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Are We Mindful? Are We Kind?
The Green School in Bali works towards having the lowest carbon footprint of any international school anywhere, through the use of bamboo and rammed earth for the school buildings. For the design, the school contacted PT Bamboo, a local architectural design-build firm that specializes in sustainable bamboo building. Energy is supplied by burning easily replenished […]
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Volunteers “Barn-Raise” a Low Carbon School in Bangladesh
The METI school was a barn-raising effort accomplished in just four months by local craftsmen, teachers, parents and students from Bangladesh. It won the Aga Khan award for architecture. Two European architects helped local craftsmen build on the traditional skills and materials, while refining the processes and learning new techniques to improve the safety and […]
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Take Kagu: Modern Bamboo Furniture by Sachiko Segawa
Recently graduated from Sweden’s Konstfack University, Japanese designer Sachiko Segawa presents her final degree project Take Kagu. Its name literally means “bamboo furniture” and is inspired by Segawa’s childhood memories of a bamboo forest and a new material – bamboo plywood. Using this new bamboo material, the designer created several pieces of furniture which in […]