IBUKU has pioneered a new design vocabulary, making our own rules along the way and offering new solutions to the world through our journey. Today, we offer yet another design solution, an unprecedented structure which is not only an incredible piece of bamboo architecture, but…
IBUKU receives first award for Iconic Building categories from Global Architecture & Design Awards 2021. Publication September 2021
The word “treehouse” evokes something cobbled together with bent nails, splintered boards, and chewing gum. Childlike ambition manifested into reality. But for Indonesian design team IBUKU, those ambitions can reach six stories, include four bedrooms, with giant roofs that catch the breeze and an extensive…
Informed by the way the human ribcage is held in place by the tension from the surrounding muscles and skin, architecture studio Ibuku created a self-supporting roof made entirely from bamboo for the gymnasium of Bali’s Green School. Architecture studio Ibuku has completed The Arc…
Indonesian architecture firm Ibuku has collaborated with bamboo construction expert Jörg Stamm and structural engineering company Atelier One to build the Arc, an intricate bamboo structure at the well-known Green School in Bali, Indonesia. The Arc comprises a series of intersecting 14-metre-tall bamboo arches joined…
Draping roof tops intricate bamboo structure by IBUKU for Green School in Bali, Indonesia Design firm IBUKU has collaborated with Jörg Stamm and Atelier One to form ‘the arc’, an intricate bamboo structure emerging as the latest addition to the campus of the world-renowned Green…
IBUKU has pioneered a new design vocabulary, making our own rules along the way, and offering new solutions to the world through our journey. Today, we offer yet another design solution, an unprecedented structure which is not only an incredible piece of bamboo architecture, but…
Elora Hardy – It’s not going to look the way people imagine because it hasn’t been imagined yet Talking about the future – about creating a world we haven’t yet seen and a future that hasn’t yet been imagined. We’re talking about outside the box…
Elora Hardy – Creating Sustainable Bamboo Architecture In Bali. Elora Hardy (IG: @eloradora) is the Founder and Creative Director of IBUKU. Raised on the beautiful island of Bali, Elora was inspired by the highly skilled local craftsmen as well as by the talented jewelry designs of…
Bamboo Talks & Walks – Elora Hardy & Kate Druhan “There’s nothing more beautiful than the most beautiful forest in the world. But we can’t underestimate what it does to the human mind to recognize a space that humans created, which still feels tied back…
Speak with Elora Hardy, founder of Bali based innovative design firm Ibuku, who work primarily with Bamboo. Touching on concepts such as the Industrial Revolution and its impacts on both the environment and systemised production, this episode explores some of the thinking behind designing and…
From the Delivering Asia Communications and C9 Hotelworks event Design Re-Invention – Volume 8 The Big Bamboo – Designing and Operating Sustainable Resorts. No resort ever landed on the Conde Nast Hot List being ordinary. The Big Bamboo will take us on an extraordinary journey.…
Charlie Paton and Elora Hardy are Royal Designers whose innovations in architecture and agriculture are changing the world. Sit in on a unique online conversation as they meet, exchange notes and consider the contribution design can make to sustainable development. Watch here: https://youtu.be/BhZAlPi50w4 Publication at…
Elora is the Founder and Creative Director of IBUKU. Raised in Bali, Elora was inspired by the highly skilled local craftsmen as well as her parents’ talented jewelry designs. She spent 14 years of her young adult life in the United States, where she received…
Please check out Elora’s work at IBUKU.com as well as her inspiring TED Talk. She was also just featured on Apple TV’s new HOME series. View the trailer here, or check it out on Apple TV. You can also see her work on instagram @ibukubaliIf…
“The birth of IBUKU was inspired by the hope for the future we felt by seeing Heart of School. That fact that humans could make a space that lets you feel this way, out of renewable materials like bamboo, was proof of concept for us…
CLAD Global coverage of the Hon RDI status awarded to Elora Hardy. Elora Hardy has been made an Honorary Royal Designer pioneering work in architectural design, in particular for the design and build of bamboo structures. Print publication, March 2020
IBUKU in Attitude Interior Design Magazine, January 2020 edition. The desire to create inspiring spaces and experiences, in perfect communion with nature, encouraged her to found the IBUKU architecture studio. Print Publication, January 2020
“Elora Hardy, Founded IBUKU, a team of designers, architects and engineers who are developing a new design vocabulary for building (and designing furniture) with bamboo that works in harmony with nature.” Print Publication, November 2019
Moon House and Copper House in Green Building Magazine, December 2019 Print Publication, December 2019
“Built 14 years ago, this whimsical jungle compound remains a benchmark for sustainable construction, transforming light-on-the-land living—a wastewater garden, a vegetation-filtered pool—into an effortless communion with nature. One of the family’s latest wonders is the bamboo Aura house (shown) in the Green Village. Designed by…
The new age of bamboo construction is ushering in the transformation of the humble tropical plant from a decorative element to a sustainable structural material of the future. IBUKU featured in habitusliving, April 2019 Online publication at April 2019
Tropical Paradise. Ananda House at Green Village, one of several villas designed by Elora Hardy’s studio, IBUKU. Print Publication at February 2019
IBUKU’s Eclipse House featured on the front page of Elle Decor. Bali Wood. Designer Elora Hardy makes inventive use of the Indonesian island’s ubiquitous building material – bamboo – for a three story villa perched on a slope in the heart of the jungle. Print…
A feature on Aura House at Green Village in Elle Indonesia. Desain yang menjungjung tinggi sustainability ditawarkan oleh Elora Hardy, bersama IBUKU studio lewat pendekatan kekayaan alam Bali. Print Publication at April 2019
