I wish I could be there and live there. Wonders of the imagination

Beautiful. We are on our way there. I began using a composing toilet last year. Nothing better for the food than poo and pee! :)

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Very simple indeed..

I LOVE IT

How well does bamboo do when the house settles over time? My home was built in 1936, and I had to replace a small, 6 pane french window that opens out, and my son left it open for over a year, so when I went to shut it, it wouldn't shut, didn't fit the window frame anymore, that's how much the house had settled in one year. Since bamboo is so light & curved (and I assume don't match perfectly), would that make it settle even worse? It seems like a bamboo home would eventually get really warped.

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yes, I see your point... the simpler the better... the sky and environment provide the beauty... a simple shelter is enough for most lives or even better ultimately for everyone... AND all animal habitat.

I suggest you to go to northern part of Bali island

I suggest you to go to northern part of Bali island

Wow, "Tim Countis" doesn't sound like a native Balinese name... Sad that other white people have discovered your exotic paradise?

You'll love Zaha Hadid's work, and may she rest in peace

@@RareCandeh lol I was about to say the same thing! "There are 360 degrees, why only pick one of them" - Zaha Hadid

Like an Elf house >_

campupot blues didn't she said it in bali...??

Andra Utd She meant they also use bamboo for their houses just not as creative as in the video.

yes it's common to our country because there are so many poor families there wo can't afford to buy or build a cemented house and besides it is more cheaper,however im not certain if its typhoon resistant cause its made out of light materials and obviously not a fire resistant.well it is in our culture.

And in northeast India.

@@andraautd it doesn't exist only in Bali. All around the world, including southeast and South Asia

I don't want to live there.

I want to leave in a bamboo house. But..... I think more and more bamboo house than no bamboo anymore. Or no bamboo at all!

sdhpCH agreed

bamboo is fast growing grass. 2 years and you can harvest them :)

Same here. We have a great summer house and my dad told me about how they built an extra room. So I looked now at the house and said: I want to build a mother fucking TOWAH!! And so that's my goal now to one day expand the summer house with a sweet looking tower

I putu surya Sujana and only those who are privileged can get in there. the commoners just go to public school.

@@danwlilvi4384 what do you expect lol, I mean tbh better just go to public schools. Some public schools also are more expensive to get it than this school

I'm sure they were paid enough to compel them to work, I'll assume they enjoyed it more than a Tim Hortons worker here enjoys working to afford a sketchy apartment, bus pass and some low end food. I'd do construction work as a slave before working in retail on min wage. Working without learning is worse than any job that offers knowledge, and they have an almost limitless learning opportunity working with an abundant material here. People can be compelled to work for reasons beyond lucrative compensation, which in itself is not enough for most craftspeople.

@Smileyrie James because that's what capitalists westerners do. They work others like slaves and take credit for the results. Where is the pictures of this white girl carrying bamboo? Whites around the world act like saviors, but never promote the good of other societies.

@@brightlight7217 You are painting every human of a specific ethnicity with the same brush. I encourage you to get out and meet more people and try to understand them before judging. I promise, your life would be enriched the more people you meet, because you'll see most are just like you regardless of ethnicity. :)

Boom!the Chinese have been building with bamboo for centuries. White people are not that creative as they would like us to imagine,just opportunists and seasoned in the art of exploitation without other races-they have nothing and own nothing. Shameless cultural appropriationists.

they got paid $1 per week. Thats good enough.

Move please, Bali is literally heaven.

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Let's move there... Can I take Montana's Mountains with me?

the time for sweet.

You were in *Bali*, did you visit this house *****?

Amid Yousef Yes, I would like to know, are these places open to public ? They really look very nice :)

Same

Okiba I want a panda

Okiba back in the Philippines i live in our bamboo house with four bedrooms 2 storey and been there for 32 yrs now.we renovated it few times. I slept on the floor of bamboo, bed made of bamboo etc. It is so cool and i miss it a lot. I was born in that house.

now i wish i had a dad

they look pretty dope

Adrian Except in Dubai, there it's dust you want to keep out.

Looks like you did Bamboo Indah as well? THAT place is epic.

yet i wonnu know that too

Bamboo is common in tropics not cold areas but I agree it also gets cold in tropics

That was the point. Bamboo is seen as a poor man's material so she wanted to change that perspective by creating houses that the rich would buy

@@martinmontagut2920 no rich person would live in a flammable house that you can't lock up.

@@MyMotherWasaNinja u completely misunderstood the whole point of the video then

yeah but uhhh, this idea has been tooken way before she came along, right around the tiny house movement, the poor people in bamboo fufilled areas, the people would just use bamboo to save the trees

@@ChillingCap so? let she

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@@user-yx7dp2pl8t Looking at something from a reasonable angle? Hurricanes are a thing on islands like Bali, fyi

just build a new one.. oh just build it again.

if you have something that is hurricane resistant please share it with the class.... Because regular homes are also destroyed by them.

Not fire or termite resistant

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It depends on the place, I mean I wouldn't build something like this in urban areas but this would be very ideal in rural villages but then again I'm still very concerned about fire since bamboo is a light material and burns easily.

One of the main reasons why I prefer the provinces compare to big cities like manila.

BelgianTuber yeah depends on the place. I live in the province. when we go out, we leave our doors and gates unlocked. we don't worry coz we have 9 dogs who bite strangers haha

i agree with BelgianTuber even in the province a house like this would be a target unless there was a caretaker resident 24/7 365 and that assumes you can trust the caretaker!

consider that it is a principle that goes beyond all this. t he project deals with a third world economy,. If you live in Europe, or USAin a country with first order world economy, surely you can buy a 2 buy 4 and fix your home. Advice: You should travel a little and understand what other families who do not have anything need to survive in countries that do offer any support for you and you family. She says that at the beginning of the movie. You could not see that?

A lot less than a comparable structure built out of our commonly used building materials...

If you don't need a permit or inspections, this is 100% possible

@@Roo2ooR wrong. common materials are cheaper, easier to work with, and much more reliable. why do you think they are so common?

@@dimago11 Certainly the uniformity of our manufactured building materials we commonly use does make them easier in many ways to work with. But other traits of bamboo such as its flexibility, its ability to span long distances without support, and its light weight make it easier to work with in those ways. The biggest reduction in the cost of bamboo as a building material compared to traditional building materials like tree lumber is the rate at which viable, appropriately sized plants can be grown, harvested, and replenished is a fraction of what it takes to produce tree lumber. Much more bamboo can be produced in much less time using much less land and is much easier to harvest. This all drives its cost down significantly lower than tree lumber. If you believe traditional materials are cheaper than bamboo I challenge you to build comparable structures to these in her video out of those commonly used materials and see what those buildings will cost you. First the materials themselves will be much more expensive. Second the amount of building materials required to support those structures and span those open spaces without center supports will be greater. It will require more traditional materials to build similar structures because it will require beefier supports, thicker floor and ceiling joists, and most likely require more expensive steel I-beams to cover the vast open spaces without obtrusive center supports.. The nature of bamboo enables it to span great distances with very narrow, hollow light weight structural supports which results in less building material being required to support the structure...meaning a smaller amount of building material that is much less expensive to produce is required. That translates into a significantly lower building costs.

@@Roo2ooR As long as you have a small army of highly skilled craftsmen you may next to nothing to weave floors and ceilings together... You have to face it maybe it can be optimised to a point where it is as good or better than traditional building but this entire thing relies on hard, long and arduous labour which if you paid them like normal tradesmen in America would be paid would be completely unaffordable. The time these people spent on building that house will be astronomical compared to traditional building. This is not realistically sustainable. It was only possible there because there is an excess of tradesmen, it is a poor country and nobody is building these kinds of things yet. If everyone needs these craftsmen their wages go up and nobody will be able to afford them anymore. There may very well be promise in it if you can create an industry and standards that match those of traditional building. Otherwise it is just an interesting experiment but little more. You can make a house out of plastic bottles or legos, solid granite or glass as well that doesn't mean it could ever become standard building practice which is determined by cost, sustainability and availibility.

giant companies don't want you to know all about hemp

Maggy Frog That is true. But I know quite a lot about hemp... 😎 I also know that all the big companies are blocking it...

In Bowen Island, BC there's a company that makes tiny homes made of hemp. They use Hempcrete which is a concrete made of hemp hurd, fibre and lime, making it a renewable building material.

Plus, it's fiber is water resistant

It also doesn't have 70 foot stems. I think hemp + bamboo is a good combo. Someone tell this lady.

How many world do we really have on this planet? Why do you white folks always love degrading other people?

@Darkhandsome From a different point of view than yours ... in a different cultural context ... it is NOT condecending or degrading. It has to do with the fact of acknowledging that there are regions in the world which are less developed and are in "a very bad shape" financially and industrially. This is more than just a reminder that richer countries need to help others ... It is ment to give room for applying different "rules" for these countries and their specific needs ... But of course cultural context also does change over decades and centuries. There is no need for you to sling insults at me. Have a nice day ;)

Well, it was not my intention to sling insults at you and I don't think I said anything insulting but I am sorry if you feel insulted. However; this is how most of us feel each time those Europeans and Americans refer to us as people from the third world or our countries as third countries. There is only one world and we are from the same world, not because Europeans and Americans have stolen and continue to steal our resources to enrich themselves and make us and our countries poorer!

Darkhandsome it doesn't matter whether Europeans or Americans have quote on quote stolen your resources you all were tribal and weren't going to do s*** anyway since the beginning of time every race tribe Creed has fought and stolen for resources so don't start that BS you are just mad because your tribe were the losers you're not a good person if given the opportunity you switch places in the heart beat that's why you're still bitching like someone owes you something people like you keep a life victim card in the back of your wallets

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well each wooden house is. Moreover concrete and brick wall houses are too vulnerable because we usually use wallpapers or wall paint which are extremely flammable

The whole Western civilization is marked by extremism. You'll never find balanced thinking in anything they do. This video is the same.

@@MaruskaStarshaya you didn't get what OP was saying. Try to read his comment again.

@@MaruskaStarshaya absolute bullshit

@@granada1493 amazing that you know everything about the whole of western civilisation and everything they do.

fire?

typhoons at 200kph+ are common southeast asia

Definitely not good for colder weather I don't think.

some backsides: bugs, cost, maintenance, the toilet, centrally hinged teardrop doors, fire, wind, more bugs....

Dr. No at least you have the right name… you obviously didn’t watch the video however. I think it’s exquisite.

Jd Ck No, not true, I'm poor and I live in a bamboo forest in Japan #homelesslife #kimosabe

ashmadallah versteeg your channel settings say you're in Canada

You believe what you see on the Internet? For shame lol

Jd Ck In my country people live in bamboo houses because they can't afford concrete and such. So it's actually pretty cheap :)

Jd Ck It looks like the one shown is a holiday apartment for £216 a night, so I think that's squarely middle class for westerners. So I've just found the prices for similar places and they are surprisingly cheap. It's about $275k for somewhere that looks impressive, so you can choose between that or a tiny box in London, maybe the dream if you can work remote. I keep seeing the phase "last a lifetime" which is weird because a house should last much longer than that.

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Borax is used to poison ☠️ ants 🐜. It is relatively harmless to humans. I still would not eat ANY of it.