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  Project Title

  Anandoloy

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  Winning Firm
  
  

  Studio Anna Heringer

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  Lead Designer
  
  

  Anna Heringer

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  Awarded
  
  PLATINUM AWARD, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Environmental, Sustainable

• Project Link
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• Project Location
  Rudrapur, Dinajpur District, Bangladesh
• Project Status
  Completed
• Completion Date
  October, 2019
• Client
  Dipshikha Bangladesh
• General Contractor
  Montu Ram Shaw


• Architectural Firm
   
• Architect Firm / Studio Name
  Studio Anna Heringer
• Lead Architect(s)
  Anna Heringer
• About Firm
  Architect and honorary professor of the UNESCO Chair of Earthen Architecture, Building Cultures, and Sustainable Development, she is focusing on the use of natural building materials.Anna is lecturing worldwide at conferences, including TED and has been visiting professor at various universities such as Harvard, ETH Zurich and TU Munich.She received numerous honors and her work was widely published and exhibited in the MoMA New York, the V&A Museum London and at the Venice Biennale among others.

Anandaloy Building hosts a center for people with disabilities and a small studio for the production of fair textiles (Dipdii Textiles). For Studio Anna Heringer, architecture is a tool to improve lives. The strategy of all of the projects is the use of local materials + local sources of energy (including manual labor) + global know-how. Because the Anandaloy project is mainly built out of mud and bamboo from local farmers, the biggest part of the budget was invested in local crafts(wo)men. Thus,the building is much more than just a structure, it became a real catalyst for local development.