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(1 Nov 2011) Bali, Indonesia, recent 1. Pan right from road to bamboo construction that will be function as chocolate factory. 2. Wide shot of bamboo in front of building. 3.Various close up of bamboo. 4.Wide of worker carrying bamboo pole into construction. 5.Close up of worker cleaning wall made of bamboo. 6.Pan left interior of factory. 7.Set up shot of Frederick Schilling inside bamboo structure. 8.SOUNDBITE: (English) Frederick Schilling, Co-owner of Big Tree Farms. "Bamboo's definitely regards as one of the most sustainable building material in the world, it grows very quickly, it is very, very strong, as a bonus it is also very very beautiful to work with. What we've done here is creating this very, very practical building using bamboo with obviously sustainability as a core purpose but at the same time we were also able to create a very esthetically beautiful building using bamboo". 9.Close up of a cut bamboo pole being crafted. 10. Wide of same. 11. Wide of finished bamboo chocolate factory miniature. Bali, Indonesia, 10 October 2011 12. pan right exterior of Green School. 13. wide exterior of Grade 5 class room. 14. wide interior of class room. 15. medium of desk and chair made of bamboo. 16. tilt down interior of Green School. 17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ben MacRory, Head of Communication Green School. " In this part of the world we are lucky enough to obviously be in a place with the climate where we could build open air structures, with bamboo. You couldn't build this kind of building in many parts of the world, you couldn't do it in downtown Jakarta because the air quality issues that you have. I always joke that our bigger picture goal here is to spread gospel bamboo and we got a lot of visitors who come here, I call them the bamboo junkies, who come to pay homage to this mothership here, this building Hardy's school, which is maybe the largest bamboo building in asia, maybe the largest bamboo building in the world, probably the most beautiful bamboo structure anywhere." 18. Various of pupils playing 19. Wide of building in Green Village 20. Tilt down bamboo interior of villa in Green Village. 21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elora Hardy, Creative Director Green Village. "We're really comfortable in our culture and in architecture with straight lines, and bamboo is not a straight line. So that in itself is a huge shift in thinking. How to deal with this curve. This pole here started three floors below us, so three floors below us, it's attached to the earth. And in the architecture plans and in reconstruction process we have to really keep in mind where it's going to end up at the top. And it's not a straight line. So that just simple fact, makes the on site supervision, and the problem solving, all of that, all of that just become infinitely more complicated because it is not a straight line." 22. Pan left from bamboo stairs to bamboo supported couch. 23. Close up bamboo ornaments attached to the wall. 24. Pan left bedroom 25. Close up bamboo ornament 26. Tilt up from bamboo railing on balcony to bamboo plants. LEADIN The world's largest bamboo commercial structure is taking shape in Bali. Off a beaten track, past a towering banyan tree and next to an ancient Hindu temple, the building will eventually house a chocolate factory. STORYLINE: On the outskirt of this village in Central Bali, the three-story, 23,000-sq.-foot building _ made from more than 3,000 long, flexible poles _ is crowned with a graceful, sloped ceiling nearly 50 feet high. Bali is leading the charge, attracting carpenters, architects and designers from across the globe to build everything from a schools to luxury villas. wacky You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/61ea524417172272fcc7605f8025b192 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork