Bamboo is a readily available resource. It’s renewable and recyclable, vernacular and contemporary. Bamboo is frequently used for residences and public buildings in South-East Asia and South America, but it can also be a material for European designers to deal with. You can find it in social and participatory projects and in installations with a strong visual appeal. Find here the staff’s selection.
Bamboo!
Houses, schools, installations and electonic devices. Discover bamboo and its thousand possible uses with some of the best articles selected by Domusweb.
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- 09 September 2017
– This house in Mexico by Comunal: Taller de Arquitectura features a modular and prefabricated building system, based on panels made with bamboo oldhamii.
– Designed by studio 1+1>2 in Vietnam, Lung Luong elementary school appears like a fresh jungle flower in lively colors and with a contemporary design language.
– Gallery FUMI showed a Studio Glithero’s furniture project started in 2009 that experiments with rods, bamboo sticks, bronze and gum-paper.
– Designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects in Sydney, Green Ladder is combination of bamboo ladders and acts as a physical link connecting visitors and nature.
– The Terra Cotta Studio is a brick and bamboo building designed by Tropical Space in Ho-Chi Minh City, giving to a Vietnamese artist a dedicated place for creating clay sculptures and pottery.
– Chiangmai Life Architect’s Bamboo Sports Hall in Chiang Mai, Thailand, combines modern organic design, 21st century engineering and a natural material – bamboo.
– Winner of the Grand Prix of the Jury at Design Parade 10, French designer Samy Rio presents two series of prototypes that use bamboo as a tubular alternative.
– The Colombian architecture office Ruta 4 designed Casa Ensamble Chacarrá, developing an artistic and pedagogic process in the community of Plumón alto and using local materials.
– Combining up-to-date engineering knowledge with clean organic designs Chiangmai Life Construction created a tropical sanctuary with modern comfort.
– Designed by architect Nick Leith-Smith in a lively district of Kuala Lumpur, this project features a forest of bamboo as the central motif for the interior space.
Top: 1+1>2, Jungle Flower, Lung Luong village, Vietnam, 2016