Abari presentation 2016 - Kathmandu & Nepal

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING / CREATING LIVELIHOODS

About us

•Traditional uses of bamboo architecture

•Challenges to make them mainstream

•Some good practices

Abari is a socially and environmentally

committed research and design firm that

examines, encourages, and celebrates the

vernacular traditional material like bamboo and

earth with an aim to promulgate these materials

into contemporary design practices.

About us

•Traditional uses of bamboo architecture

•Challenges to make them mainstream

•Some good practices

Processing Center: Chitwan, Nepal

30 permanent staff

20 permanent carpenters (50 percent women)

Worked in Countries:

Nepal, India, Bhutan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and

USA.

Est. 2006

Partners/Networks

•Traditional uses of bamboo architecture

•Challenges to make them mainstream

•Some good practices

OUR Mission To To

To find a sustainable alterative to wood and steel

without compromising ecology and livelihood

OUR Activities

- Technical challenges

- Engineering strength

- Connections

- Treatment

- Robust supply chain

- Perceptional challenges

- Lack of awareness

- Perceptions based on the past

Our major challenges

Forward Linkages Backward Linkages

Hariyo Ban – Creating a Bamboo

Village of the Future Madi Valley, Chitwan

Our objectives:

Bamboo plantation

of 10,000 plants this

year

A million bamboo plants in 10 years!

To create natural embankments

Transforming the landscape

Providing the community with

seedlings

Collected more than 24 species

of bamboo

Bamboo Anatomy

Our Technologies

Treatment Technology in Kosi, Bihar

Industrial Plant in Chitwan

Different Joineries

Wattle and Daub

Zhemgang, Bhutan Bhutan

Rammed Earth

Kathmandu

Janakpur

Pharping

Cafe

Current Projects

Foreign Materials

11%

Local Materials 54%

Labor 35%

Budget Analysis

89% stays locally

Earthquake 2015

• Owner Built Process

• Create Livelihood and enterprise

• Use Local Resources

• Durable

• Earthquake and flood resistant

• Based on studies of Bihar 2009, Leh 2011, China

2011 and Colombia 2013 reconstruction

Post-earthquake Activities

Transitional Shelter Manuals -

ODR

Open-source Permanent

Home Designs

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” Rabindranath Tagore

the play space

Compressed Earth Block

Narayansthan HSS Timal, Kavre

Madan Puraskar

Pustakalaya

For more information:

WWW.ABARI.ORG