Bamboo Canopy: A Digitally-made Leisure Shelter

BUILDINGS AND ALMOST BUILDINGS, Designing Matter, Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, Middle Density, nARCHITECTS, Project, Technology and fabrication, Urban Paradigms

Bamboo, Designing Matter, Digital fabrication, Energetic Approach, Ephemeral, Installation, Light, MoMA, New York City, Project, Technological Approach, Updating Native Techniques, USA, Vernacular

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Canopy was a temporary structure built with green bamboo in the courtyard of P.S.1, a contemporary art and music venue whose weekly Warm Up music parties attract 8,000 revelers every Saturday in the summer. Museum goers lounge, play, and dance to some of the most avant-garde DJ’s and groups to visit New York. The weekday and Sunday audience is quieter: students, and families with children. Overall, Canopy was host to more than 100,000 visitors during its five months of existence, during which time it underwent a slow transformation as the freshly cut green bamboo turned from green to tan. This rapid transformation emphasized Canopy’s brevity, allowing visitors to experience the effects of time in a direct and tactile way.