Khudi Bari - A modular mobile house for climate victims

Khudi Bari - meaning ‘Tiny House’ - is a modular monsoon shelter that’s designed by the Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum. It’s made for inhabitants of the country’s Ganges river delta (where entire swathes of land can flood overnight), and can be hand-assembled using local materials, with a cost of just £300. AKT II’s team was engaged to reconfigure the shelter’s structural supports so that it could be demonstrated, using the thinner bamboo that’s available in the UK, as part of the 2022 Summer Exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts.
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With thanks to:
Royal Academy of Arts:
Nancy Cooper and all the team
Curators:
Rana Begum
Níall McLaughlin
MTA Architects:
Marina Tabassam
Arman Abedin
Kazi Akif
Asif Salman
NMLA:
Holly Galbraith
Alastair Browning
AKT II (Structural engineering materials and fabrication):
Edoardo Tibuzzi
Martin Ocampo
Alexandra Toivonen
Joel Hilmersson
Kohsaku Mitsuhashi
Danae Polyviou
Alessandro Margnelli
Jan Friedlein
Mark Harrington
Littlehampton Welding (Fabrication of recycled aluminium nodes):
Martin Norrell
Neil Fry
AiBuild (3D printed experimental node):
Aimee-May Graham
Berin Kocabas
Daghan Cam
Michail Desyllas
Gymsdyke Farm:
Guan Lee
Nigel Tucker
Asif Salman and City Syntax for the Bangladesh footage.
Film by AKT II
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