In July 2012, the Canadian Federal Department of Environment awarded INBAR a new project working with communities in Ethiopia and Nepal

Naomi Saville and Narayan Acharya had always wanted to build an earth house. They had visited Auroville many years ago and were impressed by the interlocking compressed earth block.

 Hemendra Bohora, an environmental engineer by training, is the first person to attempt to build a rammed earth house in Kathmandu.

Background: In Nepal, it is still a harsh reality, that many villages do not have an access to roads. Among other things, the inaccessibility makes it particularly difficult to build schools,

When people analyze vernacular architecture there is a tendency either to dismiss them outright for their ‘primitiveness’ or to romanticize the natives for the ‘improvisation’ of local materials