A bamboo house designed by Vietnam's H&P Architects was awarded aHighly Commended status in the House of the Year category at the WorldArchitecture News (WAN) Awards 2014.
The Blooming Bamboo Home is ahousing solution for millions of Vietnamese people suffering fromnatural disasters such as storms, floods, landslides and drought.
Withbamboo modules of four to five centimetres in diameter and 3.3m or 6.6min length, each house can be simply assembled with bolts, the bamboobound together, hung and put in place. This structure is strong enoughto withstand phenomena such as floodwaters that are up to 1.5m inheight. The bamboo structure has multifunctional uses. It can be used asa house, and an educational, medical and community centre, and can beexpanded, if necessary.
With a fixed bamboo frame, the roof ofthe house can be made according to the local climate and using locallyavailable materials such as small bamboo, bamboo wattle, fibreboard orcoconut leaves.
According to H&P Architects, the users canbuild the house themselves in 25 days. It can be mass produced withmodules, and the total cost of the house is only 2500 USD.
Therefore,the house can provide warmth to people in the most severe conditions,help them control their activities in the future, and also remarkablycontribute to ecological development as well as economic stabilisation.
Earlierthis year, the Bamboo Blooming House won the International ArchitectureAward 2014, an annual prize awarded by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum ofArchitecture and Design in collaboration with the European Centre forArchitecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The winner in theHouse of the Year category at this year's WAN Awards was a house inMadrid designed by Estudio, Spain, while the shortlisted entriesincluded The Garden House in London, the United Kingdom; Villa H36 inStuttgart, Germany; and Narigua House, Monterrey, Mexico, as well asNannup House in Perth, Australia.
The WAN Awards are the world'slargest architectural awards programme with 1,379 entries, 317international judges and 72 participating countries, as well as 55,000Wan App users and 1,400,000 page views of worldarchitecturenews.com.
The other categories at the awards include Performing Spaces, Sustainable Building of the Year, Landscape and Adaptive Reuse.-VNA
The Blooming Bamboo Home is ahousing solution for millions of Vietnamese people suffering fromnatural disasters such as storms, floods, landslides and drought.
Withbamboo modules of four to five centimetres in diameter and 3.3m or 6.6min length, each house can be simply assembled with bolts, the bamboobound together, hung and put in place. This structure is strong enoughto withstand phenomena such as floodwaters that are up to 1.5m inheight. The bamboo structure has multifunctional uses. It can be used asa house, and an educational, medical and community centre, and can beexpanded, if necessary.
With a fixed bamboo frame, the roof ofthe house can be made according to the local climate and using locallyavailable materials such as small bamboo, bamboo wattle, fibreboard orcoconut leaves.
According to H&P Architects, the users canbuild the house themselves in 25 days. It can be mass produced withmodules, and the total cost of the house is only 2500 USD.
Therefore,the house can provide warmth to people in the most severe conditions,help them control their activities in the future, and also remarkablycontribute to ecological development as well as economic stabilisation.
Earlierthis year, the Bamboo Blooming House won the International ArchitectureAward 2014, an annual prize awarded by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum ofArchitecture and Design in collaboration with the European Centre forArchitecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The winner in theHouse of the Year category at this year's WAN Awards was a house inMadrid designed by Estudio, Spain, while the shortlisted entriesincluded The Garden House in London, the United Kingdom; Villa H36 inStuttgart, Germany; and Narigua House, Monterrey, Mexico, as well asNannup House in Perth, Australia.
The WAN Awards are the world'slargest architectural awards programme with 1,379 entries, 317international judges and 72 participating countries, as well as 55,000Wan App users and 1,400,000 page views of worldarchitecturenews.com.
The other categories at the awards include Performing Spaces, Sustainable Building of the Year, Landscape and Adaptive Reuse.-VNA
