Studio Mumbai founder Bijoy Jain has revealed his design for this year's MPavilion, billed to become the largest bamboo structure ever built in Australia (+ movie).
The 12-metre-high structure will feature an awning-style roof canopy
Like many of Studio Mumbai's projects, the design is intended to embrace different types of handmade construction.

Related story: Burnt, recycled, sold: the fate of 2015's temporary pavilions

Its faceted roof will be created from karvi panels, which are made by mixing cow dung and earth. These will be tied to the bamboo structure, before being coated in a waterproof layer of white lime daub.
Its scaffolding-like structure will be built using bamboo
Jain will be the third architect to build an MPavilion since the programme launched in 2014, following the tree-canopy-inspired installation by British architect Amanda Levete and the folding structure by Australian architect Sean Godsell. The architect has spent six months working with a team of Indian craftsmen to construct a series of small and full-size prototypes in Mumbai.
Materials will be sourced from both India and Australia
The project is sponsored by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, an organisation set up by businesswoman and philanthropist Naomi Milgrom.
Milgrom founded the programme, so her foundation pledged to fund the first four pavilions. She chose Jain for the third edition because of his "deep concern for craft, sustainability and community...