The Housing NOW undertaking addresses house insecurity in quite a lot of reasonably priced, environment friendly and sustainable methods. Began by Blue Temple, an structure design studio based mostly in Myanmar, the buildings are constructed utilizing bamboo that’s domestically out there and endlessly renewable.

Along with the low prices and diminished air pollution from eliminating lengthy transport emissions, the regionally accessed bamboo is a flexible product that’s appropriate for quite a lot of makes use of. 

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Whereas bamboo isn’t new in building, Blue Temple’s method is an progressive spin on conventional strategies that maximizes slim shoots by bundling them collectively. The results of three years of analysis, this method has drawn consideration for its capacity to offer low-cost and swift building alternatives. Within the case of the Housing NOW undertaking, properties for refugees could be inbuilt as little as every week and value about the identical as your common smartphone. 

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Prefabricating the panels within the group’s workshop expedites the method as soon as the panels arrive onsite. With the assistance of the area people, buildings supply a fast response for emergency housing in distant components of the nation affected by pure disasters and the outcomes of governmental instability throughout the area. Locals are skilled within the building course of, providing precious talent constructing and a supply of revenue. On this means, Blue Temple created a brand new business that helps the economic system and gives a process drive that may reply to housing wants throughout essentially the most pressing instances.  

Based on a press launch by Blue Temple, “For the reason that navy coup in Myanmar in February 2021, practically two million folks have been internally displaced within the nation,” so this undertaking isn’t solely well timed, however presents a template for comparable areas across the globe. At the moment, Blue Temple’s structure design studio is searching for assist to scale up the manufacturing of low-cost bamboo housing for refugees in susceptible communities in Myanmar.

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Photographs through Nyan Zay Hte,  Raphaël Ascoli, Alex Dyl and Matias Bercovich