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Check out Khudi Bari by Marina Tabassum at the Vitra Campus

Khudi Bari means “small house” in Marina Tabassum's native Bangladeshi language. Newly constructed in the green spaces of the Vitra Campus, right in front of Piet Oudolf's garden, the compact volume of the building lives up to its name. Small, clean and beautiful, it appears delicate and almost disappears among the treetops around it. But don't be fooled; its design represents a mammoth idea, a robust and efficient construction conceived after lengthy research to cope with the significant natural and man-made disasters suffered by the architect's home country of Bangladesh.

Khudi Bari's installation on the site of the famous site in Weil am Rhein, Germany, tells all these stories and more and is a celebration of Tabassum's thinking. This dynamic, important example of her hyperlocal thinking and socially motivated work is now part of one of the world's most famous collections of architectural structures.

(Photo credit: Julien Lanoo)

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