The goal of the recently set up Bambú Social Foundation is to improve the housing conditions in Nicaragua by creating a sustainable, affordable and comfortable house. This goal is to be reached together with the local community, governmental and non-governmental organizations and experts from all over the world.
This social housing project can be considered as an opportunity is to contribute to solve the housing problems in Nicaragua. This will be an iterative process that will eventually meet its higher goal: contributing to the development of Nicaragua.
The deliverables of the project Bambú Social show that bamboo housing is feasible. Bamboo has the potential of becoming a standard building material and be adapted by the architects and universities, who are the engineers of the future.
The mission of Bambú Social is to solve the housing problem in Nicaragua by sharing knowledge with local students and craftsmen and stimulate the social acceptance of bamboo as a construction material.
In Rostow’s theory this movement is called transition and will be the first steps of the curve (take-off).