, design, creative thinking, and bamboo. A series of interviews with bamboo experts and pioneers who are exploring innovative ways to inspire the world to work with bamboo as a sustainable timber for the future.
The Bamboo U Podcast distills the knowledge of these global experts into 50 minute sessions covering everything from growing bamboo to building skyscrapers out of bamboo. Follow along as Orin Hardy and guests show you that bamboo is the number 1 sustainable building material, and get the inspiration to participate in this new and radical way of designing and building.
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- 02. Building the Future with Bamboo
- 05. Reimagining Homes with Bamboo
- 09. Bamboo Farms in Europe
In 11 Days, You'll Design and Build a Real Bamboo Structure
Hands-on bamboo design and construction, taught alongside IBUKU, on the Bamboo U campus at The Kul Kul Farm, Bali.
Join the August Course 11 Day Build & Design Course · August 28, 2026