This Woman Builds Stunning Sustainable Homes From Bamboo In Bali
Elora Hardy takes the bamboo house idea and runs with it, building magnificent structures made from an extremely sustainable material. She and her company Ibuku have already built many structures, including the Green School, Green Village and the magnificent Sharma Springs villa. These building proves that bamboo can not only be used for shelter, but to also create luxury. The curved form of the bamboo influenced the shape of the building and the doors . And while there are steel nails used at important structural points, most of the building is held together by bamboo nails.
Bamboo grows fast and has similar tensile strength to steel and the compression resistance of concrete, all points that Hardy raises on her TED talk. It’s also light which makes it easy to transport. However, it’s vulnerable to bugs and the elements – two key limitations that had to be overcome (via use of natural salts) even before they started building.
Elora Hardy comes from Bali and she returned there after a 10-year stint in New York. She created the Ibuku company to build bamboo houses in Bali, to prove bamboo as a suitable material for building. The company sources their material from independent bamboo clumps owned by individual families. And what set Hardy on her path? Her mom asked 9-year-old Hardy to draw her dream house… and then built it.
More info: ibuku.com | Facebook | Instagram (h/t: treehugger )
Elora Hardy’s TED talk on building bamboo houses:
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3D-Printed City Shells For Hermit Crabs by Aki Inomata
Japanese artist Aki Inomata combines architecture, cutting-edge 3D printing technology and hermit crabs together in one brilliant project, titled “Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs?” Inspired by the urban landscapes of the biggest cities in the world, Inomata used 3D printing to create elegant shells for the little hermit crabs, which change their shelters as soon as they grow out of their old ones. As they often borrow shells cast off by other species (like sea snails), Inomata decided to hand them beautiful new specially-made shelters instead.
The artist came up with this unique idea when she found out about a similar bit of behavior among humans; the location of the former French Embassy in Japan, which had been French land, became Japanese from October 2009 for the following fifty years, after which it will be returned to France. “ The same piece of land is peacefully transferred from one country to the other, ” writes Inomata. “ These kinds of things take place without our being aware of it. “
Be sure to click on the videos below, which will show not only the process of hermit crab shell 3D printing, but also the surreal spectacle of the crabs receiving their gifts.
More info: aki-inomata.com (h/t: spoon-tamago )
New York City
Windmill landscape
Thailand
Santorini, Greece
Port City
Greece
Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs?
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