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SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE FOR AN ACID VICTIM
Design-Build Location, Manikganj

Project Lead: AFH-Dhaka. Client: Farida and her Son
Area: 300 Sq. foot Cost: $1700
Funding: Foreign private donor.
Project Architect: Imrul Kayes
Design team: Dhaka chapter team, Caitlin Harrison, Farida and her family.
Construction: Self-made along with community people.

This project was to support Caitlin Harrison a journalist from Australia visited
Bangladesh and meet one of the acid victim survivors. Later she managed a
private donor and contacted AFH-Dhaka to help design and build a house for
Farida. We considered to follow a self-made strategy and involved Farida and her
extended family members along with other community women in all aspect and
phases. The design and construction process was responsive to the actual needs
of the owner and her son. Beside that The local construction techniques were
improved in terms of structural stability, Joint details and protection against rain
and rising damp. Attempt was made to express solidarity and enabling her to
eventually call this as her own ‘home’.

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