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State-of-the-art of practice in Colombia on engineered Guadua bamboo structures
Published in Y. Xiao, Z. Li, K.W. Liu, Modern Engineered Bamboo Structures, 2019
Bamboo is a woody perennial grass that belongs to the Poaceae family. In the world there are around 1,100 bamboo species, 451 of them are located in tropical America (Castaño et al., 2004). Guadua is a gigantic bamboo specie, being the biggest one in America and third biggest in the world. The stem or culm is the visible part of the Guadua, it has a conical cylinder form, which is divided by nodes, the distance between the nodes varies along the culm and the cavity between two nodes is known as internode. The diameter of the Guadua vary typically between 10 cm and 12 cm along the culm and its thicknesses also vary from 0.6 cm to 2 cm. Guadua has been considered an alternative earthquake-resistant material for structural purposes in countries like Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru and Ecuador. In Colombia, especially in the coffee zone, Guadua has been used in one and two story dwellings. Bahareque is the most used structural system for this type of buildings; this is a shear wall-based system that consists in guadua frames covered with “esterilla” (split guadua culm) panels and a steel mesh with mortar topping.
Case study: Seismic resistant constructive systems in El Salvador
Published in Mariana R. Correia, Paulo B. Lourenço, Humberto Varum, Seismic Retrofitting: Learning from Vernacular Architecture, 2015
F. Gomes, M.R. Correia, R.D. Nuñez
The bahareque consists of vertical and horizontal timber, or cane or bamboo elements, with earth mortar infill and an earth plaster finishing. The seismic resistance of the bahareque depends primarily on the condition of the timber and the cane elements.
Environmental, social and economic sustainability of bamboo and bamboo-based construction materials in buildings
Published in Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2019
Rashmi Manandhar, Jin-Hee Kim, Jun-Tae Kim
This is very similar to the traditional construction system found in some South American countries. This construction system is called Bahareque. This traditional construction system in El Salvador and Colombia has lasted centuries without substantial changes (Prieto, Mogollón, and Farbiarz 2001; López, Bommer, and Méndez 2004). Bahareque consists of timber vertical elements and horizontal timber, cane or bamboo elements, with mud infill and finished with plaster. Though in some cases like in Ecuador, the warm tropical climate makes it unnecessary and bamboo houses need little more than the split bamboo walls for privacy and ventilation (DeBoer and Groth 2010; Sassu et al. 2016). Figure 3 shows the baharaque techniques of Indonesia and Colombia.