Bb Home designed by H&P Architects, In Vietnam, the natural phenomena are severe and various: storm, flood, sweeping floods, landslides, drought, etc… The damage every year, which is considerable compared to the world scale, takes away about 500 persons and 1.2%-GDP-equally assets and reduces the involved areas? development.

One solution to houses and homes for millions of these people is the goal of this BB (Blooming Bamboo) home.
Photography: Doan Thanh Ha
From the bamboo module of f8-f10cm & f4-f5cm diameter and 3.3m or 6.6 lengths, each house is simply assembled with bolting, binding, hanging, placing… This pulled monolithic architecture is strong enough to suffer from phenomena like a 1.5m-high flood. Currently, H&P Architects is experimenting with the model to suffer 3m-high flood. Space is multifunctional such as House, Educational, Medical, and Community Center and can be spread if necessary. Photography: Doan Thanh Ha
From the fixed frame using f8-f10cm bamboo, the housing cover can be finished according to its local climate and regional materials (f4-f5cm small bamboo, bamboo wattle, fiberboard, coconut leaf…) in order to create vernacular architecture.

The users can build the house by themselves in 25 days. Besides, it can be mass produced with modules and the total cost of the house is only 2500$. Therefore, the house can warm people in the most severe conditions and help them control activities in the future, also remarkably cont...