Yet there was something missing, aberrant, or unsettling about each mega-structuralist project (fictitious, totalitarian, too widely accepted…). Avant-garde thinkers in the mid 1950’s and ‘60’s in Europe and America such as Cedric Price, Buckminster Fuller, Peter Cook and particularly Yona Friedman proposed radically flexible and mobile models of architecture and urbanism to solve some of the most pressing and visible problems of the immediately post-war world (1). This is not the first time that an architectural solution of speed, lightness and flexibility has been proposed to solve our most challenging urban problems.
Instead, a system of speed, flexibility and soft-structure is required for the World’s most complex social, environmental, and economic issues. In an expanding and increasingly volatile world an anachronistic model of architecture and urbanism based on planning, authority, history and permanence has less and less ability to solve today’s economic and ecological problems. We have lost touch with the softer systems of dynamic change that live within and around us - systems that govern our very existence. And if you're interested in learning more about bamboo construction materials, check out our Materials catalog.*This article is scheduled for publication in the up-coming issue of Bracket – and is currently available for pre-order at.
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To protect the structure, nylon gauze is sometimes draped along the outside.Ĭheck out a series of GIFs and images showing how it works after the break. Despite using few safety restraints, crews are able to construct up to 1,000 square feet of bamboo scaffolding in just one day. To create the structures, the high strength, lightweight material is strapped together with plastic ties by construction crews, who also use the structure as a ladder for scaling the building. But instead of the steel or aluminum structures used as scaffolding in Europe and the Western Hemisphere, the majority of skyscrapers built in Hong Kong and much of Asia used scaffolding systems constructed out of bamboo. In the late 20th century, restricted by an a small landmass and extreme terrain, the Hong Kong urban area grew to become one of the densest and most vertical places on the planet, with more buildings taller than 500 feet than any other city in the world. The architectural highlights of the project were successfully realized using special PERI formwork elements. In doing so, the existing limits of PERI’s concrete construction offerings were pushed.
PERI, one of the leading formwork and scaffolding manufacturers worldwide - and the building materials manufacturer HeidelbergCement - combined their architectural and concrete expertise for the execution of this project.
The architectural firm AS+P Albert Speer + Partner based in Frankfurt was responsible for the project as a general planner, and carried out the design in collaboration with W+Architektur, with the latter providing the consulting office for the client’s project manager. The building was opened in June 2020 and provides up to 1,000 employees with a state-of-the-art work environment. The atrium of each building section provides plenty of light and luminance. The new headquarters of the building materials manufacturer HeidelbergCement consists of three interconnected building sections of different heights. Unlike in most other cases, they were not concreted from above but from below. The three groups of tree-like supports tower over three storeys in the foyer.
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