Gener Paduga is from Palawan Island in the western Philippines. He grew up in a bamboo house and has been constructing things with bamboo since he was a kid. As a boy, he liked to make bamboo kites and sarading, a small trap for mangrove crabs...
Gener began making bamboo buildings and furniture in the early 2000s. He specializes in bayog bamboo, a native Palawan species which is especially flexible and strong.