Bamboo Design

Kecho lab
17th March 2020 8:45 GMT

Overview
Harvesting & Treatment
Bamboo Design
Structural Systems
Model Making
Bamboo Carpentry
Bamboo Construction

Chuong village

Artisan Le Van Tuy
Artisan Le Van Tuy

Bamboo Design & Construction Workshops

Kecho lab offers a wide range of workshops, inspired by the crafts of the villages around Hanoi. These crafts involve natural materials such as bamboo, wood, clay etc. By doing the workshop, we hope to increase awareness of these crafts (some crafts are already in the verge of disaapearing), thus help to sustaining thosee communities and at the same time provide new skills for the participants.

The Bamboo Design and Construction Workshops aim to provide useful information of bamboo resources and potentialities to participants, and equip them with necessary skills in bamboo design, modeling and construction with bamboo and the related materials.

Past workshops include making bamboo chairs and traditional post-beam connections, with the participation of artisans from Phu Tho and Bac Giang provinces.

Material selection

Weaving technique

Instruction

bamboo shelves

bamboo weaving

  • Example of a 1:1 scale mock-up session

Timeline
Design
Design development: diagram, structure, envelope etc.
– Design a bamboo project (a weekend pod, etc.)
– Site analysis
– Design concept and development (diagram, structure, envelope etc.)
Design Development and Presentation
– Traditional bamboo connections
– Bamboo connections and integration of various materials (concrete-bamboo, bamboo-wood, bamboo-steel etc.)
Extra design
Digital modeling of contemporary bamboo structures
– Bamboo and parametricism
– Using digital tool to model and ducument a project
– Experiment with parametric design
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Extra design
Digital modeling of contemporary bamboo structures
Bamboo and parametricism
Using digital tool to model and ducument a project
Bamboo projects can be modeled with programs like Rhino, in creating 2D and 3D geometries, transforming them to suit one’s concept, as well as annotating and documenting one’s project. 
Experiment with parametric design
Appeared in Kecho Journal, 321 March 2020
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