Coffee table from round bamboo (Gigantochloa scortechinii) / Nurhanisah Salin

Furniture design: Coffee table using Buluh
Semantan (Gigantochloa Scortechinii) as raw
material

In the rapid development of the global economy today, the demand of solid
wood as raw material is increasing in furniture industries. Due to the higher
demand of solid wood. The other resources need to replace the wood as
current material in furniture industries. One the possible solution is by
producing furniture by using Buluh Semantan as the raw material. This is
because comparing with wood, bamboo is the best renewable material, so its
production can be sustained without harming ecology and help our planet
from suffering more injuries, thereby ensuring a good life for our coming
generation. The objective this study is to design the coffee table by using
bamboo as the raw material and still be able to fulfil the customer
requirement.