Modal Making Week

Inspiration from Vietnam's Bamboo Architecture

The modal below explains the understanding of the ability of the bamboo as an alternative building material.

Bamboo has offer a rapidly renewable resource. It's panelling adds beauty and flare to shelter; thus bamboo panels can be placed around posts, ceilings, walls and more.

Varied spacing and thickness of the bamboo canes creating the walls of the house, each defining a different level of fluidity from one space to the next.

Dappled light penetrates between the thin stalks, as though the shelter were built from the forests; creating a frame of nature.

Bamboo shows on light and natural materials to get a new kind of transparency, blurring the delineation of the building's enclosure.

The structure built out of holes, creating a matrix of thin travertine plates that creates a porous skin, allowing wind and light to penetrate.