Bamboo Connected: Rethinking bamboo connections: designing a simplified system for connecting bamboo in order to develop housing units for a determinate target population in Ecuador

Bamboo has been used as a construction material since ancient times in tropical and subtropical parts of the world, because of the fastgrowing process, low cost and compressive, tensile and bending strength, that allow to create a lightweight and earthquake resistant structures. After 3 to 5 years bamboo is ready to harvest, and one clump of...