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Student project from the Summer 2016 course and the design selected to be developed as a Bamboo Core house prototype.

Student project from the Summer 2016 course and the design selected to be developed as a Bamboo Core house prototype.

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Figure 1: Student project from the Summer 2016 course and the design...
Figure 2: Number of course enrolments over the five courses broken...
Figure 3: Construction of a small structure with locally sourced bamboo...
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Education to practice to ecology: A review and preliminary evaluation of a new architectural design curriculum using computational design tools and bamboo in Haiti
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  • Dec 2020
There is an absence of lightweight, sustainable construction materials in contemporary Haitian construction, a fact highlighted in the disproportionate loss of life in the 2010 Port-au-Prince earthquake. Between 2014 and 2017 the authors delivered a series of architectural design workshops in Haiti to raise awareness and develop design skills for b...
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... This workshop was designed as an introduction to the material and the software, therefore most students had not used Rhino, Grasshopper, or worked with the material of bamboo before (with a list of the software students were accustomed to, discussed later in Figure 5). Similar workshops have been organised by the AA which have looked at AD software and bamboo (Kewei et al., 2022;Naylor et al., 2020). The workshop took place online and in-person. ...
... Surveys asked gender, age, and profession, though there was no further information asked which could be used to identify the participants, therefore results were anonymous. Surveys were also used to evaluate the impact of similar architectural design workshops conducted by the AA in Haiti (Naylor et al., 2020). ...
Applying design tools for full-culm bamboo
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  • Jun 2022
Designers use a range of tools to conceive and visualise our built environment. Design for bamboo structures requires an understanding of the material and methods of construction in the initial design stages more so than with standardised man-made materials. This paper discusses and advocates for a mixed media of design tools which includes: concept sketching; physical model-making; computational design, specifically an algorithmic design (AD) approach; and full-scale construction; and discusses the opportunity afforded through the inclusion of an AD approach. Using methods of: self-observation; evaluation; and surveys, this paper reviews the application of this mixed media delivered through participatory action research in Panama in early 2022.
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