As one of the most suitable structural materials, bamboo has even more distinctive features than wood. With excellent bending resistance and tensile resistance, raw bamboo is easy to be bent or processed. With the help of modern bamboo processing technology, controllable sizing and processing of bamboo can be done in factories or even on site. The favorable site conditions and the advantages of bamboo granted us with the possibility of a free and relaxed form with a sense of strength, which complied with both the style of the campus and the atmosphere of the garden festival.

In the design process, where raw bamboo construction methods were integrated with modern building technologies, a conceptual design was made first, and the overall structure was generated through digital simulation. Compared with the traditional simulation method of making a small physical model, our approach had several advantages. Bamboo parts were prefabricated in factories where shaping and bending were done under controllable conditions, and then assembled on site. In this way, the conceptual design was implemented precisely.

As a result, sunlight, wind and vegetation were brought into the space, making it free from sense of oppression while presenting an image of swirling clouds. Credits: Dan Xie SUP Atelier, Shaohang Shi SUP Atelier, Xiaojuan Chen SUP Atelier, Jingfen Sun SUP Atelier, Mengjia Liu SUP Atelier, Yehao Song SUP Atelier, Yingnan Chu SUP Atelier Credits: - SUP Atelier - Associate Architect - Yehao Song - SUP Atelier - Associate Architect - Yingnan Chu - SUP Atelier - Associate Architect - Mengjia Liu - SUP Atelier - Associate Architect - Xiaojuan Chen - SUP Atelier - Associate Architect - Shaohang Shi - SUP Atelier - Associate Architect - Jingfen Sun - SUP Atelier - Associate Architect - Dan Xie