Bamboo Grid Shell: A Large-Span Shelter Curved into Shape

A temporary exhibition and performance space, four stories high, with a structure made of hundreds of bamboo poles bent on-site into a grid shell. The bamboo poles are approximately 80mm in diameter, woven into a diamond grid in a bidirectional crisscross pattern, with intersections hand-tied with galvanized iron wire, showing traditional scaffolding techniques. The overall shape is a twisted ring, with the bending radius of each bamboo determined parametrically, so each one is unique. The top is covered with a translucent membrane, and sunlight passing through casts grid shadows on the ground. The bottom is completely open, with people moving within. Avoid: using steel pipes to imitate bamboo for the structure, making nodes into metal castings, creating a regular dome shape, adding walls to enclose the space.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座四層樓高的臨時展演空間,結構是由數百根竹竿現場彎曲而成的網殼。竹竿直徑約 80mm,以雙向交錯的方式編成菱形網格,交點用鍍鋅鐵線手工綁紮,綁法看得見來自傳統棚架的工法。整體造型是一個扭轉的環,由參數化的方式決定每根竹的彎曲半徑,所以每一根都不同。頂部覆半透明的薄膜,陽光穿過之後在地面投出網格的影子。底部完全開放,人在其中走動。避免:結構使用鋼管仿竹、節點做成金屬鑄件、造型做成規則的圓頂、加入牆面封閉空間。