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The Bamboo Pavilion is a visually impressive creation by the Indian architectural firm Abin Design made for a local festival in Bansberia in the state of Western Bengal at the price of practically nothing. It is a captivating, sustainable and artistic installation constructed using locally grown material.
A temporary pavilion for a religious festival at Bansberia, India, which had to attract visitors, reflect the spirit of the event and be really economic as it was a community project. The designers of the Indian architectural studio Abin Design accepted and met this challenge with vitality, colour and a locally grown construction material: bamboo.
The installation is made of about 1,800 bamboo canes cut to various heights and painted in fifteen different colours. They are positioned around the idol of the festival like a sort of protective wall which, thanks to their various assortment of heights and colours, symbolises movement and, in turn, reflects the continuous motion of the mass of visitors.
Due to the low budget LED lights were not used for the evening illumination of the pavilion, so Abin Design Studio attached a strip of retro-reflective vinyl tape onto each coloured pole. Owing to the use of halogen floodlights (rented for the period of the festival) this low cost solution created almost the same effect as LED light bulbs!
The Bamboo Pavilion by Abin Design Studio is surprising for the simplicity of the means used in its creation and for its visual power. The bamboo canes were catalogued according to their length, colour and position inside the installation for future use since the pavilion was specifically conceived as a temporary construction.
Afterwards, the Bamboo Pavilion was rebuilt and put on display in the exhibition Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities at the Museum of Modern Art in New York last November.
Christiane Bürklein
Project: Abin Design Studio
Locations: Bansberia, West Bengal, India
Year: 2012
Photography: courtesy of Abin Design Studio
The Newtown School in Kolkata
A temporary pavilion for a religious festival at Bansberia, India, which had to attract visitors, reflect the spirit of the event and be really economic as it was a community project. The designers of the Indian architectural studio Abin Design accepted and met this challenge with vitality, colour and a locally grown construction material: bamboo.
The installation is made of about 1,800 bamboo canes cut to various heights and painted in fifteen different colours. They are positioned around the idol of the festival like a sort of protective wall which, thanks to their various assortment of heights and colours, symbolises movement and, in turn, reflects the continuous motion of the mass of visitors.
Due to the low budget LED lights were not used for the evening illumination of the pavilion, so Abin Design Studio attached a strip of retro-reflective vinyl tape onto each coloured pole. Owing to the use of halogen floodlights (rented for the period of the festival) this low cost solution created almost the same effect as LED light bulbs!
The Bamboo Pavilion by Abin Design Studio is surprising for the simplicity of the means used in its creation and for its visual power. The bamboo canes were catalogued according to their length, colour and position inside the installation for future use since the pavilion was specifically conceived as a temporary construction.
Afterwards, the Bamboo Pavilion was rebuilt and put on display in the exhibition Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities at the Museum of Modern Art in New York last November.
Christiane Bürklein
Project: Abin Design Studio
Locations: Bansberia, West Bengal, India
Year: 2012
Photography: courtesy of Abin Design Studio
The Newtown School in Kolkata