The Meinan Construction Workshop is a 2-month research, design and construction project to provide 4 temporary pavilions for a youth hostel operating in Meinan Village, Guangdong.
Each pavilion of approximately 3m x 3m was designed as a resting place for the villagers in the hot summer, an outdoor venue where the locals and visitors of the hostel would get together. The research stage of the project was conducted by few selected students to understand as much about bamboo construction as possible - material properties, manufacturing process, construction details, etc. Initial pavilion design and full scale construction mock up was done in the design stage to prepare for the 2-week construction workshop where 30 HKDI students, 2 tutors and 3 guest tutors from New York, London and Tokyo travelled to the village to construct the pavilions in August 2016.
