Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has created a 16-metre-high bamboo dome for Vedana Restaurant, which is constructed over a man-made lake dealing with the mountains in Ninh Binh Province.
Vedana Restaurant is the centrepiece of the Vedana Resort – a vacation advanced nestled in Cuc Phuong Nationwide Park, Vietnam’s largest nature reserve.
At 18 metres vast and 16 metres tall, the bamboo dome is the tallest but from Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Beforehand the follow designed a spiralling bamboo roof for a restaurant in Vinh.
The restaurant serves the resort’s 1,350 visitors and may also be made accessible for weddings.
Three concentric thatched rings kind a stepped profile harking back to conventional Vietnamese roofs.
Though it seems to be three separate gabled buildings, the dome is definitely a single construction made from 36 bamboo modules.
An oculus on the apex of the dome creates a shaft of sunshine by means of the centre, highlighting the flower-like sample created by the intersecting arcs of bamboo.
On the colonnaded base, the restaurant opens out onto the bogus lake. In addition to making for a reasonably view, the lake acts as a pure air conditioner throughout sizzling and humid summers, cooling the air because the water evaporates from its floor.
Rainwater and runoff from the mountains gather within the lake, which can be used to irrigate the timber and vegetation that develop across the resort – together with 15,000 blossom timber that have been planted specifically.
Timber in spherical planters are additionally set into the lake across the perimeter of Vedana Restaurant.
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has additionally finished the grasp plan for the remainder of the resort, which incorporates 135 villas, 5 “condotels” and eight bungalows on stilts over the lake.
The follow, which was based by Vo Trong Nghia in 2006, has additionally constructed a resort that appears like seaside huts for a small island off the Cat Ba Archipelago.
Pictures is by Hiroyuki Oki.
Mission credit:
Architect: Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Principal architect: Vo Trong Nghia
Design workforce: Nguyen Tat Dat, Nguyen Duc Trung, Tu Minh Dong, Nguyen Tan Thang