Did you know that bamboo can grow between 3 and 10 centimeters a day! (Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo)
Today in class 5MJ learned about how the Green School in Bali was built using traditional methods. Here is a club house made by the Grade 7 and 8 students from the Green School. We looked at how they use many bamboo lengths to add strength to the structure.
We finished off our Community house designs. Here are some photos of the students building them.
Shereen compared her house with Marcello’s house. She tried using the Green School technique and added more bamboo for her columns. Shereen's house is very stable, but Marcelo used struts (to make a strong triangle shape between the roof joins to the columns) to add stability. This is more cost effective.
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