{"id":229737,"date":"2023-07-07T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/?p=229737"},"modified":"2023-07-07T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T06:26:12","slug":"blue-temple-presents-bamboo-low-cost-housing-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/en\/architect\/blue-temple-presents-bamboo-low-cost-housing-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Temple Presents Bamboo low-cost housing Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wonders of Bamboo<\/h3>\r\n

B<\/span>lue Temple<\/a> presented a bamboo low-cost housing in Myanmar. This is a part of Housing NOW project started by Blue Temple in 2019. The proposed architectural project is a housing typology implemented in a series of completed constructions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Sport court
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Overview
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Night view
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Night view
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Blue Temple explores the wonders of bamboo design and construction, actively taking part in the transition from a vernacular construction technique to an engineered one.<\/p>\r\n

Amongst all existing bamboo species accessible on the local market, tiny bamboo represents an untapped, abundant and cost-effective resource. By utilizing this resource to build houses, the cost of a single unit can be reduced to that of a smartphone. During three years of research, Blue Temple refined and mastered the design; the findings have since been published in a series of academic papers on small-diameter bundle bamboo low-cost construction.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Bamboo grid shell structure
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Games
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Bamboo jungle
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Working with the Local<\/h3>\r\n

The construction system comprises interlocking small-diameter bundled bamboo structural frames, prefabricated in the organization's bamboo workshop in Bago, a city located north of Yangon. The frames are later shipped to the implementing site and are assembled in collaboration with the local community. This construction methodology reduces construction of a single housing unit to a week, while serving as an effective response to emergency housing needs in remote areas of the country.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Slum upgrade in Hmawbi
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Slum upgrade in Yangon
\r\nPhoto credit: Rapha\u00ebl Ascoli<\/p><\/div>

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Opening ceremony orphage in refugee camp
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Opening ceremony for a preschool in a refugee camp
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Preschool
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Orphanage for 30 kids
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The assembly of the structural frames at the implementing site, followed by the construction of finishes including walls, floors, and ceilings, is done in collaboration with the local community, with Blue Temple employing and training members of the community during the construction of their own homes. That has allowed the organization to create a network trained workers from vulnerable communities to act as a deployable task force. This long-term collaborative approach creates new job opportunities for the workers, who can subsequently provide for their family.<\/p>\r\n\n\t\t