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Smart Bamboo: Cross-Laminated Bamboo Installation

Smart Bamboo: Cross-Laminated Bamboo Installation
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This installation, containing both wall and seating elements, was designed and built to simultaneously experiment with and showcase our novel green panelized building system made from lightly modified natural bamboo poles.

Students and faculty from VT have been researching bamboo to develop a carbon sequestering, “green” building system as an alternative to steel and concrete in tropical urban housing. This research has developed a method to maximize bamboo’s natural advantages by compositing it into a panel system with minimal modification and waste. This conversion of irregular, biologically intelligent bamboo poles into standardized, bamboo surfaces, has resulted in a generative composite we call Smart Bamboo.

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Team

  • Greg Marggraf, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Architecture
  • Daniel Hindman, College of Natural Resources and Environment, Sustainable Biomaterials 
  • Jennifer Russell, College of Natural Resources and Environment, Sustainable Biomaterials
  • Jonas Hauptman, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Industrial Design 
  • Keith Hack, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Architecture