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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 MissionTo 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
Transforming the landscape
Providing the community with
seedlings
Collected more than 24 species
of bamboo
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
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” Rabindranath Tagore