Team

Posted on | November 30, 2006 | 1 Comment

Our founder Shishir is a civil engineer with an artistic flair. He specializes in bamboos houses with a seamless integration to the vastu standards.  He graduated from Bangladesh, where 70 percent of the houses are built of bamboos. He believes bamboo has not achieved its glory that it deserves in Nepal. Currently, he is researching on bamboo treatments and its connection, especially using the available local technology.

Nripal, as a designer has worked with adobe in New Mexico, USA, Germany, Mongolia and is currently based in Nepal. He is our trendsetter. He has intiated this ambitious project to promote the tradition materials so it can cater to the modern sensibility.  He is designing a housing model that does not rely on the city grid and produces no waste, instead the house, plays a productive role, like a tree, in the ecosystem. And at the same time have the added benefit of thermal comfort, beauty that helps not just the environment but also the local economy.

Murari Adhikari but we call him dada, which means the big one. Yes he is the big one indeed. Without his legal and financial advice, abari does not move an inch f. He is our senior Lawyer. 

Our dear Roshi is a master craftswoman. She is a 17 old protegee. She works with reed, and has created some of the most intricate pieces of work. She also gives training.

Shankesh Subedi is heading our Research and Development department. He is a civil engineer by training, and with his great managerial skills and technical brain, this new department is hoping to make some radical contributions that can change the way we view the traditional materials. 

Our intern Krishna, is a young dynamic and versatile. He is studying marketing. He just completed his schooling and he is searching for different options. With his superb marketing skills, we know he can sell mud and bamboo  to anyone. His love of earthern material has brought him to Abari.

Kurt Gardella has adobe mixed in his blood. He especializes not only on adobe sun dried bricks but also adobe softwares. Our website would not have been possible without him. 

OUR DONORS

Basanta and Shova Adhikary are the modern day nomads. From the arid desert of Mongolia to the tropical farms of Laos, they have worked intensively promoting sustainable agriculture. They do what they preach. They are our major source of funding as well as inspiration.   

Guido Mueller from Germany works for a Telecommuncation firm Infinion. He is indeed a great mountain hiker, he recently conquered 5000 meters in the Himalayas. He supports our Trustbari program, and he has commited 240 euro a year towards it. He is supporting Sunita and her family in Chitwan. 

Bhupal Adhikary

Arya Karki

Bikash Palikhey

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Abari is a socially and environmentally committed research,design and construction firm that examines, encourages, and celebrates the vernacular architectural tradition of Nepal. As Nepal posses sophisticated traditional knowledge of natural materials like adobes, bamboos, stones and reed, Abari as a research and design firm tries to promulgate these materials into contemporary design practices.

Our services

We specialize in creation of integrated supply chain of bamboo and earth in construction, furniture, energy, plantation and research.

Village Of the Future

We are working with a community in Chitwan where we are planting hundreds of bamboo along a river bed. In order to avoid monoculture, we are also planting high value crops like lemongrass, ginger, lentil, chamomile etc. Our plan is to add value to these plants, for example by building schools with local resources, or extracting lemongrass oil so that we can create a unique village that demonstrates the world the best local use of natural resources. For more info http://www.abari.org/votf

Treatment

Treatment is the most fundamental part of bamboo construction. We spent first two years of Abari just developing pressure treatment system that is effective, portable and economical- in other words that is suitable in a developing country like ours. It is not fully perfected, but it is good enough to treat 100 bamboo a day. We have even exported our technology to India, Fiji and USA! If you are looking to buy our machine or treatment service do let us know. If you want to collaborate with us to make our treatment plant better we'd be more than happy to share.

Furniture

We have silently doing some prototyping for furniture, lampshades using bamboo and other materials like metals, leather, glass etc. If you like to collaborate please do let us know.

Contact

info@abari.org

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