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Spectacular Architecture Made of Bamboo for Sustainable Future

Spectacular Architecture Made of Bamboo for Sustainable Future

How do you build a future out of grass? On the Indonesian island of Bali, one organization has set out to do just that. Ibuku, an architecture and furniture design firm based outside of Denpasar, Bali is using bamboo to construct Green Village. Ibuku combines green building and renewable materials.

Bamboo is also a sustainable and renewable alternative to timber, which makes it a viable way to give denuded forests a break. And it is spectacularly fast-growing. Hardy claims that she has witnessed bamboo, which is actually a kind of wild grass — grow 1 meter (3.2 feet) in one week. Some species grown up to 2 inches an hour, or up to 1.5 meters each day. 

While bamboo has been used worldwide in construction and craftsmanship for millennia, its structures don’t typically last long enough to be seen as a material worth permanence. 

Sharma Springs. Image: Rio Helmi/Ibuku
Sharma Springs. Image: Rio Helmi/Ibuku

 

Ibuku’s answer to this problem is a boron solution that suppresses glucose levels and renders it inedible for insects.

According to Ibuku’s team, “If the bamboo is chosen well, treated properly, designed carefully and maintained, a bamboo house can last a lifetime. The bamboo houses are designed and built to avoid prolonged sun and rain exposure, and are varnished with a weather-resistant coating.”

  

Green School in Bali, Indonesia. Image: Ibuku
Green School in Bali, Indonesia. Image: Ibuku

Hardy’s father, John, a Canadian expat, was among the pioneers who pushed the practice to new heights in Indonesia. With his wife, he founded the all-bamboo campus of Green School in the jungles of Bali in 2006, and creating a lab for experimentation with bamboo building and engineering.

Hardy confessed that she was blown away by his father’s work and felt that it was the way she can be involved in a sustainable industry.

Born and raised in Indonesia, now Hardy incorporates local Indonesian architects, engineers, designers, artisans and craftsmen in creating more than 50 handmade bespoke buildings.

Sketch to structure. Image: Ibuku
Sketch to structure. Image: Ibuku

 

“The architects in my team are the extraordinary outliers. They sought us out to be involved in something creative and unique. Some of them have been working with bamboo since their childhood creating temporary structures for Balinese cultural ceremonies, others are fresh out of architecture school and we just have to bend their minds out of a mindset wrought by an architectural education,” Hardy tells Quartz.

Kitchen, Sunrise House. Image: Rio Helmi/Ibuku
Kitchen, Sunrise House. Image: Rio Helmi/Ibuku

 

Their team already has luxury villas, houses, schools and infrastructure buildings in their portfolio, and is renowned for their dedication to using traditional Indonesian building techniques.


Source : Quartz | National Geographic | Inhabitat

Indah Gilang Pusparani

Indah is a researcher at Badan Perencanaan Pembangunan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Daerah Kota Cirebon (Regional Development Planning and Research Agency of Cirebon Municipality). She covers More international relations, tourism, and startups in Southeast Asia region and beyond. Indah graduated from MSc Development Administration and Planning from University College London, United Kingdom in 2015. She finished bachelor degree from International Relations from University of Indonesia in 2014, with two exchange programs in Political Science at National University of Singapore and New Media in Journalism at Ball State University, USA. She was awarded Diplomacy Award at Harvard World Model United Nations and named as Indonesian Gifted Researcher by Australian National University. She is Researcher at Regional Planning Board in Cirebon, West Java. She previously worked as Editor in Bening Communication, the Commonwealth Parliament Association UK, and diplomacy consulting firm Best Delegate LLC in USA. Less
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