Building Paradigm
From:	e.
To:	trevoroche
Date:	Tue, Jun 11, 2019 11:18 am

Graham Trow Thanks for adding some light to this. Bamboo construction is wonderfully apt. Bamboo grows like a weed. And we need to teach it along with other skills. I'm seeing a great diversity of architectural disciplines--wattle and daub, knog, bamboo... But they can function in a different and complementary way to whatever colonial structures remain or can be replicated. The colonial structures go on the outside, next to the street, and are what the tourist sees. The tourist is then being educated about Jamaica's stylistic heritage, as are our own people benefitting from the tourism. Wattle and daub would seem to be compatible with colonial reconstruction; it is plastered over to resemble any other form of masonry. You can also add on and experiment with other types of construction at the back, out of sight from the road (and this universal approach would fascinate the tourist as well if they visited the inside). We would be setting a global trend for diversity, sustainability, and practicality.