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Bamboo Tactics

Spring 2022
PROJECT LEADERSHIP: LESLIE LOK & Weishun Xu
Team: Shihui Xie
 

Bamboo is widely accessible as a sustainable natural resource and has long been used in traditional architecture across various global contexts. It is also a natural resource with unique material and structural characteristics. With its non-uniform dimension, there remain challenges to processing and using bamboo beyond the standardized methods. The research explores mixed-reality (MR) enhanced design workflow to discover a catalog of new material tactics for bamboo architectural assemblies. Pairing manual making with virtual augmentation to enable material tactics for bamboo that are both high-tech and low-tech, customizable and translatable to rural/rural-urban areas where the material is often abundantly available.

Virtual Scanning

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Irregularity Tracking

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Nested Tiling

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