Bamboo as stems have been widely manufactured for composite. However, fiber as the smallest constituent component of bamboo stems supporting the strength and flexibility of the plant has not been widely employed as raw material. These strong and flexible properties, coupled with easy planting treatment and fast harvesting, apparently make bamboo highly potential developed as sustainable raw material for composite. Unfortunately, the current manufacturing process of bamboo for composite by using chemical substances would have ended bamboo up as no longer environmentally friendly. By utilizing lignocellulose content within its fiber, this research studied fabrication of a novel composite boards from bamboo fibers through biologically binding mechanism by using fungal mycelium. Gigantochloa apus bamboo stems are extracted into three types: long fibers, short fibers, and powder. Then, the bamboo fibers are added with water and some additional nutritions then sterilized together. These substrates are then inoculated with mycelium seed of Ganoderma lucidum. The fibers bound together along with the growth of mycelium. The result shows that this board is potential to be used for interior purpose in building especially high rise building with high need of light-weight insulation and partition board and expected to replace the need for building components that have been made from unsustainable raw materials and methods.

This paper reviews studies on sustainable housing criteria based on their implementation. This paper proposes studies on sustainable housing criteria from previous researchers. The analysis of this study was developed by reviewing several studies about sustainable housing criteria in general. Sustainable development has become an important concept to help humans achieve their needs wisely. This concept can be achieved through a decision-making process that integrates and recognizes the existence of environmental, economic, and social problems. The adaptation of the sustainable development concept within the scope of architecture creates an understanding of the existence of sustainable architecture. Sustainable architecture has begun to apply the concept of sustainable development from the small case to the large scale buildings. It can be implemented through the logical use of technology in buildings, energy-saving, creating and using efficient construction, renovation, operation, maintenance, and demolition models, as well as minimizing the negative impact of buildings on the environment. Above all, it is important to keep in mind that the biggest challenges to sustainable development can start from the housing to the larger space. This paper may help readers to identify how sustainable practices on the scale of housing are developed and applied all the implementations through 10 criteria of sustainable housing based on environmental, economic, and social aspects from the previous journals. These 10 criteria also can be used to create a parameter or assessment of sustainable housing as an outline by adjusting the implementation to the prevailing needs in further study.

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Traditional dwellings have undergone constant change in recent decades as a result of modernization. Though the change is physically visible, a theoretically indiscernible tradition is maintained as a way of sustaining social and cultural systems. A hypothetical assumption asserts that a symbolic cultural value, a 'traditional core,' exists as a sustainable system that functions within a modernized structure. This study begins by identifying the traditional core in question and proceeds to investigate its power over contemporary, modernized forms of dwelling. The study's approach takes on the basic theory of physical change and the key ideas of structuralism. The main findings concern these two interrelated aspects, which are the result of a sustainable system, namely the hybrid dwelling, and the authoritative power that social and cultural systems have over house form.

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