Simón Velez
Three-aisled hall made of bamboo in Pereira , Colombia, as a temporary church space during the restoration of the Catholic cathedral, which was damaged in the 1999 earthquake.
Simón Vélez (born February 2, 1949 in Manizales ) is a Colombian architect.
From 1968 to 1975 he studied architecture and art at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá . He has been using bamboo as a building material since the mid-1980s . He was invited by the Vitra Design Museum and Center Georges Pompidou .
For EXPO 2000 , Vélez designed the ZERI pavilion (zero emission research initiative) with a diameter of 40 meters and a height of 17 meters. He is known as the "Pope of Bamboo Architecture".
With the Nomadic Museum (January - April 2008 in Mexico City) he designed the largest bamboo structure.
Works
- Grow your own house. Simon Velez and Bamboo Architecture. Vitra Design Museum, 2013 (English / German)
Awards
In 2009 Simón Vélez received the Great Prince Claus Prize of the Netherlands, endowed with € 100,000 .
literature
- Humberto Rodríguez-Camilloni: Rethinking Bamboo Architecture as a Sustainable Alternative for Developing Countries: Juvenal Baracco and Simón Vélez (PDF). In: Karl-Eugen Kurrer , Werner Lorenz , Volker Wetzk (eds.): Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Construction History . Neunplus, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-936033-31-1 , pp. 1243-1252.
Web links
Commons : Simón Vélez - collection of images, videos and audio files
- http://bambus.rwth-aachen.de/de/PDF-Files/ZERI%20Pavillon%20EXPO%202000%20-%20Version%203.pdf (PDF file; 1.49 MB)
- http://bambus.rwth-aachen.de/de/PDF-Files/Moderne%20Bambusarchitektur.pdf (PDF file; 1.52 MB)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vélez, Simón |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Colombian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manizales |