BAM-S — Bangladesh Arise Material System

Resilient housing system developed for Bangladesh as part of the World Bank Group’s Resilient Homes Design Challenge (2019). Co-authored with an international team (Asciutti, Galli, Azzolin, Gonzales Burgos, Macedo, Kieling, Farias, Pedretti, Elsayed) and published by the World Bank in Washington, DC, edited by Ivan Shumkov and Saurabh Dani, with a foreword by Dr. Kristalina Georgieva.

BAM-S proposes a low-cost, locally buildable material system designed to withstand the flooding and cyclones that regularly displace communities across Bangladesh — applying the same rehabilitative design logic used across Santiago’s heritage and urban work to disaster-resilient housing.