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"THE ROLE: BAMBOO MODEL-MAKING IN THE DIGITAL ERA"

3rd Edition, Personalized Version (Book+Coaching)

Pre-order period: Aug. 27 to Sept. 1, 2023

Shipping day: 28 Feb. 2024.

Available in Hard Copy only.

This time, there is no digital version. Why? Because this is only for old-school folks like me, who enjoy reading unique art material in our hands and choose to give the screen a break.

THE SMART BOOK TO

CREATE BAMBOO MODELS

WITH 'THE ROLE' BUILD REMARKABLE BAMBOO SCALE MODELS WITHOUT ANY SOPHISTICATED EQUIPMENT OR A Ph.D. IN ENGINEERING IN CHINA.

Only some people build bamboo models to their true potential. Why? Because they avoid all the typical mistakes:

  • Choosing the wrong material.

  • Bending the bamboo inaccurately.

  • Lacking a design process.

And more important than anything...

  • Underestimating the authentic influence of hand-made modeling.

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AS SEEN ON

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"THE ROLE: BAMBOO MODEL-MAKING IN THE DIGITAL ERA"

3rd Edition, Personalized Version (Book+Coaching)

Pre-order period: Aug. 27 to Sept. 1, 2023

Shipping day: 28 Feb. 2024.

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This 3rd Edition includes +330 pages of:

  • What material should you use for bamboo model-making

  • Powerful reasons to make bamboo models

  • How to bend bamboo for scaled models

  • How to make bamboo architectural visualizations

  • How to photograph your bamboo scaled models

  • How to go from concept to construction through bamboo model-making

  • How to structure your bamboo architectural design process

  • How to design with no experience

  • How should the new bamboo architecture look like today

  • How to defy gravity through bamboo model-making

  • 3 Types of bamboo structures

  • Brief introduction to bamboo architecture history

  • How to use hyperbolic paraboloids for bamboo architecture

  • How to build bamboo bridges

  • Five golden questions to ask your bamboo clients

  • How to sell bamboo architecture

  • How to use bamboo architectural symmetry

  • How to make remarkable bamboo work

  • 8 Quotes to inspire your bamboo architecture

  • 4 Myths and realities of bamboo as a building material

  • 4 Barriers for promoting bamboo structural design

  • What farming bamboo teaches us about growing business

  • 8 Little known bamboo facts

+ PLUS...

  • Alternative durability for bamboo structures

  • Eternal game of allowing damage and repair

  • Bamboo or metal for rural tourism

  • Critical Architectural Regionalism

  • Combine bamboo mechanics with digital tools

  • Bamboo stories in China

  • Processes of designers using the book

TAKE A LOOK INSIDE 

The Personalized Version of the book includes coaching one-to-one for nine months.

  • The "Personalized" version of the book (Full color, 20x20cm, hard cover) will be packaged with a set of one-to-one Zoom sessions with me, one hour per week for nine months. This version will not be offered to the general public. I don't have time to have coaching calls with everyone, but I wanted to give you the opportunity to get one-on-one attention if you needed it.

"THE ROLE: BAMBOO MODEL-MAKING IN THE DIGITAL ERA"

3rd Edition, Personalized Version.

Pre-order period: Aug. 27 to Sept. 1, 2023

Shipping day: 28 Feb. 2024.

WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK?

I have spent the last 18 years collecting the experience contained in this book, including long field trips, hundreds of errors, interaction with different species, and so on.

 

It has been challenging. And I packed it all into this physical volume, making all these years accessible to you for a tiny fraction of such costs.

A lot of people talk about bamboo architecture...

BUT FEW TALK ABOUT HOW TO CREATE IT 

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The information out there mostly shows bamboo projects without their 'secret' design processes. Many of those rely on the digital rendering.

Wang Shu (Pritzker 2012) said: "our memories associated with nature are reawakened through real personal experience, and it can be reflected only by freehand and model-making "... Then, why should we focus on digital tools only?.

I realized through years of practice that hand-made modeling is the primary tool to design bamboo architecture. But at the same time, I got obligated to learn its the role in the digital era.

Otherwise I wouldn't be able to design bamboo architecture in China for almost a decade...

I BELIEVE THERE ARE 3 THINGS TO FOCUS ON: 

If you are design/build bamboo architecture, then you need to take model-making as a priority, and then understand how to re-mix it digitally. 

PRELIMINARIES

You need solid basis: wise material's choice, a design process, creative mindset, business mindset, bamboo facts...

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MODELING TECHNIQUES

You need the proven methods: bending technique, bridges,  translational shapes, symmetry, asymmetry...

POST-PRODUCTION

You need to optimize it for an unforgettable first impression for your audience and for effective communication. 

THE IDEA IS TO SCALE UP FROM 1:50, 1:20, 1:10 TO 1:1

Even the real size construction is a scale model (1:1)

MY PERSONAL
GUARANTEE TO YOU

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I guarantee you will love it!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hi!, I'm Daniel Stamatis. I assist professional designers worldwide to create buildable structural concepts for bamboo architecture. No inspiration needed with an exact system. I usually work in one-to-one sessions or small groups. This book is the living testimony of the anecdotes and lessons of this practice. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do writing it.

Daniel Stamatis

Architectural Engineer, Ph.D.

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

华中科技大学

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"THE ROLE: BAMBOO MODEL-MAKING IN THE DIGITAL ERA"

3rd Edition, Personalized Version (Book + Coaching)

Pre-order period: Aug. 27 to Sept. 1, 2023

Shipping day: 28 Feb. 2024.

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