With climate change and other crises upon us, it’s time to consider mud and bamboo architecture more seriously. Mud architecture. In wattle and daub, mud replaces concrete and bamboo replaces steel. Treated bamboo is preferred, yet is not a must if it would be completely embedded inside the stabilised mud wall. Columnar support if provided by bamboo and mud roof supported over split bamboo over bamboo mat completes the picture of a bamboo and mud architecture.

Source: The Hindu September 11, 2020 13:36 UTC