We’re building a prototype toilet/shower with MD modules– 16 glass bottles siliconed together to make a lego like bricks. The MD modules fit one into the other to build without cement or cob mortar. The Mukabumi team and I have been super fortunate to have Mexican bamboo architect, Ricardo, join us for the last weeks. Yesterday, we started innovating and adding the roof to the structure.
Ricardo has been a big help innovating a mechanism to affix the roof on the top of our glass lego building. He came up with a way to bend bamboo slats all the way around the top of the wall’s profile. In his words it makes the structure a contiguous “monolith”. Thus no pillars needed– the structure is its own support!
From the bamboo woven along the top we can then bend-in bamboo slats to curve over and make a dome roof. Kinda like a tent– where the the bent poles make the dome shape. When we’re finished, the roof we’ll be a dome lattice of bamboo slats.
We’re then leveraging the translucence of the structure to grow vines from inside upwards through the bottles. The vines will then cover the lattice and become a green roof. That’s Ani planting vines that will grow up through the MD modules.
