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Hogar Monte Carmelo

Project Location: El Mangote, Bejuco-Chame, Panama
Building Type: Education Facility - Secondary School
Project Descripton: This project sets out to explore a broader definition of cutting edge architecture by reviving regional and sustainable thinking in a developing community in rural Panama. The Hogar Monte Carmelo is a Carmelite boarding school in the rural....

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Open-Source Bamboo Shelter

Project Location: Unspecified location
Building Type: Homeless Shelter, Emergency Shelter
Project Descripton: A process for community-built bamboo relief housing

“Bamboo DNA's strength comes from its collaborative network of talented people... artists, builders, performance artists, and pretty much anyone who has an interest in seeing bamboo....

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Sport Acupuncture, Bhutan-Beacon of Bamboo-A Project for the Last Shangri-La, Team 9-Drexel University Design Charrette

Project Location: Bhutan
Building Type: Community Center
Project Descripton: Beacon of Bamboo: A Project for the Last Shangri-La The most important aspect of our teams research was finding out about the land that is Bhutan and what makes it the "Last Shangri-La." We wanted to not only preserve the untouched and....

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chapel of bamboo

Project Location: cali, Colombia
Building Type: Public Space/Gathering Space
Project Descripton: To heal society first we have to heal our self, so we proposed to build a chapel to incorporate spirituality in The Cali Police Department. This space will be build by recyclable materials and bamboo as principle components.

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the hooch dwelling

Project Location: Rincon', Puerto Rico, United States
Building Type: Treehouse, Temporary Shelter
Project Descripton: a single point foundation, pre-fabricated treehouse. Stability maintained with cables to surrounding trees- no permanent foundation.

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Primary School in Southern Sudan

Project Location: Kajo- Keji - County, Central Equatorial State Sudan, Africa & Arab States
Building Type: Education Facility - Primary School
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PROJECT PLAN STRATEGY

Main objective is to create and multiply basic primary school on site. That is a good choice in short and long term thinking of all those people coming back to their land of origin.

The....

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