sustainable building / creating livelihoods
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SUSTAINABLE BUILDING / CREATING LIVELIHOODS
Kushal Harjani
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
Forward LinkagesBackward Linkages
Hariyo Ban – Creating a Bamboo
Village of the FutureMadi 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
Rammed Earth
Kathmandu
Compressed Earth Block
Janakpur
Pharping
Cafe
Current Projects
Foreign Materials
11%
Local Materials54%
Labor35%
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
For more information:
WWW.ABARI.ORG