Bamboo architecture 2

One year later he set up a prototype of a 'low-cost-house', which could be
built by the inhabitants.
The building is extremely resistant to earthquakes and is based on bambuco
and loam. It has 60 square meters divided on two floors and the value in
Columbia is about 5000$.
Most of his buildings served to create a good image of bambu even in
higher social class of Columbia. This may be the way to integrate and
establish bamboo next to concrete, steel, wood and stone as a full building
material.

Shoei Yoh was born in 1940 in Kumamoto-City/Japan.1970 he founded his
office 'ShoeiYohArchitects' .In his long career he won many architecture
prizes and at this time he teaches at the 'Graduate School of Keio
University'.
In two projects he used that as main static structure. He also designed
a geodetic cupola [1989].
He also attended with 'grating- shell construction' .In Chikuho-Fukuoka he
was inspired by the local artisans.

The "Festival of Vision" in summer 2000 connects the cities Berlin and Hong
Kong, while both are in a time of change and reorientation. The 'House of the
Cultures of the World' demonstrates in this context the important attitude to
contemporary art made in Hong Kong.
In this context the pavilion of the architect Rocco Yim from Hong Kong was
distinguished in front of the 'House of the Cultures of the World' in a lake.
it on the one hand has an essential meaning for his static structure
for high buildings, on the other hand for temporary stages or Chinese
festivals.

Michael McDonough is an architect and furniture designer, who discovered
bamboo some years ago. Since that time he attended with the possibilities
of this material.

After some furniture designs he wanted to realize his project 'Mendocino
high-tech Bamboo Bridge' in 2000 . This should be a demonstration of the
constructive qualities of material. This framework construction is able to
strain over 33 meters and is also able to compensate more than 60 times of
its own weight. The static structure is based on the principle of 'tensegrity',
which was coined by Buckminster Fuller and Robert Le Ricolais.
"The word 'tensegrity' is an invention: a contraction of 'tensional integrity.'
Tensegrity describes a structural-relationship principle in which structural
shape is guaranteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous,
tensional behaviors of the system and not by the discontinuous and
exclusively local compressional member behaviors. Tensegrity provides the
ability to yield increasingly without ultimately breaking or coming asunder."
( "Synergetics", by R. Buckminster Fuller )