The Bali-based bamboo building team has luxury villas, houses, schools and infrastructure buildings in their portfolio, and is renowned for their dedication to using traditional Indonesian building techniques.
Green School has built every structure on campus out of the most sustainable material they could find: bamboo. They felt the need to be involved in a sustainable industry. By using bamboo they had endless creative possibilities of working with natural materials and skilled local craftsmen.
They spend time with the people who will be using it. Sketching and making simple real-scale mockups on the site. Once the placements are clear, they will build 1:50 scale structural models out of bamboo. bamboo. "This is where the art—and engineering—happen." The bamboo builders follow this model (not blueprints) to build the structure of the house. There are over 100 people involved in construction, with an average of 20 onsite at one time. No heavy machinery, no cranes, no bulldozers. Walls are woven onsite, and craftsmen whittle bamboo pins to pin splits of bamboo skin onto the floor one by one. These are truly hand-made homes.
Elora (Firm's Founder):
"Bamboo is a truly sustainable unrivalled timber, with the compressive strength of concrete and the tensile strength of steel. The kind of timber we use, Petung (or Dendorocalaus asper) can have as much as 18 meters of useable length. It’s lightweight, hollow, round, curving, and tapering. It’s also flexible, making it ideal for earthquakes, as it will bend and flex long before it breaks. There are 1450 species of Bamboo in the world, and my team uses 7 of them."
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