Rammed earth walls of the beautifully laid Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, a national archive, in Patan stirs memory of centuries old architecture, yet the intricately tended bamboo roof truss and expedient interior design arouses a sense of modernity. The idea of building structure with locally available materials, such as mud and bamboo is becoming unconventional. Read how Mr. Nripal Adhikary and his Abari Team have been daring to shift the paradigm of modern building practices by materializing bamboos and combining traditional architecture with modern engineering to build earthquake resistant homes and structures: