Marina Tabassum brings prefabricated Bangladeshi homes to Sharjah
Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum has erected three prefabricated houses at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, to highlight the families that relocate their homes as river channels move within the Bengal Delta.
Tabassum, who won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2016 for the Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, built the houses as part of her Inheriting Wetness installation at the triennial.
Her research is displayed within the three houses. She found that numerous families living near the Padma, Meghna and Jamura rivers own land that can be submerged for years at a time, but is reoccupied when the water recedes.
The houses, which can be purchased in kits of parts at markets in Bangladesh, are easy to assemble and disassemble, making them ideal for building on areas that are likely to be flooded. "The mobility of the system allows people to move their houses to a safer location during the times of erosion," Tabassum told Dezeen.
"The houses are handed down from one generation to the next. We found houses that are more than 60 years old, survived seven erosion [events] and three generations."
Photo is by Tom Ravenscroft
The large amounts of water flowing from the Himalayan mountains means that the river banks within the Bengal Delta often move, with people having to move as land submerges and appears.
Although humans have lived in this area for hundreds of years, land ownership within the region was formalised in the late 19th-century, with plots that can ...
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