Kengo Kuma combines bamboo with carbon fibre to create "material for the future"

Bamboo and carbon fibre can be used together to build earthquake-proof architecture, says Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, whose Bamboo Ring is installed at the V&A for London Design Festival.
Kuma has combined the two materials to create an installation in the John Madejski Garden at the V&A for this year's London Design Festival.
Called Bamboo Ring, the structure shows how rings of bamboo and carbon fibre can be woven together to create extremely strong, self-supporting structures.Speaki