Bamboo Hut (Japan)
I spent one year of evenings and weekends cutting and hauling about 200 bamboo trees to a mountaintop in rural Hiroshima. I experimented with different techniques of cutting and using bamboo to take advantage of its beauty and strength.
Year: 2002
Time: ½ year of evenings & weekends
Skills: Framing, Bamboo Craft
Cost: $800
Build
Enjoy
First Try
Before building the big bamboo hut, I experimented with cutting and joining bamboo in a log-cabin style construction.
Of course this is not the right way to load bamboo in order to take advantage of its directions of strength.
I slept only one night there.
