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JITA SOCIAL BUSINESS CENTER FOR RURAL WOMEN
Design-Build Location: Rangpur and Saiadpur

Project Lead: Chinton Architects User: Rural Women Entrepreneurs
Client: JITA- a CARE and DANONE Social Venture.
Area of single center: 1322.Sq. foot Each center Cost: $15000
Project Architect: Md. Imrul Kayes, Ishak Mia
Design & Build Team: Imrul Kayes, Neeman Karim, Ishak Mia, Bushra Hossain,
Raicha, Apu Roy, Azit Roy. Construction: SAFE Bangladesh

The construction of the social business centre employs the locally available
materials earth and bamboo. Adapting and improving traditional construction
techniques, the building provides an example of how local skills can be used
to secure a future for the rural region. The use of stabilized earthen block with
treated bamboo framing, bamboo furniture, innovative light shade using bamboo
and the construction techniques contrasts strongly with the prevailing trend
to more expensive and energy-intensive construction methods using concrete
and masonry that is evident in the region as it is in many other parts of the world.
Both the construction and the purpose of the building intend to strengthen the
infrastructure of this rural region in the most densely populated country of the world.

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