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Bamboom: Elora Hardy's TED Talk on Bamboo's Exploding Popularity

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Perhaps the most surprising thing about bamboo - besides being an entirely natural, sustainable material with the tensile strength of steel that can grow up to 900 millimeters (3 feet) in just 24 hours - is that it's not more widely recognized as a fantastic construction material. Like many traditional building materials, bamboo no longer has the architectural currency that it once did across Asia and the pacific, but the efforts of Elora Hardy may help put it back into the vernacular. Heading up Ibuku, a design firm that uses bamboo almost exclusively, Hardy's recent TED Talk is an excellent run through of bamboo's graces and virtues in construction, showing off sinuous private homes and handbuilt school buildings.

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Surabaya, Indonesia
  • Architects: noMADen studio
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  280 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2009

Vertical Barcode House / Gayuh Dudi Utomo

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Ira Residence / Andy Rahman

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Houses
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Surabaya, Indonesia
  • Architects: Andy Rahman
    : Andy Rahman Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  180 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2008

Erha Clinic Surabaya / HMP Architects

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