{"id":575676,"date":"2010-05-22T05:32:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T09:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/mothers-star-gazing-gets-an-architect-to-build-house-with-an-umbrella-roof\/"},"modified":"2010-05-22T05:32:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T09:32:48","slug":"mothers-star-gazing-gets-an-architect-to-build-house-with-an-umbrella-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575676","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s star gazing gets an architect to build house with an &#8216;Umbrella Roof&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/05\/22\/bamboo-house_1_OPk6G_69.jpg\" alt=\"bamboo house_1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Sustainable house made using bamboo.<\/p>\n<p>This bamboo house has been designed by architect Benjamin Garcia Saxe of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjamingarciasaxe.com\/\">Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture<\/a> for his mother, who always kept dreaming of a place that she could call home. After becoming transfixed with the moon and the sun, she inspired her son to build a permanent bamboo house with a cone-shaped \u201cumbrella roof\u201d that opens to reveal the natural elements.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/05\/22\/bamboo-house_2_Re9jI_69.jpg\" alt=\"bamboo house_2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The house is composed of two separate modules \u2013 a kitchen\/living area and a bedroom space. The bamboo house inverts the role of the forest by bringing it inside, hence meeting the needs of the architect\u2019s mother in providing her with a permanent dwelling which retains an intimate relationship with the natural environment. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/05\/22\/bamboo-house_3_YHjyG_69.jpg\" alt=\"bamboo house_3\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/05\/22\/bamboo-house_4_cbuZK_69.jpg\" alt=\"bamboo house_4\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/05\/22\/bamboo-house_5_O8GPb_69.jpg\" alt=\"bamboo house_5\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/05\/22\/bamboo-house_6_Byycy_69.jpg\" alt=\"bamboo house_6\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldarchitecturenews.com\/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&#038;upload_id=14032\">World Architecture News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Sustainable house made using bamboo. This bamboo house has been designed by architect Benjamin Garcia Saxe of Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture for his mother, who always kept dreaming of a place that she could call home. After becoming transfixed with the moon and the sun, she inspired her son to build a permanent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}