A case Study in bamboo construction education: The experience of the Sino-Italian “Bamboo #Pavillon Contest_A contest for a Pavilion in Bamboo Technology”

The manuscript summarizes the experience of the Sino-Italian “Bamboo #Pavillon Con-test_A contest for a Pavilion in Bamboo Technology” held between the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria (Italy) and the College of Civil Engineering of Nanjing Tech University (China) in 2018. The contest for the pavilion to be realized with bamboo technology was divided into three phases. The first one was aimed at identifying the best project idea among those presented from students of Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria. The second phase was the technical design and construction of the bamboo pa-vilion that was done by the students of Nanjing Tech University. The last phase was the closing ceremony of the contest held at the Zhejiang University - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Institute. The goal is the design of an exhibition pavilion to be realized with bamboo structures, such as GluBam, an eco-sustainable building material, light and flexible, solid and resistant. The bamboo pavilion was realized and completed during the summer of 2018 and now it’s a good example of a temporary structure made of engi-neered bamboo.