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Thursday, September 15, 2022
'lantern' explores and elevates the use of bamboo in architecture
www.designboom.com: Architects Olivier Ottevaere and Donn Holohan design a a temporary outdoor theater dubbed ‘ Lantern’ as part of a national bamboo building competition held in Anji, China.
Architecture and engineering as art is always so interesting to me. The intersection of design and engineering is visually satisfying in a way that just clicks for me. And seeing the sharp angle holding up the sheer curves of the fabric pulled along the top has such nice contrast. I would love the chance to take photos of this thing myself. Growing up, I had a lot of rampant bamboo in my backyard and I always loved building tents and archways out of it. Bamboo is such an interesting companion material to wood and I have always wanted to use it in a theatrical application, even if it's just as set decoration.
Damn it, I just started flipping through the photos and saw a 3d model of it. If you like the radial patterns of these images then you should check out a kind of art known as sacred geometry. The 3d stuff in that area is really neat.
I believe bamboo should be used more often. It grows remarkable quickly and is a very strong, workable material. Unfortunately, since it is grown and not made, there is no real way of ensuring a specific strength specification, and thus makes it difficult to use as an engineered material. Regardless, I still think it would absolutely be worth the time and money to figure out a way to either engineer bamboo, or find ways to make engineered products with bamboo, as it is an excellent, widely available material. The structure presented in the article is such a cool, visually pleasing piece. Something about the combination of curves and sharp angles just works for me. I would be interesting in seeing the process of how it was built, how the various pieces were bent into their exact shapes, and how the overall structure was assembled. I am also curious as to where all of the lights are hidden – I can easily see the ones that rest in the foundational columns but in the picture where the structure is lit up it really looks like there much be more.
Honestly look at all of those beautiful things they made out of bamboo. And that whole thing about how the tools warp and change too so working with these tools they have to have a deep relationship and understanding of their craft and material. This is so cool. I don't know and the way the subtitle for each of the pictures describes the photo and makes it clear what they were going for, it's just beautiful. And I agree with Dean and Martin, there's so much value in bamboo either structurally or environmentally that I don't see why it's not incorporated into our every day lives as often as it should be. Granted, this may be a cultural thing haha. Overall, I think I'm taking away a lot of love and respect for people who work with material like that and create art that moves people in more ways than one.
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Architecture and engineering as art is always so interesting to me. The intersection of design and engineering is visually satisfying in a way that just clicks for me. And seeing the sharp angle holding up the sheer curves of the fabric pulled along the top has such nice contrast. I would love the chance to take photos of this thing myself. Growing up, I had a lot of rampant bamboo in my backyard and I always loved building tents and archways out of it. Bamboo is such an interesting companion material to wood and I have always wanted to use it in a theatrical application, even if it's just as set decoration.
Damn it, I just started flipping through the photos and saw a 3d model of it. If you like the radial patterns of these images then you should check out a kind of art known as sacred geometry. The 3d stuff in that area is really neat.
I believe bamboo should be used more often. It grows remarkable quickly and is a very strong, workable material. Unfortunately, since it is grown and not made, there is no real way of ensuring a specific strength specification, and thus makes it difficult to use as an engineered material. Regardless, I still think it would absolutely be worth the time and money to figure out a way to either engineer bamboo, or find ways to make engineered products with bamboo, as it is an excellent, widely available material. The structure presented in the article is such a cool, visually pleasing piece. Something about the combination of curves and sharp angles just works for me. I would be interesting in seeing the process of how it was built, how the various pieces were bent into their exact shapes, and how the overall structure was assembled. I am also curious as to where all of the lights are hidden – I can easily see the ones that rest in the foundational columns but in the picture where the structure is lit up it really looks like there much be more.
Honestly look at all of those beautiful things they made out of bamboo. And that whole thing about how the tools warp and change too so working with these tools they have to have a deep relationship and understanding of their craft and material. This is so cool. I don't know and the way the subtitle for each of the pictures describes the photo and makes it clear what they were going for, it's just beautiful. And I agree with Dean and Martin, there's so much value in bamboo either structurally or environmentally that I don't see why it's not incorporated into our every day lives as often as it should be. Granted, this may be a cultural thing haha. Overall, I think I'm taking away a lot of love and respect for people who work with material like that and create art that moves people in more ways than one.
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