The little house in the jungle

This house is going up in a small village in the heart of the Vietnamese countryside, 20 or 30 kilometres inland from the port of Da Nang. It is a simple structure – all building materials are taken from the nearby jungle.

If you can handle an axe and a saw, you don’t need so many nails. And the only roof tiles are to be found in towns, or on pagodas. In the jungle, the builders use other materials.

The only items needed to keep the burning sun and violent monsoons away from the Vietnamese living-room are bamboo, palm leaves and reeds. Other materials are needed in Sweden during the winter.