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. Project page: https://www.akt-uk.com/projects/khudi... 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 © 2022 AKT II Check out more world-class engineering on our website here: https://www.akt-uk.com