Rammed Earth

Our team member Sulava Piya, is now at University of Art, Linz, Austria for a workshop on earth construction with Martin Rauch and Anna Heringer. She is keeping a blog of her experience, please check it out:

 
 

Testing boron concentration

One of the major challenges we had treating bamboo with sap-displacement method was our difficulty in knowing if the bamboo was totally treated or not. Thanks to help from Prof. Walter Liese and our in-house team we have successful done our first test. The red ones are treated while the yellows are not.

Two story rammed earth

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This is our first two story bamboo and earth house. The first floor is 45 cm rammed earth reinforced with bamboo. The second floor is completely made of bamboo (bambusa balcooa). It is spacious, low maintenance,thermally very pleasant and has a very modern feel to it.  Its a perfect house for a middle class family [...]

Kasubi Tomb

Dome is a primordial shape found universally across the world whether its igloo in Inuit culture, yurt in Mongolia, domes of Nubia, Panthenon in Rome, Kabaka’s tomb of Bantu speaking people in East Africa. They are built with variety of materials- earth, ice, stones, felt, grass or concrete and glass in modern times. [...]

Dying Secrets of Pyangaon

Written By: Sulava Piya and Nripal Adhikary. Contribution from: Ramhari Thapa and Man Bahadur Maharjan
 
Rows of three to four story brick houses juxtaposed into one another, smell of  hay, golden crops spread in the pavement, men and women sorting out their grains , children running after their cattle, screaming, laughing and uttering their incomprehensible language [...]

IDDS

Our bamboo treatment plant has been selected for the prestigious International Design Development Summit founded by Amy Smith- this year’s Time 100 most influential people. We will keep a blog of how the Summit proceeds, and if you have any advice please do let us know. We are hoping to improve 2 aspects of our [...]

Bamboo facade

This old age home was designed by Michaelis Boyd Associates and John Sandy Associates for retired British Gorkha soldiers using natural materials like stone and bamboo. Though bamboo have been used here only as a non-structural decorative element, its delicate craftsmanship and intricate design will help in recognizing bamboo and stone as a viable modern [...]

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 [...]

Bamboo hall in Kenya

INBAR with its architect Nripal Adhikary and Juan Carlos Jaramillo just built this 80 sq. meter multipurpose hall in Kisumu Kenya. They trained unskilled village youths, who had no prior construction expereince to built this beautiful structure. The project was very well received in the community. This project is joint initiative of INBAR and IDRC [...]

Our Video

We have made a small video on earth and bamboo construction for Dell Competition, please take a look.

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