These Bamboo Micro-Homes Would Turn Abandoned Buildings Into Villages

These Bamboo Micro-Homes Would Turn Abandoned Buildings Into Villages

As China designs a roadmap to bring 100 million rural citizens into cities over the next five years, it and other booming east Asian countries will confront a problem that’s been around since the 1980s: The massive housing shortage and the illegal dwellings that result. Two architects think they’ve found a temporary solution in bamboo.

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