Community Spaces in Rohingya Refugee Response Building, Teknaf Architecture Photos
Community Spaces in Rohingya Refugee Response, Bangladesh
2 June 2022
Architects: Rizvi Hassan, Khwaja Fatma, Saad Ben Mostafa
Location: Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar District, Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh, South Asia
Community Spaces in Rohingya Refugee Response
Aerial view of the Shantikhana Women Friendly Space in Camp 4ext. The construction started before the design was finalised, allowing the local Rohingya workers to express their artisanal skills and artistic freedom:

Photos: Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Asif Salman (photographer)
Community Spaces in Rohingya Refugee Response in Bangladesh
Rather than separate projects, the six sustainably built structures in the world?s largest refugee camps, housing Rohingya fleeing Myanmar?s genocidal violence, are a collection of practice exercise: Each created scope for the next according to need. Much of the design occurred collaboratively in the field. Aerial view of the Safe Space for Women and Girls in Camp 25. The activity areas and rooms are organised around an open courtyard, connecting them into one larger space:

A women-friendly space, very low to withstand cyclones, features a complex roof truss built by Rohingya bamboo workers without drawings or models.
Shantikhana Women Friendly Space in Camp 4ext: Eight main rooms of different shapes are arranged in a horse-shoe pattern around a central courtyard. A large roof made of bamboo an...