Adobe and Bamboo Research Institute

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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Pictures from Construction at our site in Janakpur.

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Here is a full article on our treatment process.

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We would like to thank our webmaster Kurt Gardella from Germany for doing wonderful work with our website. The new gallery set up is making our website even more informative. Thanks to this great website, we have been very visible on the web.

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Pictures of Harsar in added in the Gallery section. Please take a look.

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