Bamboo Weaving Art

From some books and the Internet I have seen during a period of time, it is true that bamboo plays an important role in contemporary Japanese art and product design. I have learned about the techniques as well as the art to make bamboo weaving products to support my design. ————————————————————————– A variety of bamboo weaving pattern The…

Bamboo Sculpture

Madake is large bamboo having thick-walled culms (poles). Bamboo Fibonacci Tunnel by Akio Hizume http://www.starcage.org Kawashima Shigeo’s Ring at the Kennedy Center. Sliced bamboo held together with black cotton twine. textilearts.com See ‘making of’ video: artsedge.kennedy-center.org Universal Circle by Kawashima Shigeo, 2008. Sliced bamboo held together with black cotton twine. http://www.flickr.com Big Bambu Installation by…

Uses for Bamboo in Sustainable Building

When you’re considering potential building materials for home construction as a society we tend to focus on two or three commonly utilized and widely accepted building materials: wood, stone or concrete. What you may not realize is that bamboo solutions can be used for much more than just food, musical instruments, medicine, paper and textiles….

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Bamboo Joints and Joinery Techniques

How to join bamboo and what are the best bamboo joints are the two questions that a designer need to interpret when working with bamboo. It is important to know a few basics principles about joining bamboo before discussing the different joinery techniques. —————————————————————————————————————————————– Basic Principles and Techniques Do not use green, fresh cut bamboo. Bamboo has to…

Bamboo: A Great Building Material Gets Even Better

Thanks to new techniques, in the last 20 years the two basic problems, of joinery, and of preservation, have been solved, allowing much more innovative building and moving bamboo forward as a “modern” building material. Moreover, a variety of designs with bamboo of contemporary architects and designers are demonstrating to the local communities and world that…

The Reality about Building with Bamboo

Building with bamboo at the present time is not much cheaper than other building materials in the reality. Although there are 1500 known bamboo species on the planet, only some of them can be used for construction.  The first criteria for building a quality and long lasting bamboo home is the species. Without the proper harvesting, curing and drying techniques or…

Bamboo in Construction: Is the Grass Always Greener?

 “Bamboo certainly has the potential to maintain its status as a green product of choice, but as it becomes more common, suppliers will have to do more to earn that status. The tremendous growth in the market for bamboo flooring and other products is magnifying the potential negative effects and drawing less reputable players into…

Why Bamboo?

Here are reasons: DEFORESTATION and increased CO2 emissions threaten the earth’s biodiversity and the very air we breathe… Perhaps the environmental crisis’ at hand have not yet touched your life, but the time is shortly to come. Recent NASA reports of a 60% loss of ozone over the arctic provide an explanation for increased severity…

What’s so special about Bamboo?

Bamboo is very special. It is a fast growing natural resource whose rate of biomass generation is unsurpassed in the plant kingdom. It is without doubt one of the most important non-wood forestry products and one of the most important agricultural plants in the world. Technically, bamboos are grasses belonging to the subfamily Bambusoideae.  Over…