When did cars have to fit a vertical world?
ROOT OF BANATTI
Filipino: to keep at it DIG DEEPFLOOR ITDRIVEN BY HEART AND INTENT
BANATRECOGNIZE IT?
WHAT WE BANAT
WHY WHERE AND
WITH WHOM MATTERS
What brought you here?
BANATTI. A Multidisciplinary design practice founded by Christopher Paris Lacson, exploring transportation architecture, mobility systems, industrial design, material innovation and architectural concepts.
Its work includes the Green Falcon, a bamboo-bodied electric motorcycle developed into a physical prototype, alongside original design studies and proposals spanning land, sea and air.
Before asking what we can make, perhaps we should ask why.
BE CAUSE explores the intentions behind what we choose to create. What asks to be? What deserves our attention? And what responsibilities come with bringing something into the world?
Not everything possible needs to be made.
What we choose to do, why we do it, and who or what it may affect matter.
To BE CAUSE is to recognize that what we create has consequences beyond ourselves.
NATURE CAME FIRSTAND IT IS WHERE WE LIVE
Her proven wisdom
Our intelligence and imagination…
“What asks to be?
For whom? For what?”
PURPOSE SETS DIRECTION
OUR BANAT PROPELS
What we create with Nature must belong within it
We answer to those who inherit what we set in motion
WISDOM IN HARMONY WITH NATURETRANSPORTS LIFE RESPONSIBLY
The Whale Pod
What if we worked with Nature’s submarines—whales—
Inside the Whisper
Ladies and gentlemen, we will be cruising at a depth of…
Then, Land Appeared
It’s not how much horsepower, it’s how you use it
A Horse Named “Hataw”
One Horse Powered
HUMAN X BICYCLE HORSE X BANATTI
How fast would one horse power go?
It’s not a bird It’s not a plane It’s an Air Turtle
Our UFOUSEFUL FLYING OBJECT
MAV LEV Monocoque Aerostatic Vehicle Levitates
@ Times Square → Departs 11:00
An Ancient Roman Phrase for “Impossible”
“TESTUDO VOLAT, THE TORTOISE FLIES”
When a “turtle” flies in the face of conventions
Architecture explores the relationships between people, place, materials and movement.
An idea about mining opens one possibility. The landscape of Sipalay inspires another. In Ugong, bamboo, rivers and heritage suggest different ways of building and moving.
Each begins differently. Each asks what might become possible.
These are explorations of what could be, shaped by the relationships between nature, people and the places we inhabit.
WHAT’S NEEDED
ASKING TO BE…
NATURE TEACHES
We Test Distill Apply
DESIGN RESOLVES
Relationships determine
Materials shape
ARCHITECTURE CONDUCTS
RELATIONSHIPS TRANSPORTED
Scale and manifestation change
This discipline remains
HONOR RESPECT INTEGRITY
What must carry forward
The Hangar is where ideas begin to take form.
From the Green Falcon, built and ridden, to vehicles, structures and systems yet to be realized, each manifestation explores a different possibility.
Some have taken physical form. Others remain drawings, studies and proposals. All begin with questions about materials, movement, purpose and the relationships they serve.
Here, imagination meets the work of making.
Formation before position.
LAND SEA AIRNature’s lessons and expressionsHuman wisdom and imaginationIdeas and possibilitiesARCHITECTURE RESOLVED INTOTRANSPORTERSBANAT IN MOTION
It began with “Bamboo.” For what?
A coffee-stained sketch, a café racer.
A Falcon. Electric. Silent. Quick.
Bamboo-bodied. Powered up at coffee-time
6.5 kg bamboo laminar composite body shell Complete prototype: 136 kg
Peak torque: 70 Nm
CAFES RACED
TO HUNT THE CITY ON A FALCON
September 2017
Built. Launched at Manila FAME
UNCOMMISSIONED MISSIONED
BANAT Expressed
Banatti’s first business card
The Original Falcon Sketch, a bamboo bodied cafe racer…
Over Coffee, the ideas mount
From Sketches to Full Scale Pattern
The shell, gauges and handlebars
Body shell and handlebar studies
Front and cowl studies
The shell and handlebar relationship
The Falcon’s head, cowl and lighting studies
FALCON logotype and structural side view
Frame and body
The Green Falcon Film
The Falcon in the Hangar: Theme-board - DNA Sequencing
The Bedu and Bazilla
Ken and Nagayuki
Sofia and OM
Putu and Psikou
Hete and Horus
Rainier and Renee’, Albert and Audrey
Modelling The Monocoque Layout
UNISTRUCT: Banatti’s New Construct System
Hero, in Filipino
The Everyday HeroTransporter
Many Heroes One Platform
TO ENDURE TO SERVE
TO TRANSPORT LIFE FORWARD
Juan For All All For Juan
BANAT EXPRESSED
BANAT NG BAYANI
Our Great Nation Begins
With Juans Who Choose
To Participate To Contribute
To BANAT Together the Bayani Way
BANAT This System
Bayanihan Happens
Bayanis Transported
Across Roads, Rivers, Seas.
48,000 barangays 7,460 islands
BANAT IS OUR VEHICLE
THE TRANSPORTED IS US
JUAN FOR ALL ALL FOR JUAN
BANAT OUR NATION
JOSE RIZALFilipino Hero
HIS VISION TRAVELS
THROUGH GENERATIONS
Still moving US, 130 years on
THE BANATTI RIZAL
DIGNITY ARCHITECTED
ONE
ALL
AS ONE
LEGACY TRANSPORTED
FOR asks whom and what our creations serve.
We are part of Nature, not apart from it. What we create with Her must belong within the relationships that sustain life.
Across land, sea and air, we explore possibilities for moving people, connecting places, and improving how we live.
But possibility alone is not purpose. What we make, how we make it, and what we leave behind matter.
To restore dignity. To transport life. To BANAT responsibly.
Us Our Place Within Nature
What Asks to BeWisdom ArchitectsDesign Transports
For the Bayani’s Banat
Bayanihan
Land Sea Air
Relationships Linked
One All As One
Transported
Culture Within Nature
To Restore Dignity
To Transport Life
To Banat Responsibly
ROOTS acknowledges those who came before, those who stood beside us, and those whose hands and minds helped bring ideas into being.
From family and formative influences to teachers, makers and collaborators, each relationship has contributed something to what BANATTI is becoming.
Some planted. Some nurtured. Some questioned. Some built. All left something worth carrying forward.
And the work continues. New questions, new discoveries, new relationships.
Will our roots grow together?
FROM WHO CAME BEFORE
FOR AND THROUGH US
INTO WHAT WE SET IN MOTION
Nature, the first teacher.
Life provides the next.
PHILOSOPHY
RELATIONSHIPS
ROOT AND GROW
TOGETHER WE BANAT FORWARD
THANK YOU
Some doors require a knock. This one protects the ZiGRacer. Beyond it live ideas, stories, machines, journeys. Some are ready. Others hibernate, waiting for the world to catch up.
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