as well as the teepee style frame we've made, it would be possible to start making frames like this with larger/stronger canes, using knots to tie them together:

note how simple it is to add windows to the frame as well - could be interesting to play around with this.
also the thicker the cane gets the more we can look into creating joins by splitting/cutting the ends - we can still use string to tie them together but it could make heavier cane much sturdier - here are some simple joins used for timber, but i think the same can be applied to bamboo or rounded wood.
Half Lap Joint

Through Tenon Joint

Blind Mortis and Tenon Joint

And here's a diagram of many different joins, most of which are more complicated than we could probably achieve, but it's a very nice diagram with its isometric shapes:

pretty.
also, not to get too ahead of ourselves but I can't help it. Here's an incredible photo from Venice Beach, Santa Monica. Don't know anything about it other than that, not sure who the architect is but it has a shanty town look about it, albeit a very polished shanty town. Love how all the buildings slot together:

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