Bamboo Architecture: the Laboratory
Creating sculptural bamboo architecture is a journey of discovery, there is no question about that. It can be deeply nourishing,...
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STORIES
Excerpts from the evolving adventure of life at Ekawa...
Mar 44 min read
Questions and answers about the Ekawa Bamboo Village
Many people ask us about the Ekawa Bamboo Village. So in this blog post we wish to answer many of the questions that we are often asked.
Feb 43 min read
...from Pioneering Adventure to Wild Family Lifestyle
It has been a long time since writing a blog post. We are now returning after taking some time out to grow into becoming a family, with a...
Apr 16, 20212 min read
Beginning a rainforest village
The joy of nurturing one hectare of land can be found in a sense of simplicity and realness in everyday life: eating from your own...
Feb 10, 20212 min read
Sounds of earth and sky
In the watershed there is never absolute silence. Often, something close to silence can be experienced late at night and in the very...
Dec 30, 20201 min read
A poem towards the potential of built space
Our built environment has a responsibility to hold and nurture our deepest selves. After all it is our third skin and our home within...
Nov 13, 20203 min read
Specialisation in the world
Specialisation of action has been an important aspect of human culture for centuries. It is also a part of animal nature, in the sense of...
Oct 23, 20203 min read
Architecture from co-creation
Bringing our marriage into a space of co-creation in almost all areas of our lives is a daily learning, a moment-by-moment sharing, a...
Oct 9, 20203 min read
From self-sufficiency to togetherness
Several years ago I was enamoured with the dream of van life. I had re-furbished a VW crafter van to be my home and architectural office...
Jul 4, 20203 min read
A new conception of home
We are beginning to understand the term ‘home’ in a new sense, reaching much beyond the bamboo structures we have built to live in, or...
Jul 2, 20202 min read
Building as a team
We arrived to the rainforest with a dream to create a home amongst nature and to explore how this space can be shared with others. Our...
Jun 11, 20203 min read
Tales from a regenerative farmer
As we were preparing for the adventure of moving to the rainforest in Colombia, we had a number of farewell gatherings with friends and...
May 23, 20203 min read
Medardo's coffee parable
Medardo (aged 70) is another or our collaborators. He once told us the story of how the coffee plant was transformed during his lifetime....
Apr 15, 20202 min read
Impulse for action
Our project began with the question ‘how can the act of living be an offering?’. To us this was about an exploration of what the human...
Apr 10, 20203 min read
Joaquin's motherland
Joaquin (aged 69) has been our closest collaborator since we’ve lived in the rainforest. He is a real “campesino”, to use the local term...
Mar 13, 20203 min read
Designing, Living and Building
We have made a decision to find the peak of our aliveness which has involved moving to live in the rainforest. When we first arrived, we...
Jan 11, 20204 min read
Spontaneity in building
The process of constructing a bamboo building as part of this team is a beautiful process. We begin with a survey of the rocks, trees and...
Jan 1, 20202 min read
Intentions behind Symbiosis
During our careers as architects and in our lives of adventure, we have observed in worldwide landscape conditions that a schism exists...
Oct 24, 20193 min read
Our bamboo story
We stumbled across bamboo by chance. We were living in the UK and were invited to run an architecture design-build workshop with a...
Sep 7, 20192 min read
The watershed... 'La Cuenca'
One day we realised that the space we are living in is an entire watershed. We had just discovered a route that connects our home in the...
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