School in Rudrapur
Rudrapur, Bangladesh
Aga Khan Award Winner
Recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2007.

This village school adapts the traditional materials of earth and bamboo to make them more durable. In terms of the earth construction, the most important technical advances were introducing a damp-proof course, adding a brick foundation and mixing straw into the loam. The potential of bamboo construction is demonstrated by the ceiling (a layering of bamboo sticks, bamboo boards and earth) and the first-floor walls and roof (a frame construction consisting of beams - four layers of joined bamboo sticks - and vertical and diagonal poles). The project was hand-built by local craftsmen, pupils and teachers working in collaboration with European volunteers.

Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture
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Rudrapur, Bangladesh
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Completed 2005
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Combined floor area: 325 m²; ground floor area: 275 m²
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Hand-Made School
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educational
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