Hyper bamboo - Internationaler Workshop in Thailand

a journey a partnership - a common work - an academic highlight

Anyway- it was an occurrence in a very special way.

After a long flight with tight seats we arrived in a gigantic university campus. The academic life there was significant. An open society, a lot of nice, young people, friendly collegues, an atmosphere of high education and cultural flowering- liberty and accepted order at same time.

Our partners, the faculty of architecture, showed a high leveld international standard. The workshop was perfectly organized by our dear collegues Sanphawat Jatupatwarankul and Jaturont Boonla-or and the assistance of the polite Thai-students was very helpful.

So we could spend eventful days in Thailand. The workshop was filled with learning effects and the contact with Bamboo, the interest and constructing with an -for western european people- unusual material, gave us exciting inputs for our future work.

Integrated in the several working groups our students joined the practical and theoretical work-stages. The final results were admirable- a good base for a lot of researching projects and economical material developments.

Bamboo as an construction material - in my view - is bordered by its natural structure and physical conditions. lt seems to be a special material for a lot of tropical and subtropical regions all over the world. Its compatibility for Europe has to be proved in a longtime examination, because its reaction to a more extreme climat is not really clear.

What we could see as examples of Bamboo-Architecture was emazing and unforgettable.

Thank you - Assumption University - for all, and welcome to the next workshop 2018 in Wismar and Neubrandenburg!