SEARCH International Student Design Competition | “SUNDARBARI” – A Homestead in the Sundarbans
Project Details
AUTHOR NAME: Md. Shahadat Hossain
PROJECT TYPE: Int’ Student Competition
ACHIEVEMENT: Commendation Award
CONCEPT
| | RECREATION OF LIFELINE | |
Design Considerations:
- If somehow the dam is not able to protect the residents of Sundarbans from flood like disasters, our Floating Structure could be an ideal solution.
- Re-vibrating living statement to retreat and sustain in different situations like cyclone and flood.
- The idea for this monolithic structure has been taken from the classic hut designs of this very Bengal region, which shows the least resistance against rain-force during a cyclone.
- Materials like bamboo, that is environment-friendly, has good fibres strength and cost efficient, and re-usable plastic barrels, that are eco-friendly, cheap and renewable, were chosen.
- Providing sustainable options like solar panel, biogas plant, sock-pit, etc. in order to survive amidst flood and cyclone.
- Such course of actions would ensure uninterrupted continuation of daily activities following cyclone after-effects like flood and water-logging, that may persist for months.
- Bamboo has been chosen as the main raw material because it can fully mature within 1.5-2 years after plantation; therefore, the ecosystem would least affected.
- The construction materials have been carefully selected so that each are easily and locally available, local laborers are familiar and used-to with their working techniques and the authority or NGO in-charge can implement the architecture in times of disaster quickly.
- In-house Floating Vegetation system and Floating Fish Cultivation system in net have been adopted to facilitate and sustain growth of crops, plants and fishes despite the odds of salty soil or harmful flood water respectively.
- Organized all functions in a single structure that can serve an all-natural situation.
- At present bund is called only their lifeline, but if it brock there life will hampered . So, floating build form would be another one.
5-Point Objectives:
- Resilient to natural hazards like cyclone and flood- the design is based on the floatable light weight but strong structure and the shape of the house itself effective for least resistance air pressure.
- Sustainable by minimizing to the ecosystem- as the material is bamboo which has as accelerating growth, it can be replaced fast creating less damage to eco system and properly seasoned bamboo are very sustaining natural building material.
- The design is creative and valuing the culture by the shape (monolithic structure) which was used in this very Bengal region once and this shape has been creatively improvised by the bamboo structure which help to lessen the dead load so that the whole platform can float during the flood.
- Very affordable and cost-effective construction as the building materials are local and familiar to the local labour and less costly.
- As the material is locally available and familiar to the labour, its easily implementable in larger scale.
