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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. BB HOME in Ha Noi, Vietnam by H&P ArchitectsJanuary 17th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: H&P Architects In Vietnam, the natural phenomena are severe and various: storm, flood, sweeping floods, landslides, drouhgt, 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.  Image Courtesy © Doan Thanh Ha
 Image Courtesy © Doan Thanh Ha One solution to houses and homes for millions of these people is the goal of this BB (Blooming Bamboo) home. From the bamboo module of f8-f10cm & f4-f5cm diameter and 3.3m or 6.6 length, each house is simply assembled with bolting, binding, hanging, placing… This pulled monolithic architecture is strong enough to suffer from phenomena like 1.5m-high flood. Currently, H&P Architects is experimenting the model to suffer 3m-high flood. The space is multifuntional such as House, Educational, Medical and Community Center and can be spreaded if necessary.  Image Courtesy © Doan Thanh Ha From the fixed frame using f8-f10cm bamboo, the house 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 contribute to ecological development as well as economic stabilization. This will give condions for self-control process and create connection between vernacular culture and architecture.  Image Courtesy © Doan Thanh Ha  Image Courtesy © Doan Thanh Ha  Image Courtesy © Doan Thanh Ha  Image Courtesy © Doan Thanh Ha  Image Courtesy © Doan Thanh Ha  Image Courtesy © Doan Thanh Ha  Image Courtesy © Doan Thanh Ha  Image Courtesy © Doan Thanh Ha  Image Courtesy © Doan Thanh Ha  Image Courtesy © Doan Thanh Ha  Image Courtesy © Doan Thanh Ha  Image Courtesy © H&P Architects  Image Courtesy © H&P Architects  Image Courtesy © H&P Architects  Image Courtesy © H&P Architects  Image Courtesy © H&P Architects  Image Courtesy © H&P Architects
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