Restaurant at Greenville

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The owner of this restaurant was dreamed of having an outdoor Japanese Noodle restaurant. But he realized that it is not usual, and for preventing a great loss, he commissioned us to design an outdoor and temporary restaurant that hopefully would be easily to be built/assembled and also easily to be disassembled.

But what kind of Bamboo, and how would it looks like? We started to think about what is the basic function of a building? For us, it is basically for protection.

Protect us from sun, wind, rain, etc. Does it sound like the function of umbrella also? The form of restaurant basically was inspired by an umbrella. But we want to make a “giant” and an “unusual“ umbrella.The “giant” form would be functioned as a “shelter”.

We make the “giant” bamboo umbrella in different size (the width and the height) for arranging the “giant” umbrella in such a way that each “umbrella” could overlap each other to become a “giant” roof.

Bamboo is a strong material and with a minor modification, we can directly create a great and beautiful structure. The structure is tied up by a rope called “ijuk”. Each roof is supported independently by four bamboos, which is tied up with cross beam, also by bamboo, to create one big column.

The system is used for preventing water dripping, and for protecting cracking which usually happened when bamboo is being exposed directly to the sun.