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Location
2 Cubic Meters
Semester 1, 2019
Project Two (Group)
Bamboo Tectonics
In this project, students will be working with bamboos and to understand the characteristics of this special material and how it can be used in their design. Students will be learning about the bamboo life's cycle, joints, joinery and structural quality.
After understanding about the properties of bamboos completely, students will be amalgamating their design intention into their 1:1 structure with anthropometry and ergonomics of a banal activity that is being carried out in daily life. At the end of this project, students will be presenting their 1:1 tectonics to the panel in explaining the key terminologies that have been applied in their structure. Their learning outcome will be relating the idea of design intention in anthropometrics and ergonomics to space and its experiential qualities
Project Brief
Bamboo Tectonics
bamboo
KLAF BambooArk
Exhibition
First and foremost, we were pleased to have our bamboo tectonic structure to be chosen & showcased at APW Bangsar as a part of Kuala Lumpur Architecture Festival (KLAF 2019). We would like to thank our programme director, Ms. Siti Balkish Roslan for guiding us through our semester as well as Taylor's University for giving us the opportunity.
Banal Action:
Leaning
Taking anthropometrics and ergonomics into design consideration while making use of the bamboo's structural properties, this project integrates all the above into a 1:1 scaled structure (2 cubic meters) with bamboo as the main construction material.
Our chosen banal action was leaning and our concept was to create a structure that is able to accommodate multiple leaning postures while showcasing the flexibility and rigidity of bamboo.
Final Boards + Tattoo Stamps
We were required to come up with presentation boards and "tattoo stamps" to present the design of our tectonic structure. Overall it was an incredible experience to see our design materialise through our hard work.
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