Tabassum’s Khudi Bari (Bengali for “tiny home”) is an instance of a modular cellular residence that, in Bangladesh, is cheap, sturdy, and comparatively fast and simple to assembled and disassembled with minimal labor, making the most of a inflexible space-frame construction to avoid wasting items and lives within the wake of flash floods on tiny “desert islands” of sand generally known as “chars” that precariously dot throughout the Bengal delta. Land is fluid on the floodplains of Bangladesh, and these islands usually break off and erode into the water, forcing individuals to bodily transfer their residence. Khudi Bari reminds us to look to regionally rooted information to innovate options for unsure futures. Desert X has commissioned a movie concerning the mission wherein Tabassum addresses dry and moist cultures and the position of design in enabling life in a few of the world’s most excessive local weather situations.
