Decorative bamboo screens enclose the Zero Carbon Cultural Centre, a giant pavilion in Makli built by local people together with architect Yasmeen Lari's Heritage Foundation of Pakistan organisation.
The Zero Carbon Cultural Centre serves as a community centre and social space for people living in poor and marginalised communities in the town, which is located in southern Pakistan.
It was designed by the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan specifically to host hands-on workshops for locals to strengthen their skills and help them live better-quality lives.
The Zero Carbon Cultural Centre is a bamboo pavilion in Makli
The Zero Carbon Cultural Centre is being showcased today as part of Lari's guest editorship for Dezeen 15 ? an online festival celebrating Dezeen's fifteenth birthday. As part of the event, Lari, who is the co-founder of the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan, will present her manifesto for "a humanistic, inclusive architecture that is driven by environmental considerations" in a live interview with Dezeen's editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs.
According to the architect, the centre is the biggest bamboo structure in Pakistan and one of the largest in the world.
It was completed in 2017 on a 1.6-hectare site, chosen for its proximity to the poor communities in the shadow of the Makli Necropolis ? a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is home to clusters of ancient funerary monuments.
It is the centrepiece of a 1.6-hectare campus
The pavilion takes the form of a large h...