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Simón Vélez architecte // La maîtrise du bambou

Pierre Frey
2013
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Abstract

Avec pour seuls outils un cahier Clairefontaine et des crayons de couleur, l’architecte colombien Simon Vélez décline des structures complexes en bambou guadua (guadua angustifolia), espèce endémique des vallées colombiennes. En étroite collaboration avec l’ingénieur-constructeur Marcello Villegas, il a imaginé une série d’assemblages de tiges de bambou et développé un savoir-faire à la fois très spécifique et d’une grande précision. Avec cette monographie illustrée par des photographies de Deidi von Schaewen, Pierre Frey nous offre l’un des rares ouvrages sur ce créateur.

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Pierre Frey
2013
Books

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/9cc178b1-bcea-4536-a302-facd6f05c2bf

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Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family, in the case of Dendrocalamus sinicus individual culms reaching a length of 46 meters, up to 36 centimeters in thickness and a weight of up to 450 kilograms. The internodes of bamboos can also be of great length. Kinabaluchloa wrayi has internodes up to 2.5 meters in length.

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