This low-cost bamboo home can be built in just a few days - no professional builders required

Onnis Luque

Building a traditional home can take anywhere from a few weeks to months, depending on the size and specifications.

But in recent years, architects have increasingly looked to prefabricated construction, in which parts are built off-site and assembled on-site, making the process much quicker, less wasteful, and often cheaper.

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Mexican studio Comunal Taller de Arquitectura designed a prefab home that can go up in less than a week.

The firm built a prototype of the house in a mountain town outside Puebla, Mexico. The structure is the second iteration of a similar home the architects designed in 2013. In both instances, they worked alongside locals, who can now easily replicate the house in the future.

Take a look below.