BAMBOO TECTONICS FOR MIXED-USE OFFICE TOWER

This design emphasizing the importance of creating sustainable environments. In architecture, this means creating buildings that are energy-efficient and have a positive impact, using the most prudent selection of building materials. Bamboo is the primary focus due to its low carbon emissions. However, challenges arise in adapting bamboo as a modern building material, especially for high-rise buildings, which are a focus for the future. To address this, detailed studies and solutions are required in the field of architecture.

The initial step in this thesis is to conduct research and simulate the dimensioning of bamboo structures capable of withstanding the loads of high-rise buildings, comparing them to the role of concrete structures. This is to determine the maximum floor coefficient that whole round bamboo can support. Next is to conduct a preliminary design to determine the possible system, arrangement, and configuration of bamboo structures by analyzing the structure and calculating the compressive, tensile, and lateral strength values to obtain design criteria. The final stage of the process is the design, which applies the principles of high-rise buildings and the characteristics of bamboo, which are vulnerable to sunlight exposure, should not touch the ground, water, or humidity.

The final result of this thesis is that whole round bamboo is highly potential to be used as the main material for buildings, including medium-rise buildings, with considerations and studies on bamboo characteristics. The comparative research results indicate that bamboo structures can be the main structure for a maximum of 8 floors with an active space or usable area of about 85%. This design requires 10,150 bamboo poles with various dimensions.

This is a work of imagination but designed with a possibility approach to construction.

Title : Exploration of Bamboo Architectural Tectonics in the Design of a Middle Rise Mixed-Use Building in the City of Bandar Lampung
Name : Rahman Saputra
Program : Master of Architecture
Advisors:
Dr. Andry Widyowijatnoko
Dr. Lily Tambunan