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A bamboo display in Lagos aims to highlight the material’s status as a historic pillar of architecture and a necessary medium for future sustainable building.
The installation, unveiled last month by Lagos-based architecture firm HTL Africa, constructs a pavilion out of a network of bamboo scaffolds. It honors bamboo as “a renewable material, easy to be sourced locally and sturdy yet flexible enough to be the primary element” in multidimensional building, said James Inedu-George, founder of HTL Africa.
The display debuted at Ecobank’s Build and Design Expo and will be preserved as an outdoor reading room, HTL Africa said. Inedu-George doesn’t claim to be pushing for a reinvention of real estate development. But his bamboo tower “is scalable,” he said. “We are yet to see how grand it can get, but we will be happy to research and experiment until we know this,” he told Semafor Africa.
