7.清江芙蓉亭
上海
A waterfront landscape pavilion precedent featuring complex woven bamboo conical structures and dynamic light filtering through structural ribs.
- What we like about this project
- An open central oculus allows direct vertical light penetration through the dense woven dome.
Materials
- bamboo
- timber
Visual identifiers
- bamboo-pavilion
- conical-roof
- woven-dome
- waterfront-setting
Style tags
- bamboo
- vernacular
- organic
- contemporary
Visual tags
- bamboo
- pavilion
- vernacular-craft
- landscape
- waterfront
- Geometry
- Three conical bamboo pavilion volumes of varying heights clustered on a low platform beside water.
- Facade system
- Woven bamboo lattice envelope over structural framing.
- Structural guess
- Bundled bamboo columns supporting curved bamboo ring beams and conical roof trusses.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled landscape pavilions large enough to gather underneath.
- Lighting
- Direct sunlight casting linear pattern shadows through woven bamboo ribs and an open oculus.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, dappled light filtering through natural woven materials.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront park edge surrounded by lush green vegetation and wetlands.
- Spatial experience
- Approached via raised outdoor boardwalks leading into sheltered, shaded bamboo interior cocoons.
- Composition rhythm
- Radial layout of clustered cones with repeating vertical structural bamboo stems.
- Style reading
- Contemporary bamboo vernacular architecture
- Program
- Park viewing pavilion and shelter
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- bamboo, timber
- Visual identifiers
- bamboo-pavilion, conical-roof, woven-dome, waterfront-setting
- Style tags
- bamboo, vernacular, organic, contemporary
- Visual tags
- bamboo, pavilion, vernacular-craft, landscape, waterfront
- Geometry
- Three conical bamboo pavilion volumes of varying heights clustered on a low platform beside water.
- Facade system
- Woven bamboo lattice envelope over structural framing.
- Structural guess
- Bundled bamboo columns supporting curved bamboo ring beams and conical roof trusses.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled landscape pavilions large enough to gather underneath.
- Lighting
- Direct sunlight casting linear pattern shadows through woven bamboo ribs and an open oculus.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, dappled light filtering through natural woven materials.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront park edge surrounded by lush green vegetation and wetlands.
- Spatial experience
- Approached via raised outdoor boardwalks leading into sheltered, shaded bamboo interior cocoons.
- Composition rhythm
- Radial layout of clustered cones with repeating vertical structural bamboo stems.
- Style reading
- Contemporary bamboo vernacular architecture
- Program
- Park viewing pavilion and shelter
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture