The Bamboo Restaurant is located within the Secrets Moxché Playa del Carmen hotel and offers a beautiful view of a water body. It is designed to complement one of the hotel’s dining establishments. The restaurant’s architectural covering is inspired by the indigenous vegetation of the area and its natural geometry. It is crafted based on the structural principles of leaves, which mirror the flat lamina and central support, providing petiole found in leaves and creating a biomimetic approach. This results in a unique, lightweight, and flexible architecture that gracefully envelops patrons while elegantly showcasing the inherent behavior of its structural elements.
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Bamboo Restaurant’s Design Concept
The Bamboo Restaurant’s foundation relies on specially designed metal components that were tailor-made for the project. These components serve as the primary anchors and are designed to look like the petioles of a plant. The anchors elegantly curve and interlock, forming beams and contours that define the organic shape of the canopy that flows seamlessly across the entire structure. Bamboo plays a vital role as a material in this architectural masterpiece, drawing on its unique properties to enable the creation of these distinctive beams for the Bamboo Restaurant. © The Polf
Emerging from these beams are logs arranged symmetrically and perpendicular, forming a canopy that mimics the functional role of leaf ribs. The columns serve as the ultima...