CLIMATOLOGY -1
CASE STUDY : METI Handmade School , Bangladesh
Architect : Anna Heringer
Group 8:
Galina Thimmiah
Neha Changappa
Maithri Patwardhan
Rushil Jain
SITE AND CONTEXTCL-1 |
The METI Handmade School, a primary school for 168 students
located in Rudrapur in Dinajpur district of Bangladesh, was built
with the assistance of local craftsmen making use of traditional
materials, primarily mud and bamboo.
The project is located in the compound of a Bangladeshi NGO, Dipshikha.
•The school is in the village of Rudrapur, about ten hours
by road from Dhaka. The 370- kilometre drive is
gruelling, but passes through beautiful verdant
countryside and rice-fields. The site is near Dinajpur, in
the northwest of the country close to the Indian border.
•The only buildings you see are the farmers’ houses,
which have mud walls and straw-thatched roofs
•The climate is generally mild in winter and hot in
summer.
•The immediate surroundings consist of rice fields and
cornfields. The whole of the countryside is well irrigated;
there’s plenty of water body and bamboo forests nearby.
The water bodies around helps to induce air movement
in hot days.
Bangladesh is a fertile alluvial land in the Gulf of Bengal and the land with
the highest population density in the world.
• They are immature and have weak profiles due to their recent origin.
• Most of the soil is Sandy and clayey soils are not uncommon.
• Pebbly and gravelly soils are rare. Kankar (calcareous concretions) beds
are present in some regions along the river terraces.
• The soil is porous because of its loamy (equal proportion of sand and
clay) nature.
• Porosity and texture provide good drainage and other conditions
favorable for agriculture. Dinajpur experiences a hot, wet and humid tropical climate. Under the Köppen
• These soils are constantly replenished by the recurrent flood climate classification, Dinajpur has a tropical wet and dry climate.
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SOLAR ORIENTATIONCL-1
Sun angle in Summers: Steep
Implications: Roofs the most hot
shown “N” and the sun paths over
the basic plan of the building in
summer and winter respectively
Sun angle in winters: shallow
Implications: daylight through the
openings
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THERMAL COMFORTCL-1
• Min Temp : 10 C – Jan
• Max Temp: 32 C - May
• Min RH: 43% - March
• Max RH: 100% - Sep
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DAYLIGHTING CL-1
GROUND FLOOR: No openings in the FIRST FLOOR: There are bamboo shutters all around
caves region, but there are openings in the building.
the front facade. These are the source of light into the first floor, and
Hence, the daylight is from those these also help in regulating the diffusion on light
openings only. into the floor during summer or winters.
NATURAL | CL-1
VENTILLATION
The roof is made of steel but there are colorful sari fabrics
hanging below the ceiling. The saris block the heat from the
steel from radiating directly into the room. There is also a
ventilated gap between the steel and the saris, and as the air
in this space heats up, it causes an updraft and ventilates the
classroom below.
The classrooms rely on cross-ventilation, and the upper floor in
particular is very airy with a light bamboo construction. These
walls have openings with shades made of woven bamboo and by
opening and closing these shades, the amount of air and sun
entering the room can be regulated. When the shades are closed,
air still flows in and out through the gaps but solar heat radiation
is mostly blocked
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SHADING DEVICESCL-1
The panels, made of small bamboo sticks,
provide shadow and air for a good
temperature
Fabric hung across the
openings to block the light .
Irregular opening in the
ground floor at a lower
height to allow minimum
radiations inside.
BUILDING | CL-1
MATERIALS
Bangladesh is a fertile alluvial land in the Gulf of Bengal and the land
with the highest population density in the world. On average nearly
1000 people live in every square kilometre and that is high foot
traffic.
The building rests on a 50cm deep brick
masonry foundation rendered with a facing
cement plaster. Bricks are the most common
product of Bangladesh’s building
manufacturing industry. Bangladesh has
almost no natural reserves of stone and as
an alternative the clayey alluvial sand is fired
in open circular kilns into bricks.
BUILDING | CL-1
MATERIALS
The upper storey façades are clad with
window frames covered with bamboo strips
and coupling elements hung onto the
columns of the frame construction. A fifth
layer of cob walling provides a parapet
around the upper storey forming a bench
running around the perimeter of the
building and anchoring the upper storey
frame construction and roof against wind
from beneath. A textile ceiling is hung
beneath the roof is lit from behind in the
evening. The cavity behind the textiles
ventilates the roof space.
