Meet the bamboo-tent hotel that can grow

Flexible, versatile and sustainable–these words best describe the bamboo structure design by Beijing-based design cooperative Penda.

Dezeen reports that the design was made for the AIM Legend of the Tent competition in China, with the prompt to develop low-impact tent themed-hotels with a closer connection to the outdoors

Inspired by how tipis of the Great Plains Native American peoples were constructed, the bamboo structure is a triangular, lightweight building that can easily be expanded vertically or horizontally.

Bamboo, both easy to grow and is an readily available, native plant in China, was chosen because of its sustainability.

Find out more about the design in this interview with Dezeen.

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Rainscreen system installed at the west building envelope expansion of the University of Arizona’s Meinel Optical Sciences Center in Tucson, with its folded glass wall and copper-paneled, breathable cladding over precast concrete.

| Dec 10, 2011

Energy performance starts at the building envelope

Rainscreen system installed at the west building expansion of the University of Arizona’s Meinel Optical Sciences Center in Tucson, with its folded glass wall and copper-paneled, breathable cladding over precast concrete.

| Dec 10, 2011

Turning Balconies Outside In

Operable glass balcony glazing systems provide solution to increase usable space in residential and commercial structures.

| Dec 10, 2011

BIM tools to make your project easier to manage

Two innovations—program manager Gafcon’s SharePoint360 project management platform and a new BIM “wall creator” add-on developed by ClarkDietrich Building Systems for use with the Revit BIM platform and construction consultant—show how fabricators and owner’s reps are stepping in to fill the gaps between construction and design that can typically be exposed by working with a 3D model.