Housing NOW is a modular bamboo housing system that provides rapid, affordable homes in Myanmar’s conflict- and disaster-affected regions.
They use small-diameter bamboo bundled into structural frames that interlock to form the backbone of each house. This method uses abundant, low-value bamboo culms from local sources and transforms them into load-bearing construction elements through bundling, bracing and jointing techniques.
These units are designed to be assembled quickly on site with basic tools and local labor. The system prioritizes simplicity, resilience and adaptability. Frames are prefabricated using a structured process, then transported to sites where families and trained builders erect them together.
The resulting structures provide raised floors and ventilated spaces suitable for the region’s climate, and the modular nature allows variations in layout or façade treatment.
This hybrid construction technique allows for combining the industrialization of prefabricated ‘structural frames’ with local construction of the remaining parts of the house, resulting in a large-scale, affordable and high-quality solution.
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