About Simón Vélez Bamboo
A system built from the inside of a Simón Vélez building: the page is golden guadua cane, the ink is the dark brown of aged culms and joint shadow, and the accents are terracotta roof tile, copper flashing and grey cement.
Layouts are organised like his sections rather than his elevations — a heavy roof band overhanging the content, panels that read as canes laid side by side, and joints drawn openly as steel plates bolted through mortar-filled nodes.
- Origin
- Manizales and Bogotá, Colombia
- Era
- 1980s–now; technique matured 1980s–1990s, internationally visible with the ZERI Pavilion at Expo 2000 Hannover
- Key figures
- Simón Vélez · Marcelo Villegas · Gunter Pauli
- Movements
- Latin American critical regionalism · Colombian bahareque building tradition · Bamboo and earth structural engineering
Simón Vélez Bamboo design spec
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Source Serif 4Body
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