Bamboo construction is where design meets the realities of a living material: load paths, joinery, foundations, roofing and finishing that turn a drawing into a structure standing for decades. Every guide here is drawn from real builds by our team and alumni. Ready to build with your own hands? Our 11-Day Bamboo Build and Design Course takes you from raw pole to finished structure in Bali.
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While bamboo holds incredible potential as a building material, efforts to build durable bamboo structures…
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Costing a bamboo building is very different from costing a conventional structure. Although often a…
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Roofings are perhaps the most fundamental architectural element of bamboo buildings (together with foundations). Well-designed…
The 11-Day Build & Design Course
In collaboration with IBUKU
Immersed in the most beautiful and innovative bamboo environment. Meet the pioneers, the visionaries, the designers and builders who took this under-utilized material and transformed it into the most desired natural building material for bamboo structure design.
The Intro to Bamboo Engineering Online Course
Designed specially for structural engineers, this FREE online course has been created in collaboration with the Base Bahay Foundation, based in the Philippines.Join the course to learn how bamboo's innate properties make it a versatile building material, and how these properties can be maximized and applied in structural design.