Bamboo Workshop
BAMBOO WORKSHOP Description Visthar, Doddagubbi, Bengaluru · Hosted by Litar Design Station · 12 participantsA three-day workshop on building with bamboo, run at Visthar farm on the edge of Bengaluru with Shruthi Anand of Litar Design Station and bamboo master Ghani of Foto N Man Associates. Twelve participants took part, from a mix of professions rather than architecture alone. Participants began with the material itself — species, selection, and the treatment methods that decide whether a bamboo structure lasts three years or thirty. From there the work moved to design, worked out through sketches and physical models, then on to basic joinery and the roofing options that suit bamboo framing. The final part was entirely hands-on, with participants cutting, jointing and raising work themselves. Location Visthar, Bengaluru Date 09-08-2025 and 10-08-2025 Time 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM No of Seats 13
SHALLOW DOMES
SHALLOW DOMES Description Held over five days at Kolotan School in Barasat, a school building designed by Laurent Fournier, this workshop taught the same natural building techniques that went into the school itself — so participants learned on the very walls and roofs standing around them.The sessions were split across three instructors. Wattle and daub covered the timber and bamboo framework, the daub mix, and the process of packing and finishing the panels. Bamboo work — treatment, cutting, and joinery — was led by Ghani Zaman. Laurent Fournier taught bamboo along with brick shallow domes, walking participants through laying a dome without centering.The group also built and tested a bamboo shallow dome, taking it from setting out the form to loading it and watching how it held. Location Kolotan School, Barasat, Kolkata Time 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM No of Seats 13
LIME PLASTER- CHEERVILLE
LIME PLASTER Description Traditional lime plastering. Participants slaked and matured the lime, mixed it with sand and additives, and applied base, floating and finish coats. Location Cheerville Date 25-03-2023,26-03-2026 Time 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM No of Seats 20
RAMMED EARTH – YERCAUD
RAMMED EARTH – YERCAUD Description Held on the hillside site of Venil Farms in Yercaud, this workshop introduced participants to rammed earth built entirely from soil dug on site. The land offered two distinct soils — a red and a yellow — and the sessions began with understanding them: how each behaved, how much moisture they needed, and how they could be layered to produce the banding that now runs through the finished walls.Participants worked through the full sequence — preparing and testing the mix, setting up formwork, and ramming in courses to the right compaction. Each of them made their own sample block, experimenting with the two colours and the rhythm of the layers. The group was kept small, around eight, so everyone worked hands-on through every stage rather than watching. Location Venil Farms, Muluvi, Yercaud Date 16-04-2023 Time 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM No of Seats 10
ARCHES AND FILLER SLAB
ARCHES AND FILLER SLAB Description Compression structures and slab economy. Participants built arches over centering and cast a filler slab with terracotta infill to cut concrete use. Location Pondicherry Date 18-09-2022 Time 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM No of Seats 28
GUWAHATI – MUD N BAMBOO
GUWAHATI – MUD AND BAMBOO Description A combined earth and bamboo intensive for architecture students. Covered wattle and daub, a shallow dome, lime-stabilised rammed earth, bamboo weaving, and bamboo cutting and joinery. Location Guwahati School of Architecture, Assam Time 40 No of Seats 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
HY LIME PLASTER
LIME PLASTERING Description Focused on Thappi Lohi, the beaten lime finish — its preparation, the rhythm of application, and the tools and timing that gave it its sheen. Taught with master artisan Mo. Rafik Muwal. Location Hyderabad Time 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Date 19-08-2023 to 22-08-2023 No of Seats 15
BAMBOO
Register Now BAMBOO Description Built a small open bamboo pavilion, designed to be reused later as a car park. Covered species selection, treatment and seasoning, cutting, joinery and lashing, and the assembly of the frame and roof. Location Hosur Date 18-02-2023 and 19-02-2023 Time 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM No of Seats 10
EARTH BAG
EARTH BAG Description Earthbag construction built around an existing tree. Participants filled and tamped the bags, laid barbed-wire courses between them, and corbelled the structure to a dome. Left unplastered, so the bag courses stayed exposed. Location Hosur Time 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Date 24-01-2023 No of Seats 10-15
LIME TANK
LIME TANK Description Constructed a lime water storage tank. Covered curved masonry, lime plaster build-up and internal waterproofing — the full sequence for a functioning cement-free tank. Location Jain Farms, Hosur Date 24-21-2022 Time 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM No of Seats 10