Material exploration with Bamboo
Product design | Material Exploration | Workshop skills |
The objective was to explore the capablities of the material, And the combining two materials and their properties
In this case the elastic nature of the bamboo was explored and combined with the plasticity property of metal
PROCESS
Bamboo is a flexible and has elastic material property
To keep the Bamboo in bent state ,several methods like Heat bend ,using water etc
Elastic
The slits allow the bamboo to be bent without the need of heat or any method
the metal wires were added to keep the slits from being exerted and avoids breakage
Plastic
The copper rod inside allows the bamboo to remain in the bent position
The malleable nature of copper allows to bend the tube in desired position, also because of the conducting nature ,it could be used of various other applications such as power transmission etc
Copper tube
Foam
Modules can be joint and extended further
