Host: Bambooroo/ Mark Emery

We are inviting architects, design professionals, students and general bamboo enthusiasts to attend a bamboo bridge building workshop on 7- 9th of December 2011, in Chaing Mai, Thailand. Special guest Andrea “Chak” Fitrianto, an Indonesian “Community Architect” with degrees from UNPAR Bandung and IHS Rotterdam. Chak has been working with communities in post tsunami Aceh, Kenya, the poorest areas of some Asian cities, disaster stricken areas, and recently in Davao, Mindanao where he built the 23m span “Matina Footbridge” out of native bamboos. Here is your chance to work with Chak on the ”Community Bamboo Footbridge” .

Also, work alongside Mark Emery as he instructs the “History of Bamboo Bridges”
Australian Landscape Architect from UNSW will present the history of bamboo bridge building from indigenous societies to contemporary commercial and public applications for bamboo bridges. Within this presentation we will explore the various architectural concepts that can be applied to bamboo bridge building.
Workshop Exercises:
1. “Davinci Bridge” Deployable Bridges
2. “Hyperbolic Tower” Column used with tents
3. “12m Bamboo Bridge” New Typology of bamboo bridge
For the full program, please see : http://www.bambooroo.net/bamboo_workshops_dec.php

Contacts:

THAI:             +668 8547 2098
ENGLISH:             +668 0954 0328
Email: bambooroo@gmail.com