Project name: Bamboo Dome
Supervisors: Professor Yiqian Yuan and Professor Yike Hu Team: Xuerui Wang, Yining Bei, Chang Wang, Zhi "Albert" Li, Yining Cong, Jian Deng, Keyan Tang, Xu Wang, Erke Zhang, Jinze Wu, Jinwen Liu, Huiyin Hu, Xuefeng Jiang, Zhilei Xu, Shihang Yan
Award: Third Prize of 2017 National Universities Bamboo Design and Construction Competition
Introduction
The Bamboo Dome is a pavilion located in Anji County, Zhejiang Province, China. It was submitted to represent the School of Architecture of Tianjin University in the 2017 National Universities Bamboo Design and Construction Competition, where it was selected as one of twenty final projects to be constructed. The competition was organized by the Chinese government to promote innovative and experimental green construction practices through an engagement with sustainable materials and local building techniques. The competition stipulated that all competition entries utilize bamboo as the major building material. Finally, our design work, Bamboo Dome, won the third prize in the competition.
Bamboo Dome was designed using locally grown and produced materials, such as bamboo. By combining advanced form-finding design techniques with highly skilled bamboo craftsmanship, we achieved a novel and attractive shell structure. This design values the relationship between humans and nature, creating a "Dome" that fosters spatial symbiosis. It allows people who move through it to experience the rich bidirectional spatial variations brought about by horizontal segmentation and height differences, as well as the spatial continuity provided by being enclosed within the same hexagonal interface, blurring boundaries, and achieving true integration. Specifically, the design of the Bamboo Dome is based on a hexagonal triangular network plane. It employs the Kangaroo dynamics simulation software for mechanical form-finding by determining the support points of the entire construction, assigning the magnitude of load forces, and the adaptability coefficients of the members to ensure a structure that is almost exclusively under compression without bending, thereby guaranteeing the overall mechanical rationality and feasibility.
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