**2.2. Research design**

This present study is an experimental one with the treatment by subject design. This method was chosen in order to be able to analyze the four factors of life quality, such as safety, thermal comfort, subjective comfort, and the life satisfaction of the user, after the simple houses with the bamboo reinforced concrete structure were constructed.

**Figure 1.** The brick masonry compressive strength test.

**2.3. The house construction**

wisdom‐based people's participation.

social conflict, and so forth.

**2.** Priority is given to the simple technology

**5.** No environmental degradation takes place.

ciples into consideration:

The diagram of the house construction to which the six criteria of the appropriate technology with the systemic, holistic, interdisciplinary and participatory (SHIP) approach is applied can be described as follows (**Figure 5**) [23]. Such a house construction gives emphasis on the local

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The simple house construction using the people's participatory approach can definitely and

**1.** Promoting job opportunities: opportunities are made available for people to participate in developing their economy justly and equally, meaning that poverty can be reduced. **2.** Community empowerment: the quality of human resources becomes improved, meaning

**3.** Capacity building: the poor people can increase their income by improving their health, education, skill, technology, and information using the on the job training (OJT) method. **4.** Social protection: the poor people become protected and feel safe from the natural disaster,

The simple house construction using the participatory approach takes the following prin‐

**4.** Technologically, people are made to improve their technical and administrative expertise.

**Figure 5.** Diagram of the house construction using the participatory approach [23]. Note: OJT = on the job training.

gradually improve the people's capacity due to the following reasons:

that people can have access to and participate in the decision making.

**1.** The top‐down way of thinking changes into the bottom‐up way of thinking

**3.** The user is made to have the sense of belonging and maintaining

**Figure 2.** Standard machine used to test the bamboo tensile strength [22].

**Figure 3.** The bamboo reinforced concrete beam assembled was 120 mm × 250 mm. The reinforcement area were 400 and 1200 mm2 [22].

**Figure 4.** The loading test of concrete beam which 120 mm × 250 mm with the reinforcement area were 400 and 1200 mm2 [22].
