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Shelter, Sustainability, and the Rural Poor

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Now we examine use of low cost, second grade bamboo. Notice that geometric size expansion quickly reached the point of field trials. The bamboo is meant to be covered as the framing was in the previous example, it thus becomes a mold to make a fiber girder which can be reinforced until the bamboo is structurally redundant.