Potential uses of bamboo in airshafts

There are many obvious benefits of installing bamboo groves in airshaft spaces. These hardy tree weeds are beautiful, they provide excellent air remediation, they grow extremely fast, they can withstand the cold winter, and they can grow up to 75feet. They can also be harvested and used as building material, food, and even water filtration.

Aside from these well-documented benefits which I will describe more in-depth in relation to this airshaft project, I think bamboo holds a lot of promise in other ways that could be implemented in modular ways:

a) Directing Light
Revisiting Solatube’s manipulation of light as well as fiber optic cabling, I wonder if bamboo wouldn’t be a good encasing for piping light.


b) Directing Water
Because of its unique structural properties, bamboo could be used as a way of collecting and directing rain water.

c) Live scaffolding
Bamboo is notoriously strong and is oft used as scaffolding for building construction. I’m really curious to see if it could be used as a living scaffolding on which a light-weight vertical garden can grow.

And did I mention they’re beautiful?