The owner of this restaurant dreamed of having an outdoor Japanese Noodle restaurant. But he realized that it is not usual, and for preventing a great loss, he commissioned DSA+s to design an outdoor and temporary restaurant that hopefully would be easily built/assembled and also easily disassembled. Those requests directly inspired DSA+s to take Bamboo as the main material for the restaurant. They planned to use Bamboo for the whole building structure and building skin. But what kind of Bamboo, and how would it look like" They started to think about what is the basic function of a building" It is basically for protection. Protection from the sun, wind, rain, etc. Does it sound like the function of an umbrella also" The form of the restaurant basically was inspired by an umbrella, but a ?giant? and an ?unusual? umbrella. The ?giant? form would be functioned as a ?shelter?. A group of ?shelters? then become a ?building?, which hopefully could protect the restaurant guests from sun, wind, and rain. They make the ?giant? bamboo umbrella in different sizes (the width and the height) for arranging the ?giant? umbrella in such a way that each ?umbrella? could overlap with another to become a ?giant? roof. The ?giant? roof functioned as a shelter and also as a gutter for rain. The rainwater is directly distributed to the ground via a pipe in the middle of the structure, which is wrapped by Bamboo. Bamboo is a strong material and with a minor modification, it can d...