A one-hundred-feet long (33 meters) Bamboo Bridge is proposed by Michael McDonough, architect and designer. It features a polyten truss capable of supporting up to sixty times its own weight, and constructed of a unique high-strength Asian solid bamboo, steel cables, and connectors. Located in a temperate redwood rainforest near Mendocino, California, it is being built to demonstrate the structural and aesthetic capabilities of bamboo as an engineered, high-tech material.
Michael McDonough keeps finding new ways to use the grass that is stronger than steel.
McDonough has worked with bamboo for years. An atrium he designed for the Sheraton Rittenhouse Square Hotel in Philadelphia, combined live bamboo plants, bamboo flooring and furniture, and tiles made, improbably, of soybeans and recycled paper. An architect and a designer of furniture, interiors, flatware, and jewelry--"from the spoon to the city," as he likes to say, quoting Adolph Loos--McDonough makes objects and spaces that address big questions about design and the environment.
Links
McDonough's website: http://www.michaelmcdonough.com/projects/spec/bambridge.php4
Andrea Moed covered McDonough earlier: http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0698/ju98bamb.htm
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