Bamboo Pavilion Public Bathroom

Bamboo Pavilion Public Bathroom
by Manuel Lap Yan Lam

• Awarded April 15, 2022
• CLIENT: the Volks Design & Research Consulting Ltd.
• 6.063

The Bamboo Pavilion is a public renovation project that is designed to subvert the perception of a typical public bathroom in Macau, which is dirty, wet and smelly. The original facility was an enclosed building setting apart from the natural surroundings. The Bamboo Pavilion, a new design, is built on top of the existing structure and foundation. The idea is to reconnect the broken link between culture, human and nature in a public facility by reorganizing the plan to enhance functionalities and by applying bamboo-like construction tectonics to correspond with its natural surroundings.