Project Hariharpur
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10. Ramboll UK: Yanchee Lau & Keelan Hegarty Ramboll UK is an engineering firm that supported the project in-kind by sending two of their employees to work with us on the site. Yanchee is a Design Engineer and works across a range of disciplines including product, furniture, graphic, & experiential. He has a Masters degrees in Engineering from Cambridge University and Design: Product & Space from Kingston University. Keelan is a Graduate Structural Engineer with a Masters in Structural Engineering from University College Dublin. They joined us in Hariharpur for two weeks during the Visiting School, helping us to design the structure of the building, and to get things going on-site. 11. Structural consultant: Anil Laul Professor Anil Laul is an Indian architect and urban planner, particularly noted for his sensitivity to the needs of the poor and for his use of traditional methods and materials dovetailing the contemporary element into his designs. He is the principal architect of Anangpur Building Centre and Academy for Sustainable Habitat Research and Action (ASHRA). We met him before moving to Hariharpur, to see his work and discuss appropriate building technologies; he introduced us to Anshu. 12. ITRHD architect: Anshu Ahuja Anshu graduated in 2010 from Haryana university and has since worked for INTACH in Delhi, for Biome in Bangalore, and for the Adobe and Bamboo Research Institute in Nepal. We met him through Anil Laul’s group of followers, and he in turn introduced us to Pankaj Khana. Following on from a trip to the village during the Visiting School (12.a), Anshu approached ITRHD about a longer-term collaboration (12.b). He will be overseeing the development of the master plan after we leave, and a number of other projects in the area. 13. Engineering consultant: Pankaj Khana Pankaj is a building technologist with more than 10 years of experience in design and application of ecological and affordable building materials and techniques. He is a graduate of CEPT in Ahmedabad and the University of Nottingham, UK. He worked at Development Alternatives for a decade, during which time he was involved in projects using a range of building materials and practices. He is now a practicing consultant, based in Delhi, providing green building solutions. Pankaj shared lots of useful documents and manuals about appropriate construction technologies, came to the village during the second Visiting School, and introduced us to Raman, the master mason who train the locals in barrel vault construction. 14. Design consultants: Revathi & Vasant Kamath The Kamath Design Studio produces work informed by an explicitly environmental agenda. The work creatively synthesises attitudes and technologies into an aesthetic habitat and way of life. The studio’s projects have been published and exhibited internationally; three have been nominated for the Aga Khan Award. We contacted Revathi, after being introduced to her work by a friend. She invited us to her studio, her house, and for a two-day trip to one of her construction sites; she taught us a lot of what we know about mud construction. 15. Architectural advisor: Amritha Ballal Amritha is an architect and urban planner based in Delhi. She is a founding member of Space Matters, and a guest lecturer at the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) in Delhi. She worked with Alex and Ivar on a small design/build project in Uganda led by two NTNU Masters students, when she was studying at NTNU in Norway. Amritha acted as an interpreter and mediator during the first stakeholder meeting we held at the exhibition in Delhi, and introduced us to interesting collaborators.