METI School of Rudrapur, Bangladesh travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises, spa and resorts

The METI School of Radrapur in Bangladesh is a great school project in the islamic world. The school is a wonderful hand-built building that showcase amazing and locally-sensitive architecture. The project maintains a traditional identity while embracing modernity in both, its form and purpose.

The designers are Anna Heringer and Eike Roaswag. They developed the concept by considering local cultural, economic and ecological aspects. The school is based on regional construction and local materials, because the region is densely populated, flood pone region.

Designers improved the bamboo structural system and lashing. The rest of the construction was a collaborative effort between the architects, local people, students, parents and teachers. METI means Modern Education and Training Institude. At the middle of the project are the students, which helped from thick walls that keep their classrooms cool and hung the stutters that allow natural daylight and ventilation.

Every day students of the METI school have their shoes along an expansive veranda and enter the handmade structure built to bring out the best in them.