So one young entrepreneur is using local bamboo to build affordable homes in mere hours. The Philippines has one of Asia’s fastest-growing populations and it desperately needs more houses –12 ...

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 ...

Jenina, 36, and Adam, 38, spent about $60,000 building a tiny house in the Philippines countryside. They were inspired by the design of shepherd's huts in the UK, where Adam is from. Now ...

"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 ...

It’s also an incredibly expensive place to live–so much so that the poorest residents often end up renting tiny ... Each small house is made with bamboo because it’s strong, lightweight ...

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 ...