ivory coast shell

The IVORY COAST SHELL was developed through remote collaboration at Bamboo Pure in Bali, Indonesia. Spearheaded by Camilla Mafra and scrutinised by the Bamboo Pure structural team, the project took shape.

My role involved designing a bamboo gridshell to envelop a 50-square-meter habitation, drawing insights from client references, technical schematics, and an assemblage manual. The overarching aim was to devise a shell that could be prefabricated in Bali and then shipped to the Ivory Coast.

design process
pop up gridshell: plugin kangaroo 2 (grasshopper)
main and mid-structural arches: Bamboo Dendrocalamus Aspe
gridshell: Bamboo Dendrocalamus Asper Stripe
roof structure: lidi bundle (Bamboo Petung Blonde), gridshell support beam and overhang grid (Bamboo Dendrocalamus Asper Stripe)
roof: pelupuh (bamboo shingles)
technical schematics
plan
elevation 1
section AA

Date: March-August 2023
Location: remote