This creates a thin but strong encasement for the lungs.
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Within a human ribcage, a series of ribs working in compression are held in place by a tensioned flexible layer of muscle and skin. The Arc employs one of nature’s greatest strategies for creating large spaces with minimal structure.
It is a new community wellness space and gymnasium for the extraordinary campus, in collaboration with Jorg Stamm and Atelier One." - Elora Hardy Creative Director, IBUKU "The Arc at Green School Bali enters a new era for organic architecture, with its 19 meter span arches, interconnected by anticlastic gridshells. We were creative and stubborn enough to research and develop the answers needed for the success of the project." - Rowland Sauls The Arc at Green School - Project Manager, IBUKU Embarking on a design never before executed required some bravery and optimism. "The concepted structure for The Arc is totally unprecedented. The result is a refined design with unparalleled beauty, which stands as a testament to IBUKU’s commitment to expanding horizons in architecture and design The Arc is a feat of engineering it required months of research and development and fine tuning of tailor-made details. The first building of its kind ever made, The Arc at Green School is built from a series of intersecting 14 meter tall bamboo arches spanning 19 meters, interconnected by anticlastic gridshells which derive their strength from curving in two opposite directions. The school has a 12 year history of breaking boundaries and expanding horizons and the Arc is the newest benchmark in that history, raising the bar for sustainable education around the world. The Arc is the newest building on campus at the world-renowned Green School in Bali, Indonesia. Today, we offer yet another design solution, an unprecedented structure which is not only an incredible piece of bamboo architecture, but will serve as a reference in lightweight structures altogether. IBUKU has pioneered a new design vocabulary, making our own rules along the way, and offering new solutions to the world through our journey.