Archives for September 2007
Harsar Construction
Pictures from Construction at our site in Janakpur.
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Treatment Article
Here is a full article on our treatment process.
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Thanks
We would like to thank our webmaster Kurt Gardella from Germany for doing wonderful work with our website. The new gallery set up is making our website even more informative. Thanks to this great website, we have been very visible on the web.
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Pictures of Harsar
Pictures of Harsar in added in the Gallery section. Please take a look.
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Bamboo in Janakpur
Harsar, a tiny village near Janakpur, is where our construction is taking place. It is a small impoverished Maithili village, which has a mix of Hindu and Muslim community who are living in a relative harmony. However, the vices of untouchability, child marriage, superstition and inequality still haunts this village. Most of the people make their living through farming, but the young people are migrating to India and Gulf countries for better paying jobs. The area is rich in natural resources mainly in bamboo, mango, eucalyptus trees etc. CareNepal is trying to promote bamboo as a modern construction material, and they have chosen Abari do so. We are using the old materials but with modern connection and bending techniques.
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Laying the foundation
The work in Janakpur has finally started after much unavoidable delay. Abari team just got back from laying the foundation. Below ground level, stones are dry stacked. We have very high plinth level (3 feet) and we have used little bit of cement for bonding and as moisture barrier. Dried stack foundation are used a lot in traditional construction. They are believed to absorb seismic shock, since there is room for lateral movements. Frank Llyod Wright was inspired by this kind of foundation, as used in Japan. He used them for his seismically resistant buildings.
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