Using 42,000 bamboo shoots,Vo Trong Nghia Architectshas created an impressive welcome center for theGrand World Phu Quoc.

Incredibly, all the bamboo is held together using only ropes and pins.

Within this precise grid, a lotus and drum have been sculpted using arches and domes.

Vo Trong Nghia Architects - Grand World Phu Quoc Welcome Center

This contrast of soft and hard edges gives an element of surprise to people entering the space.

Grand World Phu Quoc asked the firm to create something that embodied Vietnamese culture.

So two important cultural symbolsthe lotus and the bronze drumwere sculpted inside the structure.

Interior of Welcome Center at the Grand World Phu Quoc

The bamboo is held together using only ropes and pinsa feat of engineering.

Vo Trong Nghia Architects - Grand World Phu Quoc Welcome Center

Vo Trong Nghia Architects - Grand World Phu Quoc Welcome Center

Interior of Welcome Center at the Grand World Phu Quoc

Vo Trong Nghia Architects - Grand World Phu Quoc Welcome Center

Interior of Welcome Center at the Grand World Phu Quoc

Vo Trong Nghia Architects - Grand World Phu Quoc Welcome Center

Vo Trong Nghia Architects Bamboo Architecture

Vo Trong Nghia Architects - Grand World Phu Quoc Welcome Center