2006/2007 International Bamboo Building Design Competition

Competition Objectives

Develop new award winning designs for bamboo houses and designs for many types of buildings and structures.Raise awareness of the uses of certified structural bamboo for building code approved structures. Introduce architects, designers, builders and planners to working with bamboo as a structural material.

Promote a shared vision to create an environmentally sustainable housing alternative in the building industry. Nuture an emerging industry developing sustainable building products and crafts from bamboo. Promote preservation and restoration of native and natural forests of the world by replacing wood with bamboo products. Promote bamboo propagation, harvesting, manufacturing and building in an ecologically safe manner for the ecosystems and the people of the world
We are preparing a book based on designs of the Bamboo Competition. To be published next year, featuring many building designs.

Building Design Categories:
There are design categories for different types of bamboo buildings, and winners will be chosen in each design category.

Awards:
Competition is designed for winners in many categories. • Winning designs may be built by Bamboo Technologies, royalties to designer. • Overall First Prize $5,000. Second Prize $3,000. Third Prize $2,000. • Finalists announced on the competition website and can vote on best designs. • Winning designs will be announced in international publications and media. • Free stay in a bamboo resort house in Maui, Hawaii. • Finalists may be included in upcoming book on bamboo buildings.

Competition Awards:
competition is designed for winners in many categories. • Winning designs may be built by Bamboo Technologies, with royalties to designer. • Overall First Prize $5,000. Second Prize $3,000. Third Prize $2,000. • First Prizes in each building category to be announced. • Finalists are announced on the competition website and can vote on best designs. • Winning designs will be announced in international publications and media. • Free stay in a bamboo resort house in Maui, Hawaii. • Finalists may be included in upcoming book on bamboo buildings. (See new Treehouses in Paradise as an example of design competition book). • Winners in each building category receive free INBAR affiliate memberships.

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BambooTechnologies

Type Prijsvraag

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Prijs Overall First Prize $5,000. Second Prize $3,000. Third Prize $2,000

Prijsuitreiking 1 april

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