The Khudi Bari, or “tiny house” — resilient homes made on bamboo stilts rising out of the floodwaters that are also easy to move to safer locations when needed — offer hope to millions. A man works near a Khudi Bari, or “tiny house,” a mobile modular shelter, in Char Shildaha, Bangladesh, on Sept. 3. Architect Marina Tabassum, who designed the Khudi Bari, speaks during an interview at her office in Dhaka on Sept. 17. He said the architect has also used the Khudi Bari model to build a larger community center for Rohingya refugee women in the Bangladeshi camps. Tabassum is busy building more than a hundred Khudi Bari across Bangladesh to offer an example and inspiration for others.
