Posted by sabine7
Other | 12 Oct 07 | Comments (4) | Stumble
The Design School at the Université de Québec à Montréal recently focussed on the elastic qualities of bamboo and sent us photographs of the resulting projects. Each group was given 50 feet of bamboo flooring. One group created a wall-mounted modular storage system, shown above, where they placed everything from kitchen accessories to Kleenex. Another group made a room divider that stretched up to 20 feet, and a third one created a large chair that rocks. Looks like fun: lie down on the seat and appear to levitate.
Thanks for posting our project MoCo Loco!
Here are the credits for the work shown:
1. Wall-mounted modular storage system for ANYTHING (Laurence Cotel, Nicolas Robitaille-Dubois, Marie-Christine Lacasse, Thomas Lacombe)
2. Expanding elastic room devider (Karim Guelmi, Jacinthe Lemire, Sophie Ingels-Fortier, Marie-Eve Cloutier, Christel Leblanc-Denis)
3. X-large elastic levitation chair (Elise Vigneault, Jacinthe DeGuire, Nicolas Rodrigue-Trudel, Marie-Claude Savard)
The project was a collaboration with the Bamboo Warehouse who donated all the bamboo. (bamboowarehouse.ca). Special thanks to Stéphane Kostas!
All the best,
Patrick Evans
Professeur
UNIVERSITÉ DE QUÉBEC À MONTREAL
École de design
I find this concept interesting. In fact, the first time I ever saw bamboo wall-mounted that way was in Indonesia last spring. One of our Indonesian customers had the most beautiful and huge bamboo display, also wall-mounted, at their main entrance hallway. It was an incredible eye-catcher that we had were forgetting about our meeting with our customer, for a second there.
Thank you for the extra information!
Its really lovely to see interest being shown in bamboo. It is an amazing material and a really beautiful plant as well. To really find out just how wonderful this material is you should explore bamboo itself (as opposed to board which behaves quite differently). Making a trip to India and China would be a great idea. Maybe you could get in touch with MP Ranjan (ranjanmp@nid.edu). He teaches at NID and has co authored a book, "Cane and Bamboo Crafts of NorthEast India"