An astonishing structure in which three cones flow together into one roof that protects a school building made of bamboo. It is ambitious and the materials are entirely renewable.
THE BAMBOO SCHOOL OF BALI
un film de Richard Copans - ArchitectureAn astonishing structure in which three cones flow together into one roof that protects a school building made of bamboo. It is ambitious and the materials are entirely renewable.
It’s a school unlike any other, a building made entirely of bamboo on the Indonesian island of Bali, an ambitious project initiated by an American expatriate couple, John and Cynthia Hardy. They joined forces with a team of architects and artists in 2006 to build a school where everything would be invented from scratch: the educational approach, a green business model to protect the environment, and a new form of single-material architecture; a triple challenge.
Their first decision was to build the whole thing from bamboo, a traditional construction material in Bali, nicknamed “vegetal steel”.
The building consists of three juxtaposed roof cones bound together in one single fluid movement; “like a snail”, to use the designers’ description. The roof sections roll and unfurl, both accentuating the building’s unity and imbuing it with perpetual motion. They were inspired, paradoxically, by a Leonard da Vinci drawing.
Without perimeter or interior walls, the ventilation is completely natural, and the entire structure visible. Some bamboo stems rise vertically, some at oblique angles, but all are arranged symmetrically to support the balanced, sloping roofs. Several load-bearing structures intertwine, like those supporting the huge sections of roof and the upper storeys. It is a simple display of bamboo’s many qualities, and the columns range from 6 to 25 metres long. It’s an incredible sensation for the eye to be able to roam freely through the whole building and see behind this single material such an astonishing variety of views.
This is the largest of sixty buildings on campus and has become a benchmark for people wishing to create contemporary architecture using renewable materials.
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- Buy the DVD
- https://boutique.arte.tv/detail/architectures_integrale_coffret_10_dvd
- Directed by
- Richard Copans
- Collection
- Architectures
- Year
- 2016
- Genre
- Architecture
- With
- Agence IBUKU
- Editing
- Nicolas Milteau
- Author
- Richard Copans
- Photography
- Richard Copans
- Mixage
- Sylvain Copans
- Executive producer
- Clémentine Noël
- Broadcaster
- Arte France
- Partners
- Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée & Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication DGP
- Format
- HDCAM
- Manager of production
- Clémentine Noël
- Langue
- Français & Anglais
- Available version
- Français & Anglais
- Length
- 26’
- ISAN
- 0000-0001-9CE2-0049-7-0000-0000-G
- Distributor
- Arte France Distribution
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