Home for Elderly People Built by the Community with Structural Elements of Laminated Bamboo Guadua in a Rural Area of Colombia

Abstract:

In the past four years the research project "Design and construction of housing with structural elements of bamboo guadua laminated" was developed in order to show the potential of industrial use of this material and to increase its demand for housing construction. As a result of the research, in the village of Ibama in the municipality of Yacopi, Department of Cundinamarca, Colombia, a home for elderly people was built using structural elements of laminated bamboo guadua, with the participation of the community under the supervision of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (National University of Colombia). This paper presents the steps followed: the architectural and structural design based on the experimental results of samples and elements, the manufacture process, the test of a part of the structure and the construction on site.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 600)
• Pages: 773-782
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.600.773
• Online since: March 2014
• Authors: Patricia Luna, Caori Takeuchi
• Keywords: Guadua angustifolia, Laminated Bamboo, Prototype

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