In Bamboo is a rural construction project we did in Daoming Town, Sichuan Province at the beginning of 2017. Daoming Town is well known for its enduring tradition of bamboo-weaving. In Daoming, the practice of weaving is more than a rural industry, it is an integral part of the way families in the town spend time together and how neighbors visit with each another. The traditional Daoming Bamboo-Weaving craft is a living cultural heritage with much in store to offer contemporary ways of living and making.
The project we completed is a multi-functional rural community cultural center with provisions for exhibitions, hosting conferences, community gathering, as well as dining and recreation. It integrates the site with the surrounding villages and with the natural ecology. The project also explores the interaction of the city with new rural construction. It practices the integration of new construction technology with local craft. The project integrates traditional construction techniques with prefabricated industrialization.
The gestural interweaving roof is a construction of many prefabricated parts delivered to the site ready for quick assembly. The Mobius-shaped roof is supported by a 70% light prefabricated steel frame and finished with traditional ceramic tiles. The high efficiency afforded by pre-fabricating components made the 52-day construction period of this complex geometry possible.
The relationships of inside & outside, bamboo & tile and new & old are all able to be experienced in the “infinite(∞)shape” of the roof. The new definition offered for traditional paradigms and the rethinking of rural & urban issues provide a lens for thinking about the meaning of architecture in the present time.
The first time we came to the Chongzhou area, our client introduced us to the surroundings with a poem by the Song Dynasty poet Lu You. After hearing this poem, we discovered one way to truly understand the depth of this poem was to be in Chongzhou and see this site. Seeing the landscape before us after hearing the poem enabled our concept for the project to begin to take shape.
Through the lens of Lou You’s poem we started to see the site in richer ways as it related to the village life and the countryside surrounding it. The site crosses a narrow stream. And then again, the site crosses a different stream before beginning its march up the mountain. A forest plain stretches out; bamboo grows thickly. From the towering trees one can tell the long history of the first farmer’s home. “Building can only try to start a dialogue with earth, while plants belong to the earth. We were trying our best to maintain everything, and keep the most stay still,” -principle architect Philip F. Yuan.
In Bamboo is a rural construction project we did in Daoming Town, Sichuan Province at the beginning of 2017. Daoming Town is well known for its enduring tradition of bamboo-weaving. In Daoming, the practice of weaving is more than a rural industry, it is an integral part of the way families in the town spend time together and how neighbors visit with each another. The traditional Daoming Bamboo-Weaving craft is a living cultural heritage with much in store to offer contemporary ways of living and making.
The project we completed is a multi-functional rural community cultural center with provisions for exhibitions, hosting conferences, community gathering, as well as dining and recreation. It integrates the site with the surrounding villages and with the natural ecology. The project also explores the interaction of the city with new rural construction. It practices the integration of new construction technology with local craft. The project integrates traditional construction techniques with prefabricated industrialization.
The gestural interweaving roof is a construction of many prefabricated parts delivered to the site ready for quick assembly. The Mobius-shaped roof is supported by a 70% light prefabricated steel frame and finished with traditional ceramic tiles. The high efficiency afforded by pre-fabricating components made the 52-day construction period of this complex geometry possible.
The relationships of inside & outside, bamboo & tile and new & old are all able to be experienced in the “infinite(∞)shape” of the roof. The new definition offered for traditional paradigms and the rethinking of rural & urban issues provide a lens for thinking about the meaning of architecture in the present time.
The first time we came to the Chongzhou area, our client introduced us to the surroundings with a poem by the Song Dynasty poet Lu You. After hearing this poem, we discovered one way to truly understand the depth of this poem was to be in Chongzhou and see this site. Seeing the landscape before us after hearing the poem enabled our concept for the project to begin to take shape.
Through the lens of Lou You’s poem we started to see the site in richer ways as it related to the village life and the countryside surrounding it. The site crosses a narrow stream. And then again, the site crosses a different stream before beginning its march up the mountain. A forest plain stretches out; bamboo grows thickly. From the towering trees one can tell the long history of the first farmer’s home. “Building can only try to start a dialogue with earth, while plants belong to the earth. We were trying our best to maintain everything, and keep the most stay still,” -principle architect Philip F. Yuan.
In Bamboo is a rural construction project we did in Daoming Town, Sichuan Province at the beginning of 2017. Daoming Town is well known for its enduring tradition of bamboo-weaving. In Daoming, the practice of weaving is more than a rural industry, it is an integral part of the way families in the town spend time together and how neighbors visit with each another. The traditional Daoming Bamboo-Weaving craft is a living cultural heritage with much in store to offer contemporary ways of living and making.
The project we completed is a multi-functional rural community cultural center with provisions for exhibitions, hosting conferences, community gathering, as well as dining and recreation. It integrates the site with the surrounding villages and with the natural ecology. The project also explores the interaction of the city with new rural construction. It practices the integration of new construction technology with local craft. The project integrates traditional construction techniques with prefabricated industrialization.
The gestural interweaving roof is a construction of many prefabricated parts delivered to the site ready for quick assembly. The Mobius-shaped roof is supported by a 70% light prefabricated steel frame and finished with traditional ceramic tiles. The high efficiency afforded by pre-fabricating components made the 52-day construction period of this complex geometry possible.
The relationships of inside & outside, bamboo & tile and new & old are all able to be experienced in the “infinite(∞)shape” of the roof. The new definition offered for traditional paradigms and the rethinking of rural & urban issues provide a lens for thinking about the meaning of architecture in the present time.
The first time we came to the Chongzhou area, our client introduced us to the surroundings with a poem by the Song Dynasty poet Lu You. After hearing this poem, we discovered one way to truly understand the depth of this poem was to be in Chongzhou and see this site. Seeing the landscape before us after hearing the poem enabled our concept for the project to begin to take shape.
Through the lens of Lou You’s poem we started to see the site in richer ways as it related to the village life and the countryside surrounding it. The site crosses a narrow stream. And then again, the site crosses a different stream before beginning its march up the mountain. A forest plain stretches out; bamboo grows thickly. From the towering trees one can tell the long history of the first farmer’s home. “Building can only try to start a dialogue with earth, while plants belong to the earth. We were trying our best to maintain everything, and keep the most stay still,” -principle architect Philip F. Yuan.