BAMBOO ARCHITECTURE
Lectures on ecodeign Dr. Baranyai Bálint Lana Abualfeilat
BUILDING WITH BAMBOO SUSTAINBLE ARCHITECTURE Lectures on Ecodesign Dr. Balint Baranyi Lana Abualfeilat
bamboo is a woodygrassthat is known to be the fastestgrowing plant in theworld.ithas become a popular material choice in architecture and design projects because of its sustainable qualities and hardwearing characteristicsas it has a higher compressive strength than concrete or wood,andrivals the tensility of steel.
INTRODUCTION
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• versatile, strong, renewable and environmentally friendly material.
• A member of the grass family, fastest growing woody plant producing a mature fibre for use within three years.
• traditionally used as a building material and in present times used in low cost housing, building temporary structures and other indigenous architectural expressions.
SUSTAINABILITY
LOCATIONS WHERE BAMBOO GROWS
PROPERTIES
•strong fiber with twice the compressive strength of concrete, and roughly the same strength to weight ratio of steel in tension.
•Abundant, sustainable, and extremely resilient, bamboo has potential in the future to become an ideal replacement in places where steel cannot easily be produced.
•The structural advantages are its strength and light weight whereby properly constructed bamboo buildings are inherently resistant to wind and earthquakes.
The traditional use of bamboo as building and crafts material dates back thousands years ago.Thischapter explains the multitude of applications in which bamboo has been used historically, including the recentriseofthe next generation of industrialized bamboo materials fuelling anewindustryin various bamboo growing countries.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
Well Embedded in Asian Culture and Tradition
Bamboo has been used in Asia for centuries. Because of its excellent mechanical properties, it has been widely adopted for the construction of houses and bridges.
One of the oldest bridges in the world, the Anlan bridge in China. In Asia, stems of bamboo are still being used extensively in scaffolding because of its light weight combined with excellent tensile and bending strength.
Poor Man's Timber in Other Regions
In other places in the world native to bamboo it is valued less.
In Africa and Latin America, because of its ready availability and low cost,
bamboo is often associated with poverty and known as the poor man's timber' Even though in many cases living in a bambc house is safer (earthquakes).
Stigma
Although an excellent material to resist earthqukes, bamboo is often considered an inferior construction material in various parts of theworld.
Steam basket
Histrocally one of the best known applications of bamboo
Bamboo has been used historically for thousands of years in both buildingandcraft projects. This chapterdescribes the numerous ways that bamboo has been utilized historically, including the current emergenceofthe nextgenerationof industrialized bamboomaterials thatareignitinga new industry in various nations that produce bamboo.
BAMBOO NOWADAYS
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Vo Trang Nghia Architeds
is founded by Vo Trong Nghia. Nghia has developed sustainable architectural design by integrating inexpensive, local materials and traditional sails with contemporay aesthetics and modem methodologies.
Vo Trong Nghial Roc Van Restaurant and other bamboo projects
Bamboo has a wide range of uses and but the research here was focused on its ability to be used as the main design and construction. There are several building around the world that are almost entirely of bamboo and millions of people reside in such homes. The firms that have taken bamboo and used it in almost every aspect of its design is IBUKU, the architect Simon Velez and VO ton nights Architects
Full Bamboo Construction
Bamboo raw materials can be processed in various manual and industrial manners to create different materials to be applied to different structures. These different processing technologies will be shown.
BAMBOO TECHNOLOGY
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CONCLUSION
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The use of bamboo as a building material in organic shaped buildings has shown incredible potential because of the nature and properties of bamboo.
Organic shaped buildings are typically built using a form active structure system or a semiform active structure system, though a nonform active structure system, i.e. trusses.
There are several methods for bending or curving bamboo into the desired shape, including hot bending and cold bending. Curvature shape can be generated by connected natural curve bamboo in addition to hot and cold bending.
Aside from understanding the nature and properties of bamboo, knowledge of the structure system and bending method is required, as is knowledge of the joinery system.
