Architecture studio Penda has unveiled new CGI renderings detailing its vision for a city of 200,000 individuals that would be producing utilizing an revolutionary modular bamboo structure.

Future Vision for Rising Canes by Penda

Penda, a Beijing- and Vienna-based mostly studio, believes its layout for structures developed from interlocking horizontal and vertical bamboo rods could be utilised to sustainably develop the infrastructure of an total city by 2023.

“We think that in existing instances a sustainable way of development is much more useful than ever,” explained architects and studio co-founders Dayong Sun and Chris Precht, who have been utilizing bamboo given that their very first venture – a garden gatehouse in China.

Future Vision for Rising Canes by Penda

“The recent state of irresponsible city planning, air-pollution and financial crisis asks the architecture profession to rethink the procedure of developing,” they explained. “The use of normal resources like bamboo, linked to a smart modular method, offers a structure freedom to grow in every single route.”


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Penda initial developed the bamboo framework in 2014, after working on a concept for a flexible modular hotel. It involves connecting bamboo rods with X-shaped joints of the identical material, then making use of lengths of rope to supply further power.

The studio later realised that the method could be expanded and utilized to develop much more substantial constructions – from emergency housing to new urban centres, and unveiled their initial prototype for the duration of Beijing Layout Week last month. It is named Increasing Canes.

Future Vision for Rising Canes by Penda

The architects envision the elements of the system getting produced in China’s Anji County – a single of the biggest bamboo export regions in the globe. Right here, a new neighborhood could be established at the heart of a bamboo plantation.

“The method can grow to a habitat for 20 households inside the very first 9 months,” said Sun and Precht. “As the variety of inhabitants keeps developing, the construction gets extended to accommodate several communal spaces, bridges and even floating structures.”

Future Vision for Rising Canes by Penda

“By 2023 the bamboo advancement is extended to an urban configuration, inhabited by a population of 20,000 people and surrounded by a bamboo grove of 250 acres,” they added.


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1 of the primary advantages of the technique is that it gets a lot more stable as more joints are added. This indicates multi-degree structures could be very easily designed.

Structures can also be effortlessly disassembled with minimal wastage, as components can be reused several occasions.

Future Vision for Rising Canes by Penda

“With this patient and natural growth, the task describes a accurate ecological method of growth, which leaves no harm on the surrounding environment nor on the constructing materials itself and is consequently a counter-movement to a traditional way of the existing building approach,” added the architects.

Sun and Precht founded Penda in 2013. Given that then the pair has also created a idea for a customisable high-rise facade and a doughnut-shaped home based mostly on the form of a tree stump.

Rising Canes bamboo pavilion by Penda for Beijing Design Week 2015Idea diagram Rising Canes bamboo pavilion by Penda for Beijing Design Week 2015Structural diagram Rising Canes bamboo pavilion by Penda for Beijing Design Week 2015Bamboo integration  Rising Canes bamboo pavilion by Penda for Beijing Design Week 2015Construction phases 

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