After having finished school and social service, Jörg Stamm began his apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker. In the same time he learned to speak spanish and by this he built the basis for his aim: to work in the development aid in south america. As a joiner he was very fascinated of stairs, houses, boats and bridges for years and so he worked in several wooden construction firms, too. His first project in the development aid was a biogas facility in a village in Ecuador. Not until Columbia he learned about bamboo and really to appreciate it. He already used it as boardings for concrete buildings - a true alternative to cutting down precious tropic trees in the rain forest.After this first contact with this underestimated material he recognized its potential and it drew him in its ban.