Update on Weekend Retreat in Nagarvalli

The wonder grass team recently visited an older project that was complete in April of 2009. The weekend retreat in Nagarvalli, some 30klms from Bangalore, India. This house was built for a weekend retreat as well as a guesthouse for the owners. It was made for Wonder Grass to understand the needs and programmatic responses to small living structures that might have different users occupying it, but still remain the same size. This will be a good precedent for the upcoming prototype for a bamboo housing that will accommodate
a growing family. This project needs extensive research on site
experimentation, and to have this weekend retreat as a starting is
very useful. Some of the things that need to be solved are the simple
connections that come between gable ends, truss wall connections,
etc. The flexibility of a bamboo house is a new scheme as far as we know. A bamboo building or house has to accommodate a changing family. If it does not, then there is a conflict between the dwelling and it's residents. We can see that now with housing for the majority of low-income families throughout the world. The relationship between the user and his/her house should be where there is a constant stream of dialogue between the user's needs. Out bamboo house will be roughly 200 sq ft in it's first stage, and in it's finally stage will be over 600sqft. These stage will be documented and studied as well as published on our blog. Wonder Grass has fortunately has the ability to make it's own research projects such as the weekend retreat shown here.