Elora Hardy : A Bamboo fairy land artist
Ellora Hardy is the Founder and Creative Director of IBUKU who brought a new life to sustainable architecture. Born and Raised in Bali, Ellora was inspired by the highly skilled local craftsmen as well as her parents’ talented jewelry designs. She spent her14 years of adult life in the United States, where she received a degree in fine arts and then went to New York City to design prints for 'Donna Karan' that would walk the world’s runways. But In 2010, Ellora left her successful career in the fashion world to carry on the incredible work of the design learned from her hometown and her parents. Then she build team that created the world-renowned Green School in Bali, founded by her father John Hardy.
She brought up all of her childhood dream houses in reality that she used to sketch as a kid, the fairyland houses shaped as mushrooms with a lot of curves. She followed her culture and hobby, then transformed it to a space which can be mesmerized by the people living there. Her detailing in every part of the building is such an attraction for everyone like drop shaped doors, tunnel walkway to enter, bucket to kitchen top everything made of bamboo.
Accepting every nature of bamboo and treating the cons in the construction with bamboo, she took the bamboo construction to a whole new level. She uses 3 month old bamboo plants for construction which is the fastest growing plant in the world alongside having strength of concrete and tensile as steel.
Elora reconnected with the culture and landscape that she loves and today continues to cultivate Balinese artisans along with innovative designers and architects of IBUKU for the construction of bamboo structure which includes 60 percent labor cost and 40 percent material (just opposite of other constructions) with the goal of making Bali a global center for sustainable design and bringing those designs to the rest of the world.
Elora reconnected with the culture and landscape that she loves and today continues to cultivate Balinese artisans along with innovative designers and architects of IBUKU for the construction of bamboo structure which includes 60 percent labor cost and 40 percent material (just opposite of other constructions) with the goal of making Bali a global center for sustainable design and bringing those designs to the rest of the world.
"It's actually a wild grass. It grows on otherwise unproductive land -- deep ravines, mountainsides. It lives off of rainwater, spring water, sunlight, and of the 1,450 species of bamboo that grow across the world, we use just seven of them." says Elora in TED talk
"I don't think I realized this was so unusual at the time, and maybe I still haven't, because I'm still designing houses. This is a six-story bespoke home on the island of Bali. It's built almost entirely from bamboo. The living room overlooks the valley from the fourth floor. You enter the house by a bridge. It can get hot in the tropics, so we make big curving roofs to catch the breezes. But some rooms have tall windows to keep the air conditioning in and the bugs out. This room we left open. We made an air-conditioned, tented bed. And one client wanted a TV room in the corner of her living room. Boxing off an area with tall walls just didn't feel right, so instead, we made this giant woven pod." - Elora mentioned in ted talk series of eclipse house (magical house at sharma springs)
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