Sankofa Community Bamboo Greenhouse

Student-Driven Design-Build Project for Sankofa Village Community Farm in Homewood, Pittsburgh, PA

Re-Purposing Pavilion Structure

Adapting the existing NOMAS Bamboo Pavilion for Spring Carnival 2023 into a Community Greenhouse for the Homewood community in Pittsburgh, gives this pavilion structure a ‘second life’. Students design, build and resolve real life issues with regards to design, material systems, prototyping and construction.

Lead Designer: Patrick Zheng, Tina Han

Project Manager: Clover Chau

Renders: Michael Bi

Student Team: Andrew Wang, Nadia Cho, Esha Shah, Xuze Shao, Ben Hao, Amika Sono, Harrison Marx-Ascencios

Instructor: Vicky Achnani

Guide to Instructor and Student team : Omar Khan , Laura Garofalo

Structural Consultant: John Schneider, Gateway Engineers

Permits advisory: Utkarsh Ghildyal, CMU Campus Design