The Arc is the newest building on campus at the world-renowned Green School in Bali, Indonesia. The school has a 12-year history of breaking boundaries and expanding horizons and the Arc is the newest benchmark in that history, raising the bar for sustainable education around the world.
The first building of its kind ever made, The Arc is a feat of engineering, employing one of nature’s greatest strategies for creating large spaces with minimal structure. Within a human ribcage, a series of ribs working in compression is held in place by a tensioned flexible layer of muscle and skin. This creates a thin but strong encasement for the lungs. In the case of The Arc, a series of intersecting bamboo arches, reaching 14 meters tall and spanning 19 meters wide, are held in compression by a series of tensioned anticlastic gridshells, which derive their strength from curving in two opposite directions. These fields of gridshells appear to drape across the spaces between the impossibly thin arches soaring overhead, giving a whimsy, intimacy, and beauty to the space. Although the gridshells appear to hang from the arches, they actually hold them up.
Bamboo Pure collaborated with IBUKU and atelier.one to conduct extensive testing which resulted in a collection of fine-tuned, tailor-made construction details, keeping in mind the opportunities and limitations of bamboo construction.Bamboo Pure collaborated with IBUKU and atelier.one to conduct extensive testing which resulted in a collection of fine-tuned, tailor-made construction details, keeping in mind the opportunities and limitations of bamboo construction.
The result is a refined design with unparalleled beauty, which stands as a testament to Bamboo Pure’s commitment to providing creative construction solutions.
