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Reconstructed house in use Suji, Manoj

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This house is larger than others in the area and does not follow the recommended house designs of the government which were distributed after the 2015 earthquake to aid in constructing earthquake resistant housing. However, it has followed the building codes by incorporating prominent horizontal bands, by having lower walls in the first floor whose height has been increased by use of tin sheets in the gables, and the weight of the roof has been kept low by using corrugated iron sheets. Taken during the 3rd phase of fieldwork conducted by the research team based at Social Science Baha in Kathmandu, Nepal, as part of the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, ‘Expertise, Labour and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction’. See project details at https://elmnr.arts.ubc.ca/.

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Title
Reconstructed house in use
Creator
Suji, Manoj
Contributor
Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction (Reconstructing Nepal Project)
Date Issued
2019-07-20
Description
This house is larger than others in the area and does not follow the recommended house designs of the government which were distributed after the 2015 earthquake to aid in constructing earthquake resistant housing. However, it has followed the building codes by incorporating prominent horizontal bands, by having lower walls in the first floor whose height has been increased by use of tin sheets in the gables, and the weight of the roof has been kept low by using corrugated iron sheets. Taken during the 3rd phase of fieldwork conducted by the research team based at Social Science Baha in Kathmandu, Nepal, as part of the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, ‘Expertise, Labour and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction’. See project details at https://elmnr.arts.ubc.ca/.
Subject
Building materials; Wood; Building codes; Earthquake resistant buildings
Geographic Location
Sindhu Pālchok (Nepal)
Type
Still Image
Language
zxx
Notes
This image is part of a collection produced by the collaborative research partnership, ‘Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction’, which was funded by SSHRC Partnership Development Grant 890-2016-0011 from 2017-2021. Additional support was provided by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, the Faculty of Arts, the School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, and the Department of Anthropology at UBC. Sara Shneiderman (Associate Professor, Anthropology and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, UBC) served as Principal Investigator, along with Co-Investigators Philippe Le Billon (Professor, Geography and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, UBC) and Katharine Rankin (Professor, Geography and Planning, University of Toronto). The research team based at Social Science Baha in Kathmandu, Nepal, included Jeevan Baniya, Bina Limbu, Prakash Chandra Subedi, and Manoj Suji, who worked in partnership with Nabin Rawal of the Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University. The photographic collection was curated by Khem Shreesh of Social Science Baha in collaboration with Emily Homolka of UBC’s School of Information, with additional support from Emily Amburgey and Jonathan Eaton of UBC’s Department of Anthropology. Full information about the project is available at https://elmnr.arts.ubc.ca/
Date Available
2020-07-09
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0392189
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74980
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Researcher
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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