Report # 143 : Mud House of Bangladesh
by Amrita Das, Mohammad Shariful Islam, Dr. Md. Jahangir Alam, Nusrat Hoque In Bangladesh, a mud house is one of the traditional housing types that are used by poor families mainly in rural areas as well as in the outskirts of small cities. This building type is typically one or two stories and preferably used […]
Report # 91 : Single-storey brick masonry house (EMSB1)
by Mehedi Ansary This is a one-story brick masonry house of fired bricks with cement or lime mortar; roof is either GI sheet or another material. These houses can be seen throughout Bangladesh. During the 1918 Srimangal, 1930 Dhubri, and other recent earthquakes, this type of housing suffered heavy damage. Houses with a continuous lintel […]