Bamboo Theatre / DnA
Bamboo is a quickly growing grass that is found in every garden in China and as spare woodland in many hilly regions.
© Ziling Wang
Architects: DnA
Location: Hengkengcun, Songyang, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
Lead Architects: Tiantian Xu
Client: Songyang Tourism Development Co., Ltd.
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Ziling Wang, Dan Han
© Ziling Wang
Text description provided by the architects. Bamboo is a quickly growing grass that is found in every garden in China and as spare woodland in many hilly regions.
© Ziling Wang
The importance of bamboo in Chinese culture arises from a range of qualities such as its flexible structure, the sparkling green lighting effect that a bamboo grove engenders, its many varieties, and its technical properties as a material. For the village of Hengkeng, Xu Tiantian designed a theatre stage that is inspired by a historical account.
© Dan Han
Diagram
Courtesy of DnA_Design and Architecture Studio
For the construction of the bamboo dome, the architect used a low-tech approach that takes the rapid growth and bendable quality of the material into account. Once installed, the growing dome requires little regular maintenance: younger bamboo sprouts are woven into the existing dome and old poles are removed.This bioorganic architecture in natural surroundings facilitates activities ranging from village opera...
© Ziling Wang
Architects: DnA
Location: Hengkengcun, Songyang, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
Lead Architects: Tiantian Xu
Client: Songyang Tourism Development Co., Ltd.
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Ziling Wang, Dan Han
© Ziling Wang
Text description provided by the architects. Bamboo is a quickly growing grass that is found in every garden in China and as spare woodland in many hilly regions.
© Ziling Wang
The importance of bamboo in Chinese culture arises from a range of qualities such as its flexible structure, the sparkling green lighting effect that a bamboo grove engenders, its many varieties, and its technical properties as a material. For the village of Hengkeng, Xu Tiantian designed a theatre stage that is inspired by a historical account.
© Dan Han
Diagram
Courtesy of DnA_Design and Architecture Studio
For the construction of the bamboo dome, the architect used a low-tech approach that takes the rapid growth and bendable quality of the material into account. Once installed, the growing dome requires little regular maintenance: younger bamboo sprouts are woven into the existing dome and old poles are removed.This bioorganic architecture in natural surroundings facilitates activities ranging from village opera...
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