6 world famous bamboo structures
1. Arc in Green School, Indonesia
Arc in Green School is one of Ibuku’s outstanding works that uses bamboo material to bring impressive views and become a reference for purely lightweight structure in architecture and construction.
Arc in Green School, Indonesia.
Arc is the newest building on the campus of Green School, a world-renowned school in Bali, Indonesia. This school has a 12-year history with breakthrough advantages and broadens horizons. The Arc Project is the latest spotlight aiming to raise the standard for sustainable education around the world.
Arc at Green School is built from a series of intersecting 14m high bamboo arches that extend up to 19m and are connected by anti-elastic mesh panels that bend in opposite directions creating the strength of the material.
Arc is a feat of engineering, the project requiring months of research, development and fine-tuning of tailored details. The result is an incredibly sophisticated design with a unique beauty from bamboo, a testament to Ibuku’s commitment to broadening its horizons in architecture and design.
2. Bamboo Sports Hall, Thailand
This special sports area, named Bamboo Sports Hall, was designed by Chiangmai Life Construction, an architectural firm in Thailand.
The fancy sports area has the look of a modern architecture, inspired by the lotus flower, with the ability to withstand strong earthquakes. Bamboo house construction is very environmentally friendly, saying no to the “carbon footprint”.
Completed in 2017, Bamboo Sports Hall has an undulating shape, reflecting the surrounding hilly terrain. Measuring 782 square meters, the multi-purpose sports area has circular domes that can help with ventilation and natural light.
Bamboo Sports Hall can accommodate about 300 students. This is a place to practice sports such as futsal, basketball, volleyball, badminton, and also a place to organize cultural activities for students. According to the architects, the carbon footprint of Sports Hall is nonexistent, as bamboo is a material that is able to absorb a much higher amount of carbon than the carbon emitted during handling, transportation and construction. Besides, bamboo is also a material to help insulate heat, creating a cool and airy indoor environment all year round.
3. Bamboo Pavilion, Taiwan, China
In Taichung, Taiwan, another bamboo building called Bamboo Pavilion is also making a big splash.
The building is made of indigenous bamboo, with an area of up to 1,570m2. Bamboo Pavilion was built in the center of a large lake with the idea of a seed reaching out, symbolizing hope in the future of mankind. The association of tens of thousands of bamboo slats creates many different visual effects when viewers observe the work from all directions.
4. Hardelot Theatre, France
Hardelot Theater, designed by studio Andrew Todd, is the perfect combination of traditional elements and modern style. The overall structure is reminiscent of Japanese temples and medieval European wooden architecture. This is also the first building in France to use bamboo as a wall cladding material.
5. Rising Canes, China
It is perhaps hard to imagine building a house that could house 20,000 people in the future with only two things: bamboo and rope.
That is the idea of Penda – an architectural firm in China. This unique concept of an eco-friendly living space won 2nd place in the 2016 A’Design Awards.
To build this tree house, the Penda design team will attach bamboo trees together into a block using ropes. For each knot, there will be 8 interwoven bamboos, many such bamboos will form strong pillars that have the function of supporting the whole house.
At each floor, the floor is also assembled with bamboo stalks to form a flat surface that helps people move easily like living in an apartment. Just like that, the floors are superimposed on each other. When it grows taller and has many floors, this tree house will look like an apartment complex with many small apartments for families to live.
In the immediate future, about 20 households can live in the first building, which is expected to be completed in the next few years. By 2023, the company hopes to expand the area of this project up to 1 km2 and be able to accommodate 20,000 people.
5. Vedana Restaurant, Vietnam
“Vedana Restaurant” by Vo Trong Nghia Architects is the only project in Vietnam to win the most prestigious award (Grand Prize) along with the world’s leading famous company, OMA, at the 11th Yuanye Awards.
Vedana is part of the Vedana Resort complex. The building has a roof area of 1051 m2, with the largest roof radius of 18.3 m. The height to the roof top is 15.85 m, marking the tallest building in the series of bamboo house designs by Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Especially, Vedana was built at the edge of Cuc Phuong forest, where mountains and forests are surrounded by dense vegetation.
The restaurant is designed to be the center serving about 1,350 guests of the entire resort as well as events and weddings. Raw materials are mainly made from bamboo – a familiar and typical tree of the Vietnamese countryside. The bamboo structure consists of 36 bamboo frames creating a 3-tiered dome form inspired by traditional architecture.
Vedana restaurant is built on a large man-made lake. This lake plays an important role in regulating the temperature of the whole project in general and the restaurant in particular. Users can feel the space inside and outside the house at the same time, feel the interior space of the bamboo structure as well as the space of mountains, forests and lakes outside.
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