Solar powered home made of out bamboo by the Tonji University Shanghai

Why use bricks and cement when you can live in a house made of bamboo! That’s probably what the guys at the Tonji University Shanghai thought too, while sketching out and coming up with this house. And yes, it wouldn’t look out-of-place in a jungle too! Well, Tarzan sure would love this one, and so did we. The Bambu House at the European Solar Decathlon isn’t just made out of green stuff, it works using green energy too. The house is juiced up by energy from the sun, with its sloping roofs integrating solar panels, large enough to generate 9kW powering its bedroom and living room.

The house uses a combination of Chinese architecture and a touch of technology too, making it an ideal place to live in. boasting temperature and humidity control systems, high-level thermal insulation systems, and a bamboo enclosed garden, this one took a team of 20 members of doctors, postgraduates, and undergraduate students six months to design and construct. A solar powered home made out of bamboo sure seems a welcome change to those old energy sucking concrete jungles we have around.



[Inhabitat]