Coastal Shelter Design Lab
A memorandum of understanding for joint workshops and site visits for design students on building in flood-prone and coastal districts, starting with a two-week workshop in Satkhira in July 2026.
Collaboration and news
Partnerships
Nodi Metalworks Cooperative
An agreement to develop and test perforated screens and folded steel stairs with a cooperative of sheet-metal workshops in Dholaikhal, Old Dhaka, sharing tooling and time in each other's workshops.
Brick & Earth Research Collective
A memorandum of understanding to test low-fired brick and compressed stabilised-earth blocks for walls and paving, publish the results, and host two student placements a year in the studio.
News
A larger workshop in Tejgaon
Our metal and joinery workshop has moved to a larger space in Tejgaon, with room to build full-size prototypes of doors, screens and stairs.
A student workshop in Satkhira on building for floods
Twenty students spent two weeks in Satkhira with the Coastal Shelter Design Lab, measuring raised homesteads and testing plinth details.
Testing recycled aluminium for facade screens
Tests on recycled aluminium sheet for perforated screens: how it folded, how it took a finish, and what we will test next.
Community Library opens in Rajshahi
The library opened to readers in December. Notes on the roof, the spine wall and the order in which the building went up.
An agreement with Nodi Metalworks Cooperative
We have signed a memorandum of understanding with a cooperative of sheet-metal workshops in Dholaikhal to develop and test screens and stairs.
Riverside Office Block after three monsoons
We went back to Narayanganj to see how the building has held up: the balconies, the raised plinth and the changes tenants have made.
