Bamboo is a natural, local, renewable and abundant lignocellulosic material, important to mitigate greenhouse gases emissions. It is characterized by the multidimensional functionally graded structure and for its long fiber reinforced porous matrix. Such configurations provide the combination of low density and high mechanical properties, which are compatible with the ones of usual construction materials. Laminated bamboo composites are currently produced aiming either high productivity and complex geometry with low performance, or simple geometry for structural purposes with a very low productivity. This work proposes a protocol to combine productivity, possibility of complex geometry and high performance, by applying laminae obtained from different parts of the culm wall, regarding to the radial axis, according to the structural requirements. New configurations for standard mechanical test methods were proposed for material s compliance checking and both for laminae and laminates characterization. In parallel, aiming to quantify and morphologically characterize, mainly the bamboo porosity variation, several microstructural analyzes have been used. The results were compared with the ones obtained on the experimental mechanical characterization protocol. A simplified method to quantify bamboo porosity based on humidity variation tests has been developed and validated by the comparison with digital image processing. It has been observed that bamboo s porous volume fraction is functionally graded and has influence on the material s density as long as on its mechanical properties. The proposed laminate configuratons were analyzed on a commercial Finite Element Method software.