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Making the bamboo pavilion
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Pictures of Harsar
Pictures of Harsar in added in the Gallery section. Please take a look.
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Brickmaker in Nepal
Please click on the above picture to see an adobe brickmaker in action. These people have been making bricks for generation. They can make upto 500 bricks a day. Its ironic they make so many sun dried bricks in a day yet its hard to buy the bricks , its because all these bricks are later burnt in a kiln. Since burnt bricks are more expensive then the sun dried bricks (almost 1000% more), brickmakers are reluctant to see them. Sun dried bricks alone, are unfortunately not used in construction anymore. Burnt bricks consume lots of energy to make and obviously during the process they produce lots of smoke. Furthermore, heat retaining capacity of clay die out when they are burnt. So the sun dried bricks are better thermally and ecologically then the burnt bricks.
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Bamboo in Laos
A rice field in Harsar, Laos. The elevated bamboo houses are very common in this part of the world. The advantages of elevated houses are protection against flood, snakes, rats. The space in the bottom are also used for storage space.
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A Yurt in Motion
Here is a picture from our archive during the construction of “Gobidobe” in Mongolia. The modern resources has changed how people move, earlier nomads used to travel via camel. Now people can carry more stuff as they move, which might be a good thing or a bad thing depending on who you ask.
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Bamboo Treatment
Here is a picture of our low cost, high efficient bamboo treatment plant. Our focus has been, apart from using bamboo as a modern building material, to teach local people, especially women and marginalized people, about our technology so that they can use it themselves. Our patent pending, revolutionary small treatment plant has successfully treated more then 1200 bamboo in a month.
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Gypsies in Kathmandu
With an incredible resilience Gypsies have travelled all over the world. In Nepal they are known as firantes. They have exquisite stone carving skills. They also work as magicians among other things. They are very versatile and adaptive nomads, no wonder you see from Greece to Kathmandu. Here is an example of a gypsie tent. Vault shaped and indeed made of bamboo.
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Internally Displaced People
We are doing a series on the Sukumbasis (Internally Displaced People), who are living on a below poverty level along Monohara River, the river which divides Kathmandu from Bhaktapur. In this shelter lives a young mom, who is in her thirties with her 4 year old son. She makes her living by collecting sand from the Monohara river for the construction companies,
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A glimpse into the homelessness
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Adobe Interior
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