Salandanan of Architecture wins award in World Bamboo Design Contest in Korea

Christian Salandanan, an alumnus of the College of Architecture, won over 125 other contestants in order to bag the “Encouragement Award” in the World Bamboo Design Contest, a competition under the 10th World Bamboo Congress recently concluded in Damyang, South Korea.

Salandanan’s work proposed a government-initiated project that will utilize bamboo in the construction industry. This project was actually anchored on his undergraduate thesis in UST.

This work has already reaped several awards for Salandanan, like the “Thesis of the Year” award in the First National Architectural Thesis Competition (April 2015), and the “Archi-World Academy Awards 2” from Munich, Germany (February 2015).

First reported in The Varsitarian: http://varsitarian.net/breaking_news/20150921/architecture_alumnus_wins_in_intl_bamboo_contest