Ibuku is a Bali-based studio headed by founder Elora Hardy and is a pioneer of bamboo architecture. This team of designers and architects is dedicated to exploring a variety of typologies – from homes to hotels, schools, and event spaces.
Hardy recalls what attracted her to start working with the material: “I was searching for a way to feel responsible as a designer and as a human, wondering how to choose materials with good impact and significance. Working in fashion I became aware of the waste and toxicity built into our systems. In parallel, my father began designing buildings from bamboo in Bali. I realized that what I wanted to be part of was already happening within my own family.”
“The more I get to know bamboo, the more I aspire to be like it – unique while growing alongside other individuals, with flexibility as a strategy to avoid breaking under pressure. In its original form as a pole, bamboo has beauty, strength and personality that shouldn’t be over-designed; we must restrain our design instinct to control and shape it. And when turned into slats, it can dance with us, by being bent and curved into the forms of our imagination.”
“We have to change the core of our identities to work with bamboo, it contradicts much of what tends to be cultivated in the education and profession of architecture. Listen for natural intuition – bamboo works the way nature works, not the way you were trained to think.”
The Northeast Pavilion is a striking bamboo cloud of a structure and the brainchild of Mumbai-based architecture studio atArchitecture.
The Bengaluru International Airport unveiled its Terminal 2 structure in 2023, a pioneering bamboo design by architecture studio SOM in collaboration with Enter Projects Asia.
The MPavilion has steadily established itself as a key staple on Melbourne’s architecture agenda, marking the start of the Australian summer. For the installation’s third edition in 2016, MPavilion invited celebrated Indian architect Bijoy Jain to design his own version of the Queen Victoria Gardens folly.
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