Structural bamboo use in El Salvador: the right to a sustainable territory

Abstract

The paper presents a tool of Sustainable Territorial Management that, in our opinion, can promote the development in El Salvador in the social, productive, economic, and environmental aspects. The theme seeks to promote the quality and relevance of research in a practical and experimental approach, based on a proposal of design and building of an Agroecological and Bamboo School, so that from this project this initiative can be replicated throughout El Salvador and Central America. The School will have a workshop for the development of products and materials made of bamboo. The idea is that this specialized school will serve as an Education Center for agroecology and its derivatives, as well as the utilitarian production of “Asper” or “Guadua” type bamboo, replicating it throughout the territory in a plan for planting, care and industrial production. The idea considers principles and technical criteria on ecological architecture, also venturing into providing solutions to the design of precarious human settlements in El Salvador and the Central American region.