A--D -- Homemade mud house

Homemade mud house

Dinajpur, Bangladesh

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Combines local building techniques with modern knowledge.

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Category:

housing

Phase:

in use

Design:

BASEhabitate & students of the BRAC University

Updated:

7 October 2011

materials and building techniques

Almost all the works were done by hand without the use of any technical machinery except for the mixing of the earth, water and rice straw mixture for which cows were used.

image: Md. Imrul Kayes, Architecture For Humanity-Dhaka | © all rights reserved

The two-storey mud-houses are part of the extension project of hand-made Meti-school, Rudropur, Bangladesh.

image: Md. Imrul Kayes, Architecture For Humanity-Dhaka | © all rights reserved

The first mud.

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Foundation.

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In the curtyard.

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Hamonto residence.

image: Md. Imrul Kayes, Architecture For Humanity-Dhaka | © all rights reserved

Rihani residence.

image: Md. Imrul Kayes, Architecture For Humanity-Dhaka | © all rights reserved

Sepal residence.

image: Md. Imrul Kayes, Architecture For Humanity-Dhaka | © all rights reserved

Hamonto residence.

image: Md. Imrul Kayes, Architecture For Humanity-Dhaka | © all rights reserved

Rihani residence.

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