ZCB Bamboo Pavilion | The Chinese Hong Kong University School of Architecture

30The ZCB Bamboo Pavilion which designed by The Chinese Hong Kong University is a public event space built for the Construction Industry Council's Zero Carbon Building (ZCB) in the summer of 2015 in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong . It is a four-story-high long-span bending-active bamboo grid shell structure with a footprint of approximately 350m2 and a seating capacity of 200 people. It is built from 475 large bamboo poles that are bent onsite to shape the structure and that are hand-tied together with metal wire using techniques based on Cantonese bamboo scaffolding craftsmanship. The shape is a large diagrid shell…