May 5-13 - 2004
third edition of the Travelling Pictures Exhibition

“GROWING BAMBOO TO HARVEST HOUSES”
pictures of bamboo architectures from the world

POLITECNICO DI TORINO - Italy
Second Faculty of Architecture

Department "Casa-Città"
CISDA - Centro Interdipartimentale dei Servizi Didattici della Facoltà di Architettura
LATEC - Laboratorio Tecnologico Didattico di Autocostruzione
Centro di Ricerca e Documentazione in "Tecnologia, Architettura e Città nei Paesi in Via di Sviluppo"

The Travelling Pictures Exhibition closed in Racconigi (Cuneo - Italy) has stopped off in Torino.

We have asked to Nuccia Maritano Comoglio, professor at the Politecnico of Torino who has promoted the third edition at the II Faculty of Architecture where she teaches, to comment the meaning of this initiative:

<<  Bamboo is largely used in the so called developing countries. Its widespread and sustainable production makes it an amazingly interesting material for these countries. On the other hand, the technical and scientific knowledge on bamboo's structural behaviour and durability are still very young.

The planning effort required for the developing countries habitat is inversely proportional to the economic resources available. When resources are limited, a lot of research and a lot of design are needed.

Studies carried out at the Post Graduate School in “Technology, Architecture and Town in the developing countries” of the Politecnico of Torino have indentified a research field in the technological hybridization joining local and simple materials/technologies (having a low technological content) with advances or even extremely advanced technologies used in small quantity and/or in the form of advances knowledge (calculation, real time controls with even extremely advanced equipments) in order to achieve a new generation of innovative and highly performing materials/technologies. 

Researching on bamboo in order to optimize its uses, implies the adoption of this methodological approach. As a matter of fact bamboo is a local low cost material, suitable to hybridation with even highly sophisticated junctions at the designing level but easily put in place and, where needed, much advanced calculation and control methods.

This explains the interest in hosting at our Faculty of Architecture the Pictures Exhibition GROWING BAMBOO TO HARVEST HOUSES - pictures of bamboo architectures from the world, promoted and organized by the EMISSIONIZERO Association, which is as of today the point of reference in Italy for its knowledge on bamboo achieved through the building and training experience of the Vergiate Pavilion, its participation to international meetings and its wide documentation so far gathered. >>

Prof. Nuccia Maritano Comoglio

On May 5 at 3.00 pm

Valeria Chioetto and Neri Braulin have been invited to the opening meeting of the edition in Torino of the Pictures Exhibition, to present the successful outcomes of experience made so far by EMISSIONIZERO and to offer a scenic outline on the most relevant aspects of bamboo building.

The seminar will be held at the Aula Audiovisivi of the Castello del Valentino ,39 Viale Mattioli. The meeting is open: everybody is invited to participate.

The pictures displayed at the Exhibition show buildings in bamboo of high value at both technical and aesthetic levels, but also low-cost realizations, designed and implemented to give shelter to the many homeless who still populate the world, not only in the so called developing countries.

Once more, the visitor will have access to multimedia materials regarding bamboo building techniques made available by UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) and INBAR (International Network for Bamboo and Rattan) but also - as a personal favour - by various architects from Latin America and Asia.

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