BAMBU STOOL
Motivation
The increasing effects of climate change are having an even more negative impact on domestic forests. The high summer temperatures combined with the strong storms in 2018 and 2022 have had a significant affect on the stability of many forests. At the same time, the increased demand for building materials and wood, with decreasing wood stocks, is causing high material and building costs. In addition, a tree needs many decades until it is fully grown and can be harvested for use as construction materials. Therefore, one of the most fast growing building material, bamboo, was used for this piece of furniture.
Relevance
Bamboo is not a wood but a grass. In addition to its sustainability characteristics, bamboo offers many wood-like qualities. For instance, in addition to its high hardness, due to its dense and short-fibered structure, bamboo has a low tendency to swell and warp. Besides its fast growing of up to 5 years till harvesting, bamboo has the advantage that bamboo forests are relatively easy to reforest and do not require pesticides or other insecticides. Through cultivation, sustainable farming and industrial processing in Europe, bamboo could play an increasing role in Western countries as well in an ecologically and socially sustainable contribution to the use of natural resources in the future and therefore be an alternative to hardwoods, tropical woods, aluminum or plastics.
Purpose
The stool was CNC milled entirely from a single bamboo construction board. This ensured optimal material usage and avoided large amounts of material waste. The stool can also be assembled and inserted into each other without further screwing or gluing. In addition, experiments were made with a hole pattern milled into the upper seat surface, for example, to tie seat cushions or other overlays to the stool.
