Adobe and Bamboo Research Institute

Anyone, who has been to the hills of South-asia during the damp monsoon walking on the unbroken contours of the rice terraces must have thought that there is a low cost and sustainable reality to the urban chaos. In many parts of Nepal, most people do their farming in Phant (foothills) and the terraces because they are generally fertile, humid and have enough supply of water. In the evenings the farmers walk up hills as they are coolers, safer from mosquitoes and floods read more

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Definitely a way forward! ASUS has been experimenting with different materials including leather in the earlier notebook models, and for us nothing is more exciting than a bamboo notebook. We hope that they now will make even the interior components with bamboo. Visit ASUS

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Bamboo has had a very historical and cultural association in Nepal, it is used in almost all aspects of life from construction, marriage, death to livelihood. The use of bamboo however, has been only subsistence, and the modern market for it is not well developed. With the growing bamboo demand in the world, abundant availability of the resources, vast traditional knowledgebase and cultural affinity of this material in Nepal, there is a tremendous potential for it to contribute to the people’s livelihood. This paper focuses on how traditional bamboo users, who amount to around 3.3 in Nepal alone, can be integrated in to the modern market.

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We had been “underground” in Harsar trying to finish the work at for CareNepal. Here is the first installation of our truss. This is just a training for bamboo connection to the local craftsmen. The real thing is yet to come!! The current unrest has put a hold in the progress, lets pray that the work will resume soon.

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Hope for Education ( an effort to raise money for school in Namje) here in Kathmandu this past Saturday was a grand success!

The turnout was well over expected- more than 170 people- and we managed to raise over Rs. 1,28,000 (approx USD $ 2031) after costs. Food and wine was good and the live performances by Tulsi Parajuli, Kunti Moktan, Sita Gurung, Kutumba, Barta Gandharva and Mica Sundari were superb. This is in addition to Rajiv Goyal’s previous fundraising effort in New York, which had already raise about $30,000

The event and Namje got some press in a few of the dailies (including http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=132889) and interviews are still underway.

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This is our new design for a laboratory and library for an existing school in Namje (near dhankuta). The structures are ofcourse bamboo and the walls are 45cm thick rammed earth.

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International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, University of Southern California, USA, Oita University Japan and Hunan University, China jointly organized an international workshop on modern bamboo structures from October 28 to 30 In Changsa Hunan. The workshop covered the various research and development activities on bamboo based structures and related topics. The participants also observed the work dones by Hunan University on bamboo housing and bamboo bridge. About 60 participants from China and abroad attended the event. Nripal Adhikary from Abari also presentated a paper on a locally developed bamboo treatment method.Click here for the full paper

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Here is a very elegant bamboo connection done by a progressive hungarian design group Medence Csoport . Though their website is in Hungarian, the have some very interesting pictures of their bamboo art projects.

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Good news! Our abari website was nominated as “the featured website of the week” in Hits FM 92.4’s program Surfing. It is a tech program run by Alok Thapa, that reviews different sites which deal with different technological, cultural and social issues. Its our honor to be featured in such an esteemed program.

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