Bamboo Truss Build/Test with WashU & ITCR, Cartago, CRC

Architecture Students from the University of Washington in MO visited Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica with Arq. Wyly Brown to join forces with Hans Hernández M. and Piedra, Bamboo & Madera team for the fabrication of Bamboo Trusses for warehouse building purposes with different lashing techniques and joinery to test and investigate behaviors for potential mass production. Several pieces were fabricated to be tested on weight creating information and papers in Costa Rica to open the Bamboo market and spread the use of bamboo as a regenerative natural building material.