Wind and Water Café
Wind and Water Café, located amongst a lush tropical landscape, is one of the earliest experiments to use bamboo in a contemporary architectural expression. With traditional processing methods of bamboo such as soaking in mud and smoking, bamboo demonstrate its outstanding characteristics of aesthetic, durability, ecology and cost efficiency as a building material. wNw Café consists of thousands of culms of bamboo with minimum usage of steel. The roof, made by a combination of bamboo and steel tensile members, provides the voluminous space reaching a width of 12-meters without columns. Its V-shape was generated according to CFD analysis, aiming at maximizing the wind flowing into the building. Status: Built in 03. 2006 Program: Cafe Location: Binhduong, Vietnam GFA: 1,200 m2 Client: Wind and Water Company JSC Contractor: VTN Architects Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki, Dinh Thu Thuy Design credit: VTN Architects Awards: International Architecture Awards, 2008 AR Awards for Emerging Architecture,15 Finalists, 2007 International bamboo building design competition, Category winner, 2007 International bamboo building design competition, Second prize, 2007
Wind and Water Café, located amongst a lush tropical landscape, is one of the earliest experiments to use bamboo in a contemporary architectural expression. With traditional processing methods of bamboo such as soaking in mud and smoking, bamboo demonstrate its outstanding characteristics of aesthetic, durability, ecology and cost efficiency as a building material. wNw Café consists of thousands of culms of bamboo with minimum usage of steel. The roof, made by a combination of bamboo and steel tensile members, provides the voluminous space reaching a width of 12-meters without columns. Its V-shape was generated according to CFD analysis, aiming at maximizing the wind flowing into the building. Status: Built in 03. 2006 Program: Cafe Location: Binhduong, Vietnam GFA: 1,200 m2 Client: Wind and Water Company JSC Contractor: VTN Architects Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki, Dinh Thu Thuy Design credit: VTN Architects Awards: International Architecture Awards, 2008 AR Awards for Emerging Architecture,15 Finalists, 2007 International bamboo building design competition, Category winner, 2007 International bamboo building design competition, Second prize, 2007
Wind and Water Café, located amongst a lush tropical landscape, is one of the earliest experiments to use bamboo in a contemporary architectural expression. With traditional processing methods of bamboo such as soaking in mud and smoking, bamboo demonstrate its outstanding characteristics of aesthetic, durability, ecology and cost efficiency as a building material. wNw Café consists of thousands of culms of bamboo with minimum usage of steel. The roof, made by a combination of bamboo and steel tensile members, provides the voluminous space reaching a width of 12-meters without columns. Its V-shape was generated according to CFD analysis, aiming at maximizing the wind flowing into the building. Status: Built in 03. 2006 Program: Cafe Location: Binhduong, Vietnam GFA: 1,200 m2 Client: Wind and Water Company JSC Contractor: VTN Architects Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki, Dinh Thu Thuy Design credit: VTN Architects Awards: International Architecture Awards, 2008 AR Awards for Emerging Architecture,15 Finalists, 2007 International bamboo building design competition, Category winner, 2007 International bamboo building design competition, Second prize, 2007
Wind and Water Café, located amongst a lush tropical landscape, is one of the earliest experiments to use bamboo in a contemporary architectural expression. With traditional processing methods of bamboo such as soaking in mud and smoking, bamboo demonstrate its outstanding characteristics of aesthetic, durability, ecology and cost efficiency as a building material. wNw Café consists of thousands of culms of bamboo with minimum usage of steel. The roof, made by a combination of bamboo and steel tensile members, provides the voluminous space reaching a width of 12-meters without columns. Its V-shape was generated according to CFD analysis, aiming at maximizing the wind flowing into the building. Status: Built in 03. 2006 Program: Cafe Location: Binhduong, Vietnam GFA: 1,200 m2 Client: Wind and Water Company JSC Contractor: VTN Architects Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki, Dinh Thu Thuy Design credit: VTN Architects Awards: International Architecture Awards, 2008 AR Awards for Emerging Architecture,15 Finalists, 2007 International bamboo building design competition, Category winner, 2007 International bamboo building design competition, Second prize, 2007
Description
Wind and Water Café, located amongst a lush tropical landscape, is one of the earliest experiments to use bamboo in a contemporary architectural expression.
With traditional processing methods of bamboo such as soaking in mud and smoking, bamboo demonstrate its outstanding characteristics of aesthetic, durability, ecology and cost efficiency as a building material.
wNw Café consists of thousands of culms of bamboo with minimum usage of steel. The roof, made by a combination of bamboo and steel tensile members, provides the voluminous space reaching a width of 12-meters without columns. Its V-shape was generated according to CFD analysis, aiming at maximizing the wind flowing into the building.
Status: Built in 03. 2006
Program: Cafe
Location: Binhduong, Vietnam
GFA: 1,200 m2
Client: Wind and Water Company JSC
Contractor: VTN Architects
Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki, Dinh Thu Thuy
Design credit: VTN Architects
Awards:
International Architecture Awards, 2008
AR Awards for Emerging Architecture,15 Finalists, 2007
International bamboo building design competition, Category winner, 2007
International bamboo building design competition, Second prize, 2007