2010 Welcomes Wondergrass With Open Arms

With our guesthouse in working condition we have our designer from the US moving in as the first occupant in our first ever bamboo two story home. The top photo shows the ground floor especially designed to house our designers at work. Creating, discussing, and producing some innovative and breakthrough designs that will take Wonder Grass and bamboo into the new decade. The bottom photo shows the studio that is directly above the ground floor. A cozy and welcoming room. For 2010 Wonder Grass has had the the blessings of new and exciting work opportunities. Because of the hard work of several of our architects, Wonder Grass is heading into the new year, with exciting new projects, and a growing portfolio that gains valuable experience and confidence to be a foundation for years to come.

The long term goal for Wonder Grass is an ambitious one, but most valuable to the people of India, as well other countries of world. Develop, distribute, and lay down a system of centers that provides innovative affordable bamboo housing options for citizens all over the sub-continent of India. A network or franchises that work together as centers across India that can serve their local housing needs, but also come together as a larger infrastructure to accommodate large scale housing projects. Those housing projects can include responses to natural disasters that call for immediate, affordable housing that works, serves the needs of the users, and provides alternative to disaster prone building materials such as that of concrete, and brick. As we have seen in the country of Haiti, the devastation was evident, but the main perpetrator was the inadequate building systems that of concrete/cement brick. In that case, the earthquake did not kill people, but the buildings did.

As a fellow designer I believe it is a moral responsibility to the mass audiences who do not have adequate funds for great housing, to be given an affordable option, that is safe, secure, and allows them an expression of themselves in the built form. A solution that covers many tragedies of today's modern building methods. As we look forward to the coming months and years, we forecast a gradual change in perception of bamboo as a modern building option. Bamboo's biggest obstacle to housing humanity, is not the grass it's self, but in humanities naive understanding of it's incredible capacities. The sun rise at our building center in Nagpur gives us a constant reminder, that no matter was happens, there is always a fresh new beginning that gives new opportunities for change. A nice reminder while building with bamboo's forgiving nature.