Archinect
Cangkai Wang

Cangkai Wang

Brooklyn, NY, US

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Plybamboo Prefabrication System

The Chinese are living in an age where they see huge developments which are just a few decades old being torn down. The dramatic process of urbanization has pulled this country into the crowded mega-cities while with tight budgets and the need for quick profits most architecture projects in the country are driven to compromise on quality and workmanship -- there are countless buildings that are pulling money today but forgotten tomorrow, eventually turning into piles of concrete waiting to be demolished in this endless urban sprawl.

Rather than duplicating featureless high-rise residential towers, we are trying to seek an appropriate way to house new comers and respond the surging mobility of people in contemporary China. Plybamboo, a cheap but enduring material which is originally used to manufacture concrete templates, is selected to fabricate inhabitable houses for the urban population. While providing a heat-insulated envelope with sufficient sunlight and ventilations, the Plybamboo structures are able to be carried and assembled on site, offering great flexibility in the rapidly shifted cityscapes.

 
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Status: Built
Location: Wuhan, CN
My Role: Designer