The Bamboo Garden | Atelier REP

Designed by Atelier REP, The “Bamboo garden” is located in a typical countryside nearby the city. It is a “rejuvenation” project which implants new functions of family activity area in a dairy farm of a local dairy company. Families can experience the production process of healthy milk and get close to nature.
The purposes and strategies of this design are architecture — land — people, natural material, hand-making construction, and simple values.

Photography: zs-studio

The “Bamboo garden” is not for planting bamboo, but is considered to be an area to experiment with different types of bamboo structure. Since ancient times, bamboo has been using for artifacts, also it has been endowing with human feelings. The advantages of bamboo are growing fast, hardness and easy to process. That’s why we choose “bamboo” as the most important natural material. We try to find some new methods to explore contemporary hand-making construction based on traditional methods of bamboo techniques. Also, we hope to develop bamboo structure as an important architectural type in country life, agriculture, and landscape architecture to meet people’s requirements of back into nature.

Photography: Baoxin Yang

The parent-child activity area is outside and near to the farmers’ living area. The site stretches from south to north in a long strip shape with a length of 133 meters and a width of 18-32 meters. The existing buildings are some bungalows with brick–concrete structure. For space design, we adopted two strategies “retain, renovate ” and ”add, implant” to maintain normal working and living here while we rejuvenated this area by implanting parent-child activities.
In the way of “retain, renovate”: We retained the staff dormitory and guardhouse but turned four rooms of staff dormitory into sales room, dining room and restroom for visitors; Also we renovated the external space of guardhouse considering with these trees around.

Photography: zs-studio

In the way of “add, implant”: From south to north, the “bamboo garden” is planned to be four areas: entrance area, science education area, interactive experiences area, and entertainment area. Meanwhile, we added several architectures and implanted relevant cultural elements into the four areas. Corresponding with the architectures in each area are a fan-shaped entrance; an umbrella-shaped bamboo structure, a music square, and the wave-shaped bamboo wall; the verandas and bamboo walls; a grass storage.
In this design, all architectures are made of bamboo system structure and main materials are all from nature. Through experimenting joints in different materials in different ways, finally, each architecture has taken on its richness and differences.

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Project Info:
Architects: Atelier REP
Location: Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Team Member: Baoxin Yang
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: zs-studio, Baoxin Yang
Project Name: The Bamboo Garden

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Into the Wild | Ark-shelter

Into the Wild designed by Ark-shelter, Nowadays we live in a world where we are extremely busy and from time to time we need to escape from it. Escape from the stress, duties, and civilizations back to our roots where it all started.
The past 3 years we have been working on re-designing, building and testing different types of Ark-Shelters. We want to create a place that gives you comfort in the heart of nature and gives you the perfect setting for a detox of your mind. From this perspective, we created a new Shelter type: “into the wild cabin”. With his 5 openings all around we wanted to create a visual focus of nature all around. Each opening brings in another atmosphere of nature.

Photography: BoysPlayNice

There is a big openable wall side and the big front glazing makes you feel like you’re sitting outside. The milk glass window in the bathroom gives you the all-natural incoming light you need. We’ve made an extra module which is set on the roof and has a big window so you can sleep under a sky full of stars. The Shelter¨, with its low-tech outlook facade, is created so that it attempts to blend with nature while refining its complex and sophisticated system that automatically works with space and light.

Photography: BoysPlayNice

Thanks to an automatical system the heating, cooling, and shadings can be pre-programmed. The double-bed goes up automatically in the ceiling and beneath the bed, there is a hidden jacuzzi, this creates a new relaxing area. The Shelter can work completely off-grid through solar panels, batteries and rainwater collector.

Axo

The 40m2 has a central black box in the middle that creates 5 different areas, every single side is part of a particular area in the Shelter. The sliding doors in the corners create more space and the different areas can be completely divided.
Thanks to the extra module on top we have more incoming light from above. The left part of the box works as a kitchen and a relaxing zone, the back of the box has a shower and a sink next to the window. Next, to the bathroom, we have the big bed and the jacuzzi. The extra module on top is another bedroom that you can also easily turn into a relaxing meditation zone.
This new Shelter has been a totally new challenge for us it’s all about the details, we wanted to create a place that has it all in the least possible space but with all the possible luxury.

Photography: BoysPlayNice

Project Info:
Architects: Ark-shelter
Location: Slovakia
Lead Architects: Michiel De Backer, Martin Mikovčák
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: BoysPlayNice
Manufacturers: Geberit, Saint Gobain, prostoria, Ariston
Project Name: Into the Wild

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