Building With Bamboo in Bali

who wouldn't want to wake up to this every day?                            screen shot

"From little huts to elaborate bridges, ... bamboo has been in use across the tropical regions of the world for literally tens of thousands of years," says designer and architect Elora Hardy. But I'm willing to bet it wasn't used like this. For Hardy, it all started with a fairy mushroom house her mother built from her then-9-year-old daughter's own "blueprint." Later, Hardy's father turned her on to bamboo, and she took it from there and ran ~ sustainably ~ all over the jungles of Bali (video): http://www.ted.com/talks/elora_hardy_magical_houses_made_of_bamboo#t-30259