MOUNTAIN ARCHITECTURE NOW! SS15 WORKPLAN

DAY 1 and 2 (11th and 12th): Travel from Ahmedabad to Delhi to Kathgodam (Uttarakhand) by 3AC Train/ Volvo Bus (depends on availability) + Local Shared taxi to site.

DAY 3 (13th): Explore the location and its surroundings, prepare material for the site work.

DAY 4-9 (15th-20th): Working with soil, rammed earth, local stone, improved mud mortars, organic thermal insulation; create several 1;1 scale mock ups that can be tested out.

Day 11 : Day Visit to Binsar Wildlife scantuary (Treking + Local architecture Study) Evening of 20th big bonfire diner.

DAY 12-13 (21st-22nd): Travel back to Ahmedabad.

INSTRUCTOR

Himanshu Lal Founding Architect Arch i platform, Architecture & Research platform, New Delhi Himanshu Lal, a graduate from School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi, has been working on sustainable climate responsive architecture since 5 years. His keen interest in the build environment at high altitudes includes the usage of natural/ local materials. He has been involved from the start with Sustainable Mountain Architecture, is part of the Indian Mountain Initiative and he has done extensive mapping work in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and recently Punjab. Other rojects are located in the remote areas of India: the Kargyak Learning Centre (Jammu and Kashmir) at 4200 m. in the Zanskar Valley, a community based home improvement by re-using waste in Sikkim East, a Forest Outpost in Kupup (Sikkim), the Welcome Area for the INCIMOD headquarters, the restoration

of the 110 year old Nimmu House in Nimmu, Ladakh, Mapping work includes Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary Trekking Map, Uttrakhand Eco Tourism Map, Garli Heritage Village Map (Himachal Pradesh). With his mentor Anne Feenstra, Himanshu travelled to Paris, Prague, Germany and The Netherlands to be part of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture and to bring the arch i project DELHi 2050 - fundamentally rethinking the long-term future of Delhi- to the Architectural Biennale as the project was selected as 1 of the 26 projects from all over the world. Bikash Palikey: Architect and co-founder of Sustainable Mountain Architecture, Kathmandu. Bikash Palikhey graduated from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany in 2011. Together with Himanshu, he conducted three ‘Get Your Hands Dirty’ workshops during ICIMOD’s Climate + Change exhibition in 2014. His interests lie in sustainable design and energy efficient buildings.