SHALLOW DOMES

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.