Architecture as an anthorpological study

We believe architecture is not about imposing ideas. It’s an organic process, its a transfusion.  We believe that the essense of building in a culture, comes from living in a culture. Its not a technical process, it involves anthropological study. We have been living, farming, eating with the farmers in Harsar, so that our architecture blends in and gets accepted to [...]

Bamboo in Budget 2008

Here is what our Hon’ Finance Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai had to offer to the bamboo sector:
216.. An extensive plantation in public and private lands will be carried out in the form of a campaign with the objective of expanding the forest area and reducing the excessive pressure on public forest area as well as to [...]

Fire Resistant Thachted Roof

Prof. Dr. Jiv Raj Pokhrel, president of Nepal Center for Disaster Management,  has been working on a fire resistant thached roof, in which he puts a half inch mud plaster on top of a traditional thachted roof , which is then covered with a uv protected plastic sheet. By doing this, oxygen is blocked out [...]

Thatched Roofs

 
It is a ritual in many Asian countries, to fix one’s roof before every monsoon, and to plaster the whole house after it. Maintaining one’s house every year before and after monsoon is seen as a ritual and not as a sign of poverty. Nepalis knew of glazed tiles yet they still insisted on burnt [...]

Truss Fabrication

One of the main reasons for disuse of bamboo in modern construction is due to a lack of skilled human resources. For better or worse bamboo can not be standardized. Bamboo comes in different shapes and sizes which makes it a very difficult material to work with. Bamboos are very hard to produce [...]