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ABC is an Architectural and structural consultancy firm dedicated to Bamboo Architecture.

We also provide bamboo accessories for furniture and Interior Design projects.

Cofounders:Cofounders:Cofounders:Cofounders:

Ar. Prerna Jayant PalekarAr. Prerna Jayant PalekarAr. Prerna Jayant PalekarAr. Prerna Jayant Palekar

Currently appointed as a group committee member in Balbharti Balbharti Balbharti Balbharti Pune, she has also written

text books for standard 1st and 2nd on Bamboo and cane work under a subject called

Work Experience.

She has done a Bamboo Certificate course in Chaing Mai, Thailand

to update with the latest construction technology used in bamboo

constructions. Conducted by BamboorooBamboorooBamboorooBambooroo, it hosted architects

across the world making it an interactive and knowledge sharing

experience.

She has also done a research thesis on Bamboo architecture in

Nagaland where she helped voluntarily to design and executed a bamboo community

center in Yimjenkimong village, Mokokchung Dist. Nagaland.

Visiting member of Association of Architecture, AA LondonAA LondonAA LondonAA London she also attended a visiting

school in Bangalore on Computation. She is working on a project combining digital

architecture and bamboo.

Ar. Kankana Narayan DevAr. Kankana Narayan DevAr. Kankana Narayan DevAr. Kankana Narayan Dev

She has published research papers in International World Bamboo CongressWorld Bamboo CongressWorld Bamboo CongressWorld Bamboo Congress in 2010,

Bangkok, Thailand and 2012 Antwerp, Belgium.

This has helped us carve a niche for our philosophy and version of sustainable bamboo

Architecture on international level.

ABC recently won a scholarship worth 1 lakh from Saint GobianSaint GobianSaint GobianSaint Gobian.

It was granted after a nationwide completion on sustainable

proposals made by inspiring entrepreneurs all over the country.

Kankana N Dev made a presentation on a proposal called DEW DEW DEW DEW

(Darang Eco WDarang Eco WDarang Eco WDarang Eco Workshoporkshoporkshoporkshop), Mangoldai, Assam.

This workshop is used to treat bamboo and make bamboo portable

furniture. One of such initiative was to provide bamboo light weight

furniture to Tata Institute of Social Science Tata Institute of Social Science Tata Institute of Social Science Tata Institute of Social Science OOOOffice ffice ffice ffice in Guwahati Campus,

Assam.

Portable furniture and architecture is one of our unique expertise and we

are working on it to export out of Assam.

PROJECTS:PROJECTS:PROJECTS:PROJECTS:

FARM HOUSE IN NOIDA:FARM HOUSE IN NOIDA:FARM HOUSE IN NOIDA:FARM HOUSE IN NOIDA:

The requirement of the client was to build a temporary structure

which can be used as a farm house in outskirts of Noida in a SEZ

area. The plots are allotted for the purpose of farm houses near the

river but the construction has to be in temporary in nature.

Therefore many have used metal hollow section along with

corrugated sheets to make a building

envelope but that it not just unsustainable but

create lot of heat in already worse climate.

Here we provided a complete bamboo

structure with all the load calculation. The

looks just another conventional RCC or load

bearing structure but is crafted with Bamboo

only.

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This project is one of the first initiatives in

proposing a portable bamboo structure.

Since the design brief was to construct a

open bamboo structure mostly used for the

gatherings for the tourists and camps visiting

The Jim Corbett national Park. The budget

was tight and we had to give a structural

consultancy to the already designed form.

We proposed to give joinery details in such a

way that the whole structure can be

assembled on site by just nut bolting to save the execution time.

We are now also capable of manufacturing this portable architecture in our workshop in

Darang called DEWDEWDEWDEW. . . . Here we have sate of art machineries required to treat bamboo to last

for 50 years and work on the joinery of bamboo. Such portable kit of pre designed

structures can be transported to the site, ready to assemble. Our research on bamboo in

India and the challenges in executing bamboo architecture in comparison with other

Southeast Asian countries have brought us to this unique solution which is also very

affordable and solves various other transportation problems. We as a team were also

involved in training unemployed youth in northeast in this type of construction system by

conducting bamboo workshops.

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Conducted by department of Handloom and

Handicrafts, Gangtok, Sikkim workshop was

intended to re introduce bamboo as a

structural material in construction. Our target

group was young unemployed youth and the

enthusiast architectural students..

This picture shows a simple shed constructed

by the participants using the modern

technique of nut bolting unlike traditional

tying of bamboo to achieve strong joints.

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After the success in Sikkim the Forest depart of Meghalaya invited

us to conduct a similar workshop in Shillong. The venue was Lady

Hydari Park which is a hangout place for tourist and local people in

the central city.

Even this workshop saw participants coming from all over the

country from different backgrounds. Some were govt employees,

unemployed youths, students of Architecture and even architects

practicing vernacular stuff in Haryana.

We also gave a presentation on Bamboo as a resource in Gulabrao Devkar Architecture

College, Jalgaon, Maharashtra.

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There is no course or institution to give formal training on bamboo architecture in India

and now that many young architects and students are interested in Bamboo Architecture

we conduct bamboo workshops to introduce

them to bamboo as a construction material

giving them an opportunity and confidence

to use bamboo as a building material but

with students of architecture, it is not

enough to just understand the construction

technology but to study the material itself

with respect to its structural properties

through some experiments and evolve the

innovative and site specific technology. We

called this a intuitive design process

involving study of space grammar and

material behavior.

Apart from delivering our consultancy for bamboo Architecture and Interior Design, we are

promoting bamboo in a unique way by publishing a newsletter called:

THE BAMBOO PROPHECYTHE BAMBOO PROPHECYTHE BAMBOO PROPHECYTHE BAMBOO PROPHECY

The Bamboo Prophecy is a newsletter published by ABC since 2011

to promote bamboo by sharing success stories of other

entrepreneurs in bamboo and prophesying new opportunities in

Bamboo sector. Our latest issue was published in the World

Bamboo Congress 2012 hosted at Antwerp, Belgium.

It talks about the Bamboo practices in India and abroad, scope and

opportunities in this upcoming trend and advertises the small

entrepreneurs who are struggling to make it big. This was

appreciated on the event of World Bamboo Congress by the Director

and now we have offers of publishing it on their web site.

CONTACT:CONTACT:CONTACT:CONTACT:

Ar. Prerna Jayant PalekarAr. Prerna Jayant PalekarAr. Prerna Jayant PalekarAr. Prerna Jayant Palekar

09404489636

Ar. Kankana Narayan DevAr. Kankana Narayan DevAr. Kankana Narayan DevAr. Kankana Narayan Dev

08011250234

6C, Geetanjali heights Appartment,

Geetanagar, Guwahati, Assam.