Rammed Earth House in Nepal

Our first two story residential house in Kathmandu is in progress. The second floor is now coming up. First floor is rammed earth and the second floor is lightweight bamboo frame with natural insulation.

Bamboo Treatment Machine Video

Here is a youtube video of our treatment machine in process.

Cradle to Grave

After plantation, we are now looking at other end of the spectrum, when there is bamboo waste or it decays, we use it to produce briquettes.  Here is our first briquettes, they are smoke less, burn for about 45 minutes, moreover they protect our forest. Now our next step is to add flavors and to [...]

Bamboo Plantation

Secret of good bamboo structure is supply of good bamboo. Over the years in many countries we have worked with many different species of bamboo, and the joy in construction of bamboo comes when bamboo is off good quality- straight, thick wall thickness, smaller internodes. Not all bamboo is as strong as steel and not [...]

Non-stabilized Rammed Earth

Ode to Hemendra Bohra. This would the first rammed earth and bamboo residential structure in Kathmandu, and that too not stabilized. Yes, only good old earth and bamboo! This could be a tipping point in architectural pattern in Kathmandu, as it demonstrate many interested but sckeptical group of people in Nepal who want to go [...]

Bamboo Rack

Our  first prototype book rack, was made for a youth based organization in Kathmandu. We used 1-2.3 inches thick bamboo in combination with copper sheets to give a rustic look. “Palcha” a small copper bowl which is used to light oil lamps beautifully coverd the joints and gave it a very [...]

Bamboo in Uganda

A training hall under construction- designed and built by INBAR‘s Nepali-Colombian architect duo Nripal Adhikary and Juan Carlos Jaramillo. This 2200 sq. meter building is the largest bamboo structure in East Africa. It is part of an initiative of INBAR to introduce bamboo- ubiquitous but under utilized material- in East Africa. This is built in [...]

MOKHA ART FOR ARCHITECTURE

NEPALI WOMEN HELP REVIVE A DISAPPEARING ARCHITECTURAL ART FORM
By: Mokha master artists Shanti Chaudhari and Khedni Chaudhari, Rotary Club of Itahari Past-President Ramesh Tamraker and Canadian architect Stanley Britton
THE ART
Tharu is the indigenous culture of the Terai plains east of the Koshi River between the Himalaya foothills and Nepal’s southeast border with India. Many families [...]

Kitchen Interior

Here is the interior of the kitchen. Its 8 meters high, 10 meters wide and 15 meters long. Who says you can not make large structure out of bamboo? You can do anything that cement and concrete can and that too in an ecological, economical and a beautiful way.

Finished Kitchen

After long and arduous battle our kitchen is finished. The tiles looks awesome. They are made on site! They have no embodied energy what so ever- meaning they are not burnt.
During this construction, we have followed a very conventional philosophy i.e. a sound hat and a sound boot is all what you need for protection. [...]

Bamboo Kitchen

Prefabricated Bamboo Housing

Here is an overview of the housing sector of Nepal prepared by Ujjwal Pokhrel (SNV Nepal), and the potential fabricated bamboo can do to aid the current housing problems of the country.

Bamboo Kitchen

Happy New Year to everyone.
May this be the year of bamboo and mud. Our cantina is in its final stage. The trusses are complete. The structure is about 120 sq. meters in area. It uses locally harvested, locally treated bamboo which are constructed using local labor. Its a nice execution of our motto “think global, [...]

Chuli Building

The more we work with bamboo, more confident we become on the strength and beauty of this  vegetal steel. It  makes one wonder, why isn’t this material used more in the modern construction, as there is nothing it cant do that steel would. Yet, its cheaper, available, beautiful and yet many times more ecological. Here [...]

Bamboo Truss

 

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