NATURALLY STRONG

摘要

Bamboo may be the ultimate sustainable building material. As one of the world's fastest-growing plants, it can sprout up to 4 inches per day depending on variety, soil, and climate. Vo Trong Nghia Architects' design of the Indochine Café in Kon Turn, Vietnam, proves that the fast-growing grass can look sophisticated-even when it is left in its natural state. Built in 2013 as part of a hotel complex on the Dak Bla River, the 6,000-square-foot open-air restaurant is elegant in its simplicity: 15 inverted cones made of bamboo canes rise 20 feet to create a fan vault of sorts that supports a butterfly roof, also made from bamboo.