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Wonder Grass: Innovation Inspires
With an average Annual yield of 3.73 Million Metric Tones, India is the second largest Bamboo producing country in the world.
75% of Indian subcontinent is a natural bamboo-habitat, spread over 9.57 million hectares.
Bamboo: A Material for Future (Available, Accessible & Affordable)
A fastest regenerating plant, Bamboo-pole matures in 3-5 years, ready for application.
With mechanical and physical properties at par with that of mild-steel and high-grade timber, Bamboo is ‘Steel from nature’.
At Wonder Grass we strive to make building an act of joy and enrichment,
While houses we build are light on earth, sustainable and affordable; we are committed to a tomorrow where building a house is within reach for every family.
Wonder Grass: Habitat for AllA Built-Environment is where practically every human endeavor is carried out; Habitat provides a sense of belonging, place to shelter and protection from natural forces.
‘Build your House to the Rhythm of Life, with a bit of a science’Shri. Vinoo Kaley
Wonder Grass – Value Proposition
Treated & Seasoned Bamboo poles; Available ‘Off-the-Shelve’
Complete Housing Units; Cottages, Transit Housing, Disaster Rehab.
Customized Design & Build solutions – Eg. Bridge
Skilled Artisan team for assembly, Post-sales support
Easy to assemble ‘Kit-of-Parts’; Ready-to-Use Building components, Available off-the-shelve - Bamboo-Panels, Gazebo etc.
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• Wonder Grass has structured its product offerings, such that it provides the client a suit of products and services across the complete value-chain of building-project cycle, giving him/her opportunity to choose from.
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Product Stream: Urban Retail Market
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‘QuB – lite’: A cottage Range
the cottages are Available in ‘Off-the-Shelve’ format, comes as a Flat-pack solution. The need for additional space on a terrace, compact yet independent unit as weekend gateway or a guest-cottages in an eco-tourism centers, this cottage serves all.
BIY Kits – Outdoor Semiopen Structures
The structures such as Gazebo’s, Pergola serve multiple functions when built on the existing terraces, gardens in the typical urban settings
Bamboo Panels and Shading DevicesTreated Bamboo poles available in
Product stream: Rural Market
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‘Home-Extension’ Kits; One of the primary building activity in a rural housing space is of extension and additions, we are targeting the extensions and additions market.
Sanitation Units:In the wake of the move to make India Open-Defecation Free, there is a thrust to build toilets across rural areas.Conventional construction technology is resource (and energy) intensive and is not capable t o deliver such a large volume in such a short time. Bamboo based construction system on the other hand can provide toilet units which are better designed, at much faster rate and which are sustainable.
Product stream: Institutional Market
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Transit Living Units:
• Expandable modular building units. These units are easy to erect and dismantle, useful for semi-permanent housing needs of various kinds. Like Worker’s housing,
Post-Disaster Rehabilitation:
A self contained living-unit, for immediate housing needs in a disaster affected regions. Its designed as a completely knock-down system, which is easy to flat-pack, light-weight for transportation and relatively easy to assemble.
Building System: Salient Features
Building – Solutions are Generic; This helps address a larger cross section of the market demand
Building system is designed as a ‘Kit-of-parts’ in a CKD format; A set of standardized and modular building components put together to make a required Built-form.
‘Flat-Pack’ Delivery; Easy to Transport, lightweight to carry
Installation; is simple, anyone with skill sets of a carpenter carrying basic tool-kit can assemble and install a building unit
Window of Opportunity – Go to Market
Habitat: Housing requirement in Rural India stands at staggering 8-12 million units. Wonder Grass envisions To build 10,000 Houses
Sanitation: Access to safe and hygienic sanitation in rural and tribal areas remains a matter of concern in India.
Wonder Grass envisions to facilitate and build 100,000 sanitation units
‘Shuchita’ – Sanitation units• It is spacious, it gels well with the
surroundings and is aesthetically pleasing. • The unit is naturally ventilated and well lit
throughout the day. • The unit is independent and can e adapted
for any kind of waste-disposal system, like Soak-pit, Septic Tank, Bio-digester.
• The unit can be adapted for Indian style Closet or European style WC.
‘Shuchita’ – Prototype in Progress
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Wonder Grass initiative Pvt. Ltd. 'Shuchita' - Sanitation Unit built with Bamboo August’ 2015
‘Shuchita’ – Field Run; Village Hidur, dist. Gadchiroli, Maharashtra
We have implemented about 40-50 units of ‘Shuchita’ - sanitation units so far, eg.
1. 4 units built in Gadchiroli dist. Maharashtra,
2. 16 units built in Sitamarhi dist. Northern Bihar
3. 10 units built in Daang dist. Gujarat
The feedback from the end user has been very positive and encouraging. The users have shown positive behavior towards actual use.
Wonder Grass initiative P Ltd. 'Shuchita' - Sanitation unit; A Brief Overview July’ 2015
Incremental Housing Typology• Built-form that can be expanded in phases.
• A ‘System’ approach that will help evolve a standardized, modular and replicable building components.
• Foundation / Plinth is conventional Brick & Mortar.
• Integrating basic services of water (RWH), Sanitation (Eco-san) and Light (Solar –LED).
A Bamboo House: Housing Typology for Rural India
A Bamboo House: Design Details
Staff Housing for Teachers – Tribal School at Vankua, Gujrat
• A complete housing unit – Hall, Dining, Kitchen and Bedroom with attached Toilet unit. .
• A house of about 600 Sq ft of Built-up Area, sustainable, elegant
Staff Housing for Teachers – Tribal School at Vankua, Gujrat
The structure is built with Bamboo as a principal material of construction.
Integrate with material like Terracotta tiles, Mud-mortar, Cement-brick etc.
Bamboo Bridge - Bangalore
Bamboo Bridge - Bangalore
Bamboo Bridge - Bangalore
Inspiration Vinoo Kaley - Bamboo Man
“Somehow Vinoo Kaley was much like his favorite bamboo with great tensile strength in his inner fiber and at once, delicate, supple and responsive to nature. Vinoo was the breath in bamboo without which it does not sing. The task is to keep that flute singing.”
(Prof. K T Ravindran, article in A+D)
Mobile: (+91) 92430 93363
Email: [email protected] Website: www.wondergrass.in
Blog: http://wondergrass.blogspot.com
Vaibhav has about 12 years of experience in designing and implementing bamboo structures of various scales. He has previously worked with BCIL, Bangalore as senior architect after his post-graduate research in urbanism from Bauhaus Germany. Vaibhav leads the design and operations of the company. Previously, he graduated with a degree in design from CEPT, Ahmedabad
Over two decades experience in funding, investing, incubating and starting small industry. - was among the first to raise venture capital funds for the Indian IT industry way back in 1992, last corporate assignment was with Polaris Software Lab. Ltd, handling a suite of Risk Management Products for the banking and the financial services sector and as Vice President; handled M&A's, divestitures, incubations as well as internal process monitoring. - Visiting Professor, IIMA teaching VC and Private Equity courses. - Currently advises startups on scale-up and VC's in value investing.
Wonder Grass – Team
Vaibhav Kaley, Founder, CEO
Kannan N.Co-Founder, Mentor
Project TeamSandip Gadekar – Purchases, Administration at Nagpur
Artisans: Team of 25 Artisans Senior Artisans – almost 4 + years of experience in building Bamboo Structures of various sizes.
Lady Artisans – No apprenticing to learn fabrication
After graduating from National Law University, Gandhinagar in 2011 he has been practicing as a Lawyer at Mumbai. He has handled various matters on the Civil and Corporate front at various Courts at Mumbai, apart from advising on varied legal issues. He is interested in the field of Bamboo and in specific, aims to connect Bamboo to the Hospitality sector.
Arvind V GLegal Advisor
Wonder Grass initiative Pvt. Ltd. 'Shuchita' - Sanitation Unit built with Bamboo August’ 2015
Orissa has 1.05 million hectares of forest under bamboo-plantation.
Annual out-turn (yield) of air-dry bamboo in Orissa is estimated to be 0.25 million tones
Total bamboo available = 0.25 million tones = 2,50,000 tones
Number of Bamboo poles per metric tone = 50 Poles of 5.5 meter
In case of Orissa Bamboo Poles available for consumption = 2.5 Lakhs X 50
= 1.25 Crore PolesIf we commit only 20% of the bamboo for construction
Total available bamboo poles for housing = 12,500,000 X 20% Bamboo poles for housing = 25 Lakhs Bamboo Poles
AS per our experience, we can safely assume 250 Bamboo Poles per housing unit
Housing units that can be built using committed bamboo-stock = 2,500,000 / 250
Bamboo: A Material for Future A Case for Bamboo and its potential in Housing – Case study Orissa
Only 20% of Annual Bamboo yield in Orissa is enough to provide 1 Lakh Units
