Bamboo As A Low Cost, Eco Friendly Manner - 2571 Words

BAMBOO IN ARCHITECTURE ABSTRACT Bamboo has found use in extensive fields ranging from medicine to cooking to furniture making and most importantly in construction. The advantage of using bamboo is the easy availability of the material especially in India. The use of bamboo as a structural construction material is also gaining popularity primarily because it is a rapidly growing material which makes it sustainable. It has many positive engineering attributes such as its high strength and durability. The goal of assessing bamboo’s potential to meet construction techniques as a low-cost, eco-friendly manner. Keywords: bamboo, easy availability, sustainable, low cost construction, eco friendly  ¬Ã‚ ¬ INTRODUCTION In the past, many people built†¦show more content†¦In light of this, it is important for us to re-think our strategies for housing the poor, and to re-visit some of that traditional building wisdom, in which people and communities were the key agents in building and upgrading their housing, and local materials and local building techniques were their inexpensive and environmentally-sustainable tools to do that. Bamboo is the most marvelous plant in nature. The word â€Å"bamboo† was coined by Carl von Linnà © in 1753. Bamboo is a grass plant like rice, corn and sugarcane. Different to these, the lignin of its tissues becomes after some years a structure as hard as wood, but more flexible and light. Bamboo is not a new field for researchers. In China, in Jin Dynasty (265-420 A.C) there has been monograph which observed and recorded the botanic properties of diverse bamboo species. Bamboo is an important resource in the Indian socio-economic, cultural, ecological, climatic functional context with 1500 recorded uses. It is a fast growing, wide spread, renewable, versatile, low cost, environment-enhancing resource with potential to improve livelihood security in the years to come, in both rural and urban areas. Apart from its-traditional uses bamboo has various new applications as an alternative