The bamboo house, a form that architect Rosario Encarnacion Tan says is “in the DNA” of Filipino life, is strategically open so that high winds from the typhoons that hit the Philippines each ...

Their traditional bamboo homes float on the water and are resilient ... The floating houses built to withstand typhoons and flooding in the Philippines Marites Babanto, one of the leaders of ...

CAN A MODEST house made of bamboo provide the solution to addressing the housing crisis in the Philippines? For Cubo Modular, a start-up that designs and builds bamboo houses, the answer is yes.

"Bamboo is a symbol of poverty in the Philippines. If you live in a bamboo house, you're very poor - that's basically how it was before," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "But bamboo now ...

"Bahay Pinoy" showcases the use of bamboo as a building material for sturdy houses. Bamboo was used for centuries by Filipinos as a building material for houses. But it light weight ...

Base Bahay aims to establish bamboo as part of the building code not just in the Philippines, but in other countries as well, Jorillo said. At the moment, BIC’s research touches on a variety of ...

The bamboo house, a form that architect Rosario Encarnacion Tan says is “in the DNA” of Filipino life, is strategically open so that high winds from the typhoons that hit the Philippines each ...

"Bamboo is a symbol of poverty in the Philippines. If you live in a bamboo house, you're very poor - that's basically how it was before," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "But bamboo now ...