H&P architects: sustainable bamboo, earth and stone pavilion

Resource: http://www.designboom.com/architecture/hp-architects-sustainable-bamboo-earth-and-stone-pavilion/


The sustainably built art and cultural centre located in Vietnam was designed by H&P Architects encouraging community to engage with education. This pavilion uses local resource such as bamboo, earth and stone with traditional construction method. By using the local materials it has reduced large amount of transportation. Bamboo is well known as rapidly reusable raw material and it also grows quite fast. Its strength and durability is comparable with oak and steel. Also it is water resistant which is appropriate for location like Vietnam that has seasonal monsoon. This building represent the recent approach of searching the benefits of primitive hut. Not only utilizing surrounding environment but also explore the traditional method to be applied in present to create conceivable contemporary design. However using earth wall may be not appropriate for an architecture with humid climate even though it is pavilion.