Mossô: mobiliário de bambu laminado colado

Abstract

In the production of contemporary furniture, a topic of great importance for this achievement is sustainability. The concept of sustainability has changed over the past few decades due to projections of future impacts due to the large population and industrial increase, it was necessary to rethink the forms of production, consumption habits in order to reduce the impacts caused to the environment. Being a radical change in habits to the point of presenting immediate responses almost impossible, one must seek practical solutions that seek to cause small changes so that these micro-transformations become macro-transformations. Our current culture is based on consumerism. Manzini says that the idea of ​​living well consuming less resources is opposed to the current model that has prevailed in industrial society. As such, it is impossible to make a significant leap around sustainability with current ideals and methods. Design in all its scope must offer solutions that meet daily demands, having the role of solving the problems presented to it always based on the sustainable concept, seeking a systemic transformation of consumption and disposal habits. In this sense, we must also understand these current consumption habits to work concepts in order to reduce the impact caused by unsustainable production. In order to employ these concepts, thinking about the production of contemporary furniture, which mostly uses wood and its derivatives as the main material for its manufacture, the present work presents systemically, Bamboo as a more sustainable alternative in relation to its use. of wood. Due to factors that will be addressed during this work, the nomenclature given by many scholars today to the plant as the wood of the future is justified. To this end, it will also be presented a way of processing bamboo in the manufacture of panels using a process similar to those already used in wood. At the end of the bibliographic search, there is a line of furniture made of Glued Laminated Bamboo resulting in the prototyping of one of the products of the line showing the execution easily adapted from the equipment already available for wood, since the harvesting of the material, passing through the production of the plates until the execution of the final product.