Sessie op congres TomorrowBrand2015- Arteveldehogeschool -Bachelor communicatiemanagement

1. BAMBOO & THE BLUE ECONOMY
Principals & Case studies CRU! Architects – Tomorrowbrands 2015
ARCHITECTURE OF THE FUTURE

2. Before going to Blue
What’s wrong with Green?

3. • Energy = ecology?
• Is passive building dangerous and a-social?
• New buildings > 30km from work? PUR isolation = unhealthy ?
• Conventional materials and technologies; contributing to
energy saving and ecology in the 21st Century?
Green
Expensive
Subsidized
Taxes
Cut costs
Shortage of resources
• Clean globalized => not related to local identity-architecture

4. Green
Expensive
Subsidized
Taxes
Cut costs
Shortage of resources
Blue
Innovative
Competitive
Jobs
More Value
Abondance of physical resources
Learning from nature’s principals
Blue in architecture:
systems design (Luigi Bistagnino)
7 streams: Human, Matter, Air, Energy, Light, Water, Sound
Less bad is no good

5. The starbucks example:
problem becomes multiple solutions
Follow nature’s example and realise waste’s potential
Multiple Benefits
Multiple Income Streams

6. • Blue
Innovative
Competitive
Jobs
More Value

7. Vortex; fishing, cooling, puriyfingLearning from nature: biomimicry

8. Biomimicry in architecture

9. Expo Hannover 2000

10. BAMBOO = STEEL OF THE
FUTURE
FOR ARCHITECTURE OF THE
FUTURE

11. Simon Vélez

12. John Hardy

13. Vo Trong Nghia

14. FULL CYCLE
3 - 5 x CO2 (biomass)
Re- vs De-forestation
O2+H2O
Erosion
Sanitation Desertification
Durable economy

15. - North - South
- End of life (eg charcoal)
- Nothing goes to waste (eg biomass)
- No natural enemies in Europe
Bamboo as building material
7x strength equal strength
4 years 15-30 years 1 ton steel=2 ton C0²

16. Community Centre
with class rooms, library, venue, kitchen and toilets
2004 Bamboostic project
Generating a (blue) economy through building with bamboo

17. Used techniques
bamboo, taipa, adobe bricks, green roof, plastic bottle walls,..

23. B²-POD TAIWAN

24. conceptBox-in a box-in a box: no air transport on a ship
Small protected volume – large free living
Foldable design – no assembly-disassembly (skilled labour+time= cost>)
Mechanic- no electric folding = art of the bamboomaster (secret box)
Early adapters : luxurious for thinkers or frequent travelers in need of a
home – no urban rules because of glorified caravans: a house like a
magic box

27. Termite ventilation by Anders Nyquist
= also biomimicry + windtowers Persia

28. Zebra Colors:
black and white bamboo exterior
Energy: thin film + solarus + water
battery
Double roof principle from vernacular-
adjustable to height and windspeed:
learning from and using of vernac!
Telescopic arms with wheels
Levande filters
Whalepowerfan
Orientation and postion: wet areas last
in winddirection
Glue laminated panels = mussel/clam
– no volatiles/formaldehyde

29. Upscaling to community maker

30. Even post-disaster: assembly/disassembly possible in
later stage (non-luxurious) – also possible = only
shipping joints, bamboo and tools: self help with manual
(a pattern language)

31. Why isn´t bamboo used in Europe
• Lack of knowledge, trust and good examples
image of poor man´s timber – technical solutions not very known
• Lack of good construction codes
Since 2003 international iso-norms for mecanical properties
• Lack of dimensional stability – variable material
Requires originality of the designer, letting go of fixed design
methods and knowledge of common connection techniques

32. Example in Ghent

40. Example being build in Kemzeke

43. Other examples
Houses for expats running a bamboo plantation in Congo

44. Elements to consider building in tropics.

45. Design principles

49. A mosque in bamboo and rammed earth in Morocco

55. City farming in a former gastower in Ghent - Tondeliersite