It all start with a trip and a sketch...
Travelling through Thailand, the recurring image wasn't a building — it was a shadow. People gathered under temple eaves, market awnings, and roadside trees, using shade the way other cultures use furniture: as the organizing device for a space.
My Request to Nano Banana was simply:
Use the first sketch image to generate a wide-format watercolor-style rendering similar to the second image. The rendering depicts an exterior pavilion in Bangkok, Thailand, set in a vibrant, dense residential area. The pavilion structure is made of bamboo and teak wood; the floor is made of cool grey clay bricks. There is a teak wood bench in the center of this pavilion with a small garden behind it. The rendering is set at sunset, and the camera angle is at eye level.
Design Narrative
Walk onto The Fields at midday and the sun is the only thing everyone is negotiating with. Wonderfruit has always understood this — its stages and shelters are not backdrops, they are infrastructure dressed as art. The Shaded Commons is built for that exact instinct.
Assisted by firefly in photoshop. I selected area needed to be improved and use firefly to general image. For example, I highlights the arch of this structure and asks firefly to add festival lighting.
Inspired
Drawn directly from a simple observation made travelling through Thailand: public life happens in the shade. Markets, rest, conversation, and refuge from the heat all cluster wherever cover exists — and this design proposes that cover as the festival's next piece of social infrastructure, not as a discrete art object.
Use Nano Banana, I asks it to change the environment setting to twilight time and change a group of people with some of them walking dog and playing with their children
Construction Narrative
The structure is a series of bamboo arches, bent and bundled for strength, using a hybrid connection system — bolted steel at primary load points, traditional rope lashing everywhere else. It is built from a genuinely carbon-negative material harvested on a 3–5 year cycle, erected quickly with low-skill labor, and designed from the outset as a repeatable kit of parts rather than a one-off form.
After constructing a 3D model with Hunyuan 3D Pro, I ask Nano Banana to create a construction diagram based on the previous information given.
Implementation
The structure leverages bamboo's strong outer fibers in a bent-bundle arch, connected through a deliberate hybrid of two joining traditions:
• Primary load nodes (base connections, ring and apex joints) use bolted steel plate connectors — this is what allows a structural engineer to certify the frame for wind and live loads, and gives the structure a mechanical fallback that doesn't rely on lashing tension alone.
• Secondary members and bracing use traditional rope and coir lashing — keeping the craft of the structure visible, keeping it repairable by hand without specialized tools, and keeping the visual language rooted in Southeast Asian bamboo-building tradition rather than industrial fastening.
I ask Nano Banana to create a implementation diagram showing the locations and settings where this structure can be installed.
Material Board
Every material choice does double duty. The bamboo is carbon-negative before it's even harvested. The joinery is honest — bolted steel where an engineer needs to certify it, hand-lashed rope everywhere craft can speak for itself. The whole frame goes up fast, with local labor, with minimal disruption to the land it sits on. And because it's designed as a kit of parts, not a fixed form, it doesn't end its life when the festival does — it can scale, relocate, and repeat in the next community that needs it.
With nano Banana, I asked it to create a material mood board with the images of material, short description of each material and I also uploaded the elevation it previously produced to include in this material board