The Arc: bamboo as low-carbon structural material

The Arc, designed in collaboration with Ibuku and Jorg Stamm, is Atelier One’s most successful implementation of structural bamboo to date, featuring 23m spanning arches connected by structurally contributing saddle surfaces.
 
Recognised by IStructE as the joint winner of the Supreme Award for Structural Engineering Excellence 2022, The Arc demonstrates how a natural material can be proven for structural use and how form-active structures can improve material efficiency.
 
Watch this lecture to discover how structural bamboo, an underutilised but burgeoning structural material, can be pivotal in reducing carbon in construction and to hear the key considerations to be made when using it.