this Earth Day … bamboo architecture

Kisama heritage village, Nagaland, India

Via: NMBA

I have been to NMBA’s gallery again and again and have downloaded few bamboo structures, pre-fabs etc. I just needed an excuse to showcase these images!

And I am particularly enamoured with this bamboo structure!

Kisama Heritage Village

 

Kisama Heritage village

The National Mission on Bamboo Applications (NMBA) is a multi-disciplinary Technology Mission. It has been tasked with creating the basis for enlarging the bamboo sector, and with supporting the efforts of the Government of India towards augmenting economic opportunity, income and employment.

follow the wind

How would you like arrows for weathercocks - creating geometrical patterns on the outer walls of your house or your building!

This is Daikanyama Installation 2005 - Grand Prix Winning entry by Daisuke Ibano and Ryosuke Fujii -

“Blowin’in the wind”

In order to perceive the traces of the wind, Daisuke Ibano and Ryosuke Fujii have filled a mesh screen installed on the wall of a building on the Sanno Institute of Management Daikanyama campus with a number of arrows. The arrows point in respective directions as the wind blows and rest in balance as the wind stops.

green turfed roofscape

School of Art, Design & Media, Nanyang, Singapore

Designers : CPG Consultants Pte Ltd

This is a 5-storey School of Art, Design & Media at Nanyang Technological University campus, Singapore. This stunning piece of award-winning architecture is situated in a wooded valley. Before you read on, answer this : is this a landscape or a building?

The embracing arms of this unique building have a most spectacular verdant turfed roof which blends with ground contour as if emerges from it. It has glass curtain wall and raw concrete minus the painting.

Apart from its visual impact, the turfed roofscape helps to lower the roof temperature and surrounding areas. It works as a functional space, as a scenic outdoor community space via easily accessible sidesteps along the roof edge.

Lighting plays an important aspect to the building. The full glass curtain wall allows generous doses of daylight into the studios and galleries while cutting off the tropical heat. At night, the building glows like a lantern.

The exterior glass facade of the building allows full views to the outside, again providing visual connectivity with the surrounding lush landscape.

Three blocks of the school building are organically interwoven to enclose a sunken courtyard and a unique interconnectivity and flow.

architecture in water colours

Manoj Salunke

Let’s admire architecture through the the brushes of these young Indian artists… and I want to remain silent today…

Vijay Bijjargi

Ranjit Gharai

Samiran Sarkar

Aditi Swaminathan

See more of her work on her website ArtnThings.

Gopal Shikhare

Bhavesh Zala

 

Seema Pathak

quiz a little, tease a little

His interiors quizs a little, sometimes teases a little and in between  plays with whites or colours. Everything by New York based architect and interiors firm Shamir Shah Designs is achieved within modern connotations.