Bamboo Swing Game

There are many ancient Chinese paintings with swings in them.

In China, there is a tradition of swinging during the Cold Food Festival or Tomb Sweeping Festival.

There are swing games all over the world and there are different ways to build them

Swing-like devices or games are also found in modern landscapes

- Designing a Bamboo Swing Game for Kids

- Create a scene playing on a bamboo swing

- Designing the structure and mechanism of a bamboo swing

Competition Requirements

1 Design Requirements： 

   Designing a bamboo structure installation with a swing game

2 sizes：Square site dimensions: within 5 x 5 meters and up to 4.5 meters in height

            Dimensions of the long site: within 3 x 8 m and up to 4.5 m in height

            It's not that the size has to be so large, it's just within the range

3 Requirements for use：There are some "swings" with a rocking function for tourists to play, in line with the scale of human use;

4 safety：It must meet the safety requirements for use (non-intense exercise), and the bamboo structure has good wind resistance;

5 material structure：The main structure is made of raw bamboo material, the structure is skin-integrated, combining the characteristics of bamboo, the structure and structure to explore and innovate, other materials can be used appropriately, but need to consider the connection between other materials and bamboo.；

6 experimental：Advancing the design through small-scale structured experiments and documenting the experimental process；

Participation Requirements

1. Group 6-8 peoples include 1-2 Professor.

2. The official language of the contest is English.

3. Students at undergraduate.

4. Subject architecture, Urban, Interior, or Product design 

5. Able to travel abroad alone.

The Schedule  in Domestic contest in Lao

• 23/8-3/09/2023  Register

• 18/9/2023 Submit Work ( First round )

• 25/9/2023 Announcement First round

• 16/10/2023 Submit Work( Final round )

• (Date will Announcement Later) /10/2023 Presentation final competition in Lao PDR.

• 27/10-8/12/2023 Preparing for presentation in China.

• 10/12/2023 Submit Presentation and participated  China.

Submit First Round 

Deadline on  18  September 2023 for Round 1

1.   File Three  Size A3  Board in PDF  (29.7 cm x 42. cm) 

2. Entries must include your name and University on the board. 

3.  Submit Project online on Email:  (Admin.far@nuol.edu.la)

Submit Final in Laos

Deadline on  16 October 2023 for Final

1.  File  Two Size A1  horizontal Presentation Board in PDF  (59.4 cm x 84.1 cm) 

2.  Print Two  Size A1  horizontal Presentation Board (59.4 x 84.1 cm)

3. Modelling Size A1 (59.4 cm x 84.1 cm)

4.  Submit Project online on Email :  (Admin.far@nuol.edu.la)

Submit Final in China

Deadline on  10 December 2023 

1. 1:1 physical construction (at Nansha Waterbird World)

1:10 miniatures + structural experimental models (if available)

3. Exhibition board (1 vertical long board, to be notified again according to the actual situation)

4. Multimedia video (1-2 minutes, subtitles in English )

More Information Contact: Admin.far@nuol.edu.la