Sarakshit Ghar: A Safe Home: Documenting the changes in earthquake-resistant construction elements in the housing of the Kathmandu Valley in the period of 1769 - 2023

Being a highly earthquake-prone country, Nepal gets hit by a major earthquake roughly every 80-100 years. The recent major tremor in 2015 showed how the houses in the Kathmandu Valley were not ready: 9000 lives and half a million houses were lost. <br/>This thesis describes the changes in earthquake-resistant elements in the residential...