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Design of Earthquake-Resistant Bamboo House

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Bamboo is a renewable building material and is widely available in Indonesia. From about 1,250 species of bamboo in the world, 140 species or 11% of them are native to Indonesia. In Indonesia have long used bamboo for building houses, furniture, farm equipment, crafts, musical instruments, and food. However, bamboo is not a priority of development and is still seen as “poor people’s material that easily damaged.”

Bamboo has a power that can to compete with steel. Due to that high flexibility and strength, the structure of bamboo is also an earthquake-resistant building.

In principle, earthquake-resistant bamboo houses should be made with the following conditions:

  1. Using bamboo is old, has been preserved and in the dry state,
  2. Bamboo houses built on flat ground (solid)
  3. Foundation and Sloof (Sloof plugged into the foundation at each distance 50-100 cm) around the house plans
  4. The lower end of the bamboo columns go to the foundation and the inside of the lower end of the column is filled with reinforcement and mortar),
  5. Elements associated with the column wall should be plugged in some places,
  6. At the end of the column is given a ring that circled the block plan of the building, wall elements must also be plugged in to the ring beam,
  7. If there are wall openings such as wind-wind, windows and doors, should be strengthened in the opening round.
  8. At each meeting of the wall with the other wall.
  9. Framework of the roof (the horses) can be constructed with a simple pedestal (joint-rollers), where every seat frame roof should be put in place.
  10. Association of the wind on the roof should be installed at each inter horses. This wind ties, installed at the field slope of the roof under the roof covering, and in the vertical plane between two horses.

Tips To Increase the Quality of Housing

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  • Make a trellis and planting vines on trellises around the outside of the house (can be done on the walls and or fences as well as an empty space on the page)
  • Soothing the home and produce food. Make a pergola around the house (adjusted for ambient conditions)
  • Provide a trellis vines, and cool the outside of the home
  • Plant shade trees of productive
  • Provide shade and cool air around the house
  • Placing the toilet and washing facilities, and adjust the direction of the wind outside
  • Prevents odors and impurities
  • Waste water flows into the filtering of productive
  • Clean water and sewage flow into productive plants
  • Creating ventilation and air flow in a good home
  • (hot air rises and flows out through the top vents and cool air in through the bottom)
  • Keep out of the house remains cool without charge
  • Insulation and noise temperature
  • Adjust the temperature and reducing noise pollution
  • Prevention of mosquitoes in the bedroom, where possible, the entire house.
  • Reduce the risk of infectious disease through mosquito
  • The placement of windows to get light or sunlight and
  • Increase the light in the house, reducing eye disorders
  • (sun light is the light that comes from sunlight, attempted to reproduce the sun’s light and minimized reduces incoming sunlight directly)
  • Windbreak trees that fit around the house or rural
  • Reduce wind and increase comfort, reduce the potential damage caused by wind
  • Fish ponds near the house
  • providing food, adjust the temperature and as a place to hold stagnant water

Home Improvement Tips

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Often the implementation of home remodeling projects do not go according to plan in because of several factors will be able to deplete the cost, energy and mind. To that end here are some you should consider before starting a home remodeling job.

Planning a renovation concept of home design

Ask for suggestions and opinions from the experts make house layout design changes that will be done properly and carefully. Should any home remodeling job, do not make major changes or significant beyond the concept that you have made ​​because it would result in disruption of the course of the project and cost overruns.

Budget problems

Plan your budget carefully and count the cost of renovating the house and try to prepare reserve surcharge of 25% of the budget. Check price – latest price of materials and anticipated increases in the price with a surcharge of 15%.

Check the condition of houses carefully

To find out the real condition of your home state ask for services of an architect or an experienced handyman to determine the condition of near-perfect house, checking the field such as hitting a few walls to test the strength of existing structures, for ascertain whether the existing structure can still be maintained or must be replaced with new structures.