The world of bamboo is huge and hijacks all my delights. Bamboos are herbs. Big herbs, but grass. A variety of genera and species are called bamboo. The characteristic that unites them is the formation of the hard cane. And this cane has given the bamboo diffusion. For ground support, bridges, canals, enclosures, fences, parks, poultry houses, cages, stairs, buildings, houses... Why not use bamboo? It's called poor wood in Colombia. It is used in small pieces to make East Asian style food chopsticks and, which is seen more and more in this last period, for flooring boards.

Construction is the future of bamboo. Bamboo allows the construction of scaffolding structures that would otherwise be almost impossible: it is poor in load, strength, easy and cheap to transport and handle. It is the scaffold of the most modern constructions, but also part of them. It is increasingly used to have the structure of the building itself. The bamboo is perfect from an ecological point of view. A beautiful local resource. On the other hand, it provides extraordinary possibilities for creation, and you will find it everywhere in artistic construction as in artistic buildings. See, for example, the works of the Starn architectural brothers (www.starnstudio.com).

Barely bamboo, it’s been a few years since it was brought to us, but the cane, Arundo donax, we use it here with guilt. For shelters, walls of houses, closures, wind barriers, etc., and especially for sticks in parades or fields and orchards. He was a friend of the farmer. His need involved cutting the cane annually, with growth in some way under control. The abandonment of the cane and the use of plastic nets and iron pardas for field work has brought peace to the cane field. The possibility of unlimited dissemination.