CAMBOO
Aiming to showcase the incredible properties of bamboo, Italian design studio Luca Poian Forms created Camboo, a proposal for a centrepiece pavilion to be located in Freedom Park in the capital of Phnom Penh, for the Building Trust’s International Bamboo Festival
“Our proposal utilizes mathematical concepts to express the tectonic qualities of bamboo gridshell structures. Inspired by Frei Otto’s soap film experiments with minimal surfaces as well as Felix Candela’s works with complementary hypar shell structures, our design explores innovative uses of bamboo by understanding its mechanical and structural properties, and modulating the material to conform to the geometry of an Enneper minimal surface to produce a self-supported structural system.” – Luca Poian”
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Image credits – LUCA POIAN FORMS
Camboo Pavilion is a project of IaaC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed at the
Master in Advanced Architecture in 2018/19 by:
Student: Akshay Kumar Gopinath
Faculty: Rodrigo Aguirre, David Andres Leon
Assistant: Daniil Koshelyuk