INBAR-ICIMOD Bamboo Workshop

1. SUSTAINABLE BUILDING / CREATING LIVELIHOODS
Kushal Harjani

2. 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.

3. 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

4. Partners/Networks
•Traditional uses of bamboo architecture
•Challenges to make them mainstream
•Some good practices

5. OUR Mission
To To
To find a sustainable alterative to wood and steel
without compromising ecology and livelihood
OUR Activities

6. - Technical challenges
- Engineering strength
- Connections
- Treatment
- Robust supply chain
- Perceptional challenges
- Lack of awareness
- Perceptions based on the past
Our major challenges

7. Forward LinkagesBackward Linkages

8. Hariyo Ban – Creating a Bamboo
Village of the Future
Madi Valley, Chitwan

9. Our objectives:
Bamboo plantation
of 10,000 plants this
year
A million bamboo plants in 10 years!

10. To create natural embankments

11. Transforming the landscape
Providing the community with
seedlings
Collected more than 24 species
of bamboo

12. Bamboo Anatomy

14. Our Technologies

15. Treatment Technology in Kosi, Bihar

16. Industrial Plant in Chitwan

17. Different Joineries

23. Rammed Earth

24. Kathmandu

29. Compressed Earth Block

30. Janakpur

31. Pharping
Cafe
Current Projects

33. Foreign
Materials
11%
Local Materials
54%
Labor
35%
Budget Analysis
89% stays locally

34. 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

35. Post-earthquake Activities

36. Transitional Shelter Manuals -
ODR

37. Open-source Permanent
Home Designs

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

40. the play space

43. For more information:
WWW.ABARI.ORG