Bamboo Craft Village By Archi-Union Architects in China

The Bamboo Craft Village is more than 50 kilometers from the Chinese city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province. It is meant to be a natural, artistic, and economic utopia. Natural because it brings back the feeling of rural life in the area, is closely connected to the landscape, and was built with ecological principles in mind. Artisanal because the whole village is a building experiment based on the recovery of handicraft techniques and the use of traditional building materials like wood, bamboo, and ceramic. And socioeconomic, because the utopia tries to connect the rural world to China’s modern industrial culture, which is as important or even more important than the country’s ancient customs.

Project Details

State: China
MATERIAL Wood
DATE 2018
CITY Chengdu
Client: Confidential
Suppliers: Shanghai Fab-Union Architectural Technology and Digital Fabrication Co., Ltd; Suzhou Crownhomes Co., Ltd
COUNTRY China
PHOTOGRAPHER Bian Lin

The village is made up of six areas: a weaving center, a service area in the middle of the village, a tourist center, a youth hostel, a bed and breakfast, and the InBamboo prototype house. All of them have a lot of respect for the genius loci and use materials and methods from the area. The whole village is a result of the InBamboo prototype, which was built with a mix of traditional systems and materials, prefabrication, and digital design and fabrication techniques. This allowed the architecture, interior, and landscape to be finished in just 52 days.

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