"The Arc at Green School Bali enters a new era for organic architecture, with its 19 meter span arches, interconnected by anticlastic gridshells. "We were creative and stubborn enough to research and develop the answers needed for the success of the project." Embarking on a design never before executed required some bravery and optimism," said Rowland Sauls The Arc at Green School, Project Manager, IBUKU. "The concepted structure for The Arc is totally unprecedented. "The result is a refined design with unparalleled beauty, which stands as a testament to IBUKU’s commitment to expanding horizons in architecture and design," said IBUKU. The structural innovation works with the beauty of space in a balanced manner. While innovating a new engineering method which is significant for its structural system, each gridshell appears to drape across the spaces between impossibly thin arches soaring overhead, giving a whimsy, intimacy and beauty to the space. The team has obtained this technique and engineering method after months of research and development.
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The IBUKU team has used the bamboo material but in an innovative way with tailor-made details to obtain a strong structure.ĭescribed as "the first building of its kind ever made", the Arc at Green School is made of a series of intersecting 14 meter tall bamboo arches spanning 19 meters, interconnected by anticlastic gridshells which derive their strength from curving in two opposite directions. Having a 12-year history of breaking boundaries and expanding horizons, the Arc is a new addition and an innovative structure in its history, raising the bar for sustainable education around the world. Green School Bali project was opened in September 2008 in collaboration with master craftsmen, architects, permaculturist, academics and philosophers. Green School concept was initiated in 2006 by life-long entrepreneurs, John and Cynthia Hardy, the team aimed to create a school that educates for sustainability. The new building, designed as a wellness space and gymnasium, is the newest structure on campus at the world-renowned Green School in Bali, Indonesia. IBUKU is known for its innovative structures and use of bamboo that brings a new vocabulary to bamboo architecture and the studio pushes the boundaries and offers new solutions by using this zero-carbon material. The new school is also designed for a reference in lightweight structures altogether. Named The Arc at Green School, the 760-square-metre school emerged as an "unprecedented structure" that uses an incredible way of bamboo material. IBUKU, composed of a team of young designers, architects and engineers, has used tensioned anticlastic gridshells with arches to create this drape-shaped looking structure for a new school in Kecamatan Abiansemal, Indonesia.
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