Bamboo and seismic resilience: new frontiers in housing

Housing NOW Myanmar

Housing NOW Myanmar demonstrates how modular bamboo architecture provides safe, rapid, and dignified homes for displaced families In March 2025, a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar (Burma), leaving Mandalay in ruins. Only 15 km from the epicenter, 26 bamboo houses built by Housing NOW Myanmar for already displaced families remained intact. Each unit withstood the […]