{"id":31003,"date":"2015-12-10T07:35:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T06:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=31003"},"modified":"2015-12-09T17:41:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T16:41:54","slug":"vo-trong-nghia-impresses-with-beautiful-bamboo-pavilions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/vo-trong-nghia-impresses-with-beautiful-bamboo-pavilions\/","title":{"rendered":"Vo Trong Nghia impresses with beautiful bamboo pavilions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Projects like the Blooming Bamboo and Bamboo Micro House prove that bamboo can be a very useful building material. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/778269\/diamond-island-community-center-vo-trong-nghia-architects\" target=\"_blank\">Diamond Island Community Center<\/a> by Vietnam&#8217;s Vo Trong Nghia Architects offers a reminder that in the right hands it can be beautiful, too.<\/p>\n<p>Located on a small island on the Saigon River in Ho Chi Minh City, the Diamond Island Community Center project serves a group of condos, and comprises two large domes and six smaller pavilions. One structure is a reception while the rest are used for parties and conferences and the like. They will be outfitted as restaurants in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The two large pavilions comprise intricately woven bamboo structures rising to a height of 12.5 m (41 ft) and 24 m (78.7 ft) in diameter. Drawing inspiration from traditional Vietnamese bamboo baskets used to carry fowl, the double-layered dome structures were woven on-site and are topped by an outer layer of thatching, which provides protection from sun and rain. The smaller pavilions were constructed using 12 prefabricated modules.<\/p>\n<p>Vo Trong Nghia \u2013 the firm also responsible for the sub-US$4,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/s-house-prototype-vo-trong-nghia\/40211\/\" target=\"_blank\">S House<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/house-for-trees-vo-trong-nghia-architects\/32641\/\" target=\"_blank\">House for Trees<\/a> projects \u2013 reports that the oculus provides ample natural lighting during daylight hours, and that it helps to keep the interior cool by allowing rising hot air to escape.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite the application of several traditional construction methods, the project&#8217;s aim is not to reproduce the vernacular, but to create sustainable architecture suited to the present,&#8221; says Vo Trong Nghia. &#8220;In order to do this, systematization of production and construction of bamboo architecture is essential and, as a result, the project is a fusion of traditional folk art and contemporary architecture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Diamond Island Community Center project was completed earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Projects like the Blooming Bamboo and Bamboo Micro House prove that bamboo can be a very useful building material. The Diamond Island Community Center by Vietnam&#8217;s Vo Trong Nghia Architects offers a reminder that in the right hands it can be beautiful, too. Located on a small island on the Saigon River in Ho Chi [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[11488],"class_list":["post-31003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-vo-trong-nghia-architects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31003"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=31003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}