Monday, August 3, 2009

Kengo Kuma - Great Bamboo Wall (not House)

and oh how great his designs are..










Kengo Kuma, a humble man (reflected from his works). His works are so incredibly ONE with the nature of the site. For example this Bamboo Wall, he used Chinese traditional material (which is bamboo) throughout the house. He let the bamboos work their own magic, he said every crack on the bamboo is precious, it tells you the story of their life. In relation to the site, the Bamboo Wall is inspired from The Great Wall of China (how it runs endlessly along the ridgeline without being isolated from the environment), and so the Bamboo Wall sits on its site, being ONE with it, not as an isolated object.

And it's also designed to capture the best view of the Great Wall undulating endlessly on the mountains.












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