Dabtong House

Projects

What we are working on.

A handful of long-running workstreams — all rooted in Bhutan and threaded through partnerships with international institutions.

  1. No. 01 With His Majesty's Secretariat

    Japanese Tea House in Thimphu

    A traditional Japanese tea house, built in Thimphu in partnership with His Majesty's Secretariat. A long-horizon project that takes architecture, craft, and ceremony seriously as a durable bridge between two cultures.

    Building
  2. No. 02 With Chiba Institute of Technology

    Academic Exchange (Bhutan → Japan)

    We identify Bhutanese candidates for Master's programs at the Chiba Institute of Technology and support them through recruitment, application, and the move abroad. Scholarships flow through our university partners and their grantors; Dabtong House handles the in-country side.

    Ongoing
  3. No. 03 With Henkaku Center

    Bhutan AI Community

    Meet-ups, study groups, and events around agentic coding for builders in Bhutan. Most recently, Dabtong House supported a blockchain bootcamp and hackathon in Thimphu by sponsoring Claude accounts for participants.

    Active
  4. No. 04 With MIT Center for Bits and Atoms

    Voxels

    Voxels are programmable, reversibly-assembled units of matter — think 3D pixels you can build into larger structures, take apart, and reuse. Dabtong House supports MIT's voxel research in Bhutan and connects it with Japanese material-science faculty.

    Ongoing
  5. No. 05 With CST, Chiba Tech & GovTech

    Satellite Project

    Students jointly building small satellites (EduSats), with payload development at CST in Phuentsholing, and integration and launch with Chiba Tech, with support from GovTech.

    Building