How architects are designing buildings for Bangladesh’s tropical monsoon climate

COMMUNITIES ON THE Ganges delta in Bangladesh have lived between land and water for centuries. Most of the country is fewer than five metres above sea level; monsoon season lasts for four months, and it brings 80% of the annual rainfall . Here, when the waters subside, buildings are erected quickly from wooden frames and corrugated metal sheets. If an area becomes uninhabitable, the structures can be dismantled and rebuilt with the same layout.

Rafiq Azam, the founder of Shatotto architects, is working on more than 20 projects in Dhaka, revitalising abandoned public parks and dengue-fever-infested waterways. “Almost all the green space in Old Dhaka plays host to vagrants and illegal activities,” he says.

Peter Clegg, a founding partner of Feilden Clegg Bradley, a British architecture firm, took a different approach when building the Aga Khan Academy , a not-for-profit school, which will open on a 20-acre plot in Dhaka in 2020. “Buildings need to cope with flash flooding,” he says. “They must be able to tolerate up to eight inches of rainwater for just a few hours”. Designed in collaboration with Shatotto, the academy is elevated from the ground.

Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)

Somewhat deceptive to use a picture of the multi-million Aga Khan project under a headline of the floating Arcadia Education Project - which is a very inexpensive, low, bamboo structure built on rusting steel oil drums, so will last 20 years, tops.

Commendable.

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