4 World-Class Bamboo Buildings Made Possible With Digital Tools
How algorithms turn your ideas into structures, and what tools you need.
Bamboo is irregular, tapered, and no two culms are alike. Most design software was built for none of that. This session shows you how digital tools bridge that gap, and what each one resolved on four real projects.
Join Luis live for a free session on four real bamboo buildings and the digital tools that made each one possible. No cost, no prior Rhino or Grasshopper experience needed.
Award-Winning Design Starts With an Idea. Yours Already Has One
Every architect worth remembering starts with a strong idea inspired from nature. What sets the best apart, the one who gets published, gets recognised, and gets remembered, is knowing how to actually build it.
Live With Luis
Luis Echeverria
Luis works across biomimicry and digital design, and leads this free session live, walking through four real bamboo projects and the tools behind each one.
Four Real Projects, Four Problems Digital Tools Solved
Bamboo is irregular, tapered, and no two culms are alike. Most design software was built for none of that. This session shows you how digital tools bridge that gap, and what each one resolved on four real projects.
The Dome
At The Kul Kul Farm, inspired by a turtle.
The Playground
At The Kul Kul Farm, inspired by a single sea creature, the nudibranch.
The Kul Kul Farm Pod
Laminated bamboo arches, earthen walls, layered roof.
The Arc
The award-winning gym at Green School.
We Teach the Bridge
Rhino and Grasshopper are how a natural form becomes a real, buildable structure. This live training walks you through that exact process, live.
The tools behind all four
Rhino, Grasshopper and the presentation tools that carried each idea from sketch to buildable structure.
Where algorithms come in
How computation handles what freehand drawing cannot, an irregular, tapered material where no two culms are alike.
A live Grasshopper Dome gridshell demo
Watch a gridshell model generate live in the session, built and explained step by step.
"With bamboo, many small elements come together to create something much bigger, and complexity grows quickly. Digital tools help us understand the forces, geometry and relationships between those elements. But computation is only half of the story. The real magic happens when digital thinking meets the intelligence of the material and the knowledge of the hand."Luis Echeverria, Course Host, Bamboo U
Pick the Time That Works for You
- Europe (CEST)9:00 AM
- Africa (WAT / SAST)8:00 AM / 9:00 AM
- Asia (IST)12:30 PM
- Americas (ET / PT)9:00 PM / 6:00 PM, 17 Sep
- Asia (IST)6:30 AM
- Australia (AEST)11:00 AM
- Europe (CEST)1:00 PM
- Africa (WAT / SAST)12:00 PM / 1:00 PM
- Americas (ET / PT)7:00 AM / 4:00 AM
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