Bamboo!

Houses, schools, installations and electonic devices. Discover bamboo and its thousand possible uses with some of the best articles selected by Domusweb.

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.

– 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

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