Bamboo Joints Review on the Millennium Bridge in Green School Bali

Diego Puja Mring Gusti ,Han Xiaofeng

doi:10.7176/ads/91-04

Abstract

The Millennium Bridge in Green School Bali is a bamboo bridge building which is a unique building. This structure has local cultural value and has sustainable material. Bamboo, as its material, has been used in traditional way, but become popular lately according with sustainable issue nowadays. In general, this descriptive analytical research will evaluate the bamboo design of The Millennium bridge in The Green School Bali, especially focusing on the joints as constructional material, whether it has already conformed to the literature or not and seek the innovation of the architect for this matter. The analysis will be carried out after surveying the existing state in the form of the photos and making computer model of the researched object, then analyzing the form of the bridge. Keywords: The Millennium bridge, Bamboo bridge, Bamboo, Sustainable material, Green School Bali. DOI: 10.7176/ADS/91-04 Publication date: March 31 st 2021

Highlights

The Millennium bridge is located inside of the Green School Bali, while The Green School Bali itself, is located in Sibang Kaja Street, Banjar Saren, Abiansemal, Badung district, Bali Island, Indonesia. This facility can be categorized as international school that dedicates to nature, which mean a school focusing on the topic of sustainability and eco-friendly mindset
This school was built by John Hardy and Cynthia Hardy, and they become the founder of this eco-friendly school
The Millennium bridge is the largest bamboo bridge in Asia so far, a kind of wide span construction which has a span of 23 meters with an impressive Minangkabau inspired roof

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Introduction

The Millennium bridge is located inside of the Green School Bali, while The Green School Bali itself, is located in Sibang Kaja Street, Banjar Saren, Abiansemal, Badung district, Bali Island, Indonesia. The joint G is a penetrated horizontal bamboo which has smaller dimension than the vertical part and has mortise-tenon too. As the main structure of the bridge is an arch with bamboo material that contains of some bamboo culms, this arch is bended for 23 meters span findings that comes in The Millennium Bridge in Bali, the joints contain of lots of types.

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