Bamboo Restaurant

Bamboo Restaurant
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Bamboo Restaurant

Jorge Kelleher

ARCHITECTS
Jorge Kelleher

STRUCTURE
Farut Varon

USE
Restaurant

CONCEPT DESIGN
Rodrigo Sanchez

MANUFACTURERS
Dmt, Fester, Guadua Angustifolia

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Jorge Kelleher, Farut Varon, Diego Mendoza , Rodrigo Sanchez.

PARAMETRIC DESIGN
Diego Mendoza

PHOTOGRAPHS
the Polf

AREA
245 M²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Playa Del Carmen, Mexico

CATEGORY
Restaurant

The bamboo structure is located at the Secrets Moxché Playa del Carmen hotel, created to serve one of its restaurants, with a view of a body of water and other amenities of the place, taking inspiration from the endemic vegetation of the region and its organic geometry, the cover is based on the structural principles of the leaves, which consist of a flat zone or lamina and a petiole that provides central support and joins it to the stem.

Bamboo Restaurant
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Bamboo Restaurant
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In this way, a biomimetic approach is implemented that gives rise to a unique, lightweight, and flexible architecture that envelops the user and elegantly exposes the behavior of its elements.

The initial supports are the specifically designed metal pieces for the project, they are the main base from where the central columns are born, as if they were petioles in a plant, which curve and close upon themselves, transforming into beams and contours, giving this organic shape that flows throughout the cover.

Bamboo Restaurant
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Bamboo Restaurant
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Bamboo plays an important role as a material, since thanks to its properties, this type of beams can be elaborated.

From these beams, symmetrically perpendicular logs are born, creating a cover that is sustained by emulating the function of the ribs of a leaf.

Bamboo Restaurant
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Bamboo Restaurant
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The columns provide the final support to the project. Guadua angustifolia logs were used, allowing us to break the rigid verticality of a usual column and create an element that becomes an ornamental part of the composition, reinterpreting the stems of a plant, which emerge upward from the same axis, but with their particular inclinations just as nature would do.

Above this, the roof layer is composed of an interlacing framework of bamboo slats in such a way that they create a rhomboidal weaving pattern, a subtle detail that can be appreciated when approaching from the interior and contrasts when encountering a grid and a square order that, when exponentially multiplied, transforms into something organic and curved.

Bamboo Restaurant
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Bamboo Restaurant
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Using various software, a 3D model was created that simulated the behavior of bamboo and also allowed quantifying the amount of material to be used and the cost.

This fusion between technology and nature is implemented and perfected in each of our projects, resulting in a more efficient way of working with bamboo and, at the same time, revealing an unparalleled architectural proposal with the potential to provide creative solutions to the spaces of the future.

Bamboo Restaurant
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Bamboo Restaurant
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Bamboo Restaurant
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Bamboo Restaurant
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Bamboo Restaurant
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Plan
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Aerial View
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Structure
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Elevation
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Elevation
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Elevation


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Isometric
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Section
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Axonometric


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Metallic Pieces