Indoor Bamboo Solutions in Kempegowda Airport | MOSO® Bamboo

MOSO^® develops and creates bamboo products for interior and exterior applications that meet the highest technical requirements and quality standards, enhance the beauty of applications, and are made from the sustainable, renewable resource MOSO^® Bamboo. MOSO^® Bamboo N-vision Round Beams were used in the Kempegowda International Airport Terminal 2, located in Bengaluru, India.

The terminal, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), reflects India’s third largest city, known as the Garden City and capital of technological innovation. Everywhere in and around the terminal, visitors experience nature. Both indoors and outdoors, ceilings and pillars are fitted with natural and innovative bamboo tubes, developed and supplied by MOSO^® International BV.

Considering the amount of material and the fact that the bamboo stems were to be used as a ceiling, the MOSO^® R&D team got to work to find alternatives for raw bamboo stems. Bamboo stems are never the same shape or quality and will crack if the temperature and humidity conditions fluctuate, making it impossible to achieve the desired fire and durability class without further processing of the material.

It soon became clear to MOSO^® that offering the right solution for this project would only be possible in cooperation with the Lindner Group, Europe, and following an extensive development process with partner factories in China, MOSO® developed laminated bamboo tubes that were recommended to the architects instead of bamboo stems.