Apart from its obvious ornamental qualities, the bamboo functions as a protective railing and screen, admitting light and air, but reducing sound. Poles with a diameter of between 100 and 120mm were selected, leaving a 75mm gap. Each pole is fixed by an adjustable brace screwed to the flanges of the secondary steel structure. Set against the precisely engineered steel, the organic quality of the bamboo generates a delicious tension between nature and technology, casting flickering shadows around the parking floors.
from Architectural Review.
On the right is prison in Hamburg-Billwerder designed by the same architectural practice HPP. Apparently they are one of the largest and most successful in Germany.
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