Student Drawings
In the spring and summer of 2024, the Ambler Design Build Institute partnered with the Southeast Asian (SEA) Market at FDR Park in Philadelphia. The SEA Market is a “community of refugees and immigrant members who, for 35+ years, have cultivated an open community space all their own, providing a cultural hub for social gatherings, sharing of ethnic cuisines and business opportunities through vending.” The primary goal of this community-driven design collaboration was to imagine vendor stalls for the SEA Market's future home.
The Bamboo project used unprocessed, natural bamboo culms, a material with both cultural resonance and environmental function, as its main structure. These culms were design to be assembled into a diagrid using custom, 3-d printed joints at the structure’s base and top. The project explored the potential of rapid-prototyped, 3-D printed architectural elements to facilitate the use of natural materials with high carbon sequestration capacity.
Student participants: Matt Celeste, Ken Le, Jared Lista, Franco Reyna
Instructors: Assistant Professor Jeff Richards RA, Adjunct Professor Tim Barnes, Adjunct Professor Mario Gentile
Construction
Final Install