February 16-26, 2004
first edition of the Touring Pictures Exhibition

"GROWING BAMBOO TO HARVEST HOUSES" 

pictures of bamboo architectures from the world


UNIVERSITA' DI GENOVA 
Faculty of Architecture
Sala della Cisterna - Stradone Sant'Agostino 37
Genoa


Building with bamboo is a sustainable practice as it doesn't require polluting harvesting or energy-demanding treatments and doesn't harm our forests

Having completed the project carried out in Vergiate (Varese – Italy), consisting in the building of the first permanent structure for public use in Europe entirely made in colombian bamboo, the EMISSIONIZERO Association has finally realized a touring pictures exhibition on the use of bamboo as a high-tech performing natural material for a sustainable architecture.

The exhibition aims at framing that experience in an overview on the state of the art of the most significant contemporary architectures in bamboo, in order to spread the knowledge on its potentialities and promote its uses.

Visitors will have the possibility of accessing multimedia supports on bamboo building techniques kindly given by UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) and INBAR (International Network for Bamboo and Rattan) but also by various architects from Latin America. These precious materials will be accessed from a computer provided by the Faculty of Architecture of Genoa.

The pictures will show constructions in bamboo of amazing value both technical and aestethic, but also low-costs houses designed to give a shelter to the many homeless still populating the world, not only in the so called developing countries.

The pictures of the ZERI Pavilion at the EXPO 2000 in Hannover are provided by the colombian photographer Luis Camargo, others are offered by Gunter Pauli (ZERI Foundation), by Prof. Walter Liese (Hamburg), by Christoph Toenges (University of Aachen – Germany), by Eng. Pablo Van der Lugt (Rotterdam – The Netherlands) and by some of the best bamboo architects such as Jaime Botero, Hector Fabio Silva, Rafael Rojas, Jorg Stamm and others.


On Thursday, February the 19th, at 4.00 pm in Room AC, Neri braulin (bioclimatic architect, responsible of the Direction of Works of the EMISSIONIZERO Pavilion in Vergiate) and Valeria Chioetto (chair of EMISSIONIZERO) will conversate with Prof. Franz Prati – director of DIPARC – together with Prof. Rossana Raiteri and Adriano Magliocco (DIPARC – Genoa) and the audience, on the issues related to building with bamboo, with a specific focus on the European context.

Right before this first Edition of the Exhibition, EMISSIONIZERO is getting ready to participate to the World Bamboo Congress – New Delhi (India), to present the Bamboo Pavilion in Vergiate recently completed, whose construction was made possible by the hospitality and the support of the Municipality of Vergiate. 

http://www.worldbamboocongress.com

The project in Vergiate was started on September 09, 2002 with the first of a series of workshops and was terminated with the delivery to the Municipality of a 500 sqm pavilion made of culms imported from Colombia of Guadua Angustifolia.

The area, offered by the Council is located in the Parco del Ticino, and is traditionally used for outdoor fiestas in the summer season. 

The structure in bamboo regenerates the site conferring it a special relevance and visibility.

The overall project consisted in the organization and leading of a series of learning by doing laboratories addressed to students and professionists operating in the field of bioarchitecture, during which the notions and practices of the innovative building techniques for the use of a low impact material such as bamboo were proposed.

Images of the EMISSIONIZERO Pavilion are showed in the pictures exhibition


PROGETTO LISSONE S.P.A. supports this edition of the touring exhibition promoted by EMISSIONIZERO, an initiative of high social value that fits perfectly in the mission that since its very origins has distinguished the promotional atcivities of the Company aiming to enhance research and culture.
Progetto Lissone has, in one structure, the features of an whole territory that digs its own roots in timber manufacture and has been able to transform itself in order to adequately respond to any all need in the furniture field (www.progettolissone.it )

If you wish to host an edition of the Pictures Exhibition in your own town, please contact EMISSIONIZERO !

tel. 0039. 02. 39268320  or  mob. 0039. 340. 4123398  emissionizero@zeri.org