Bamboo-steel Hybrid Structure

INTRODUCTION

The thesis project focuses on designing a public high school for Suni village in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh to promote education through design, by bringing the social practices rooted in the vernacular architecture and taking advantage of the natural affinity of students to be able to perform highly in rough terrains in response to the natural surroundings.

The project also focuses in parallel on developing a bamboo-steel hybrid construction technique that is responsive to the earthquake prone site that makes use of locally available materials as opposed to the modern practice of constructing unsuitable concrete buildings that are considered more “advanced” by the local population.