Vernacular Home
The Vernacular Home in Bangladesh is designed using local materials, mud, bamboo, straw, and bricks made from local soil. Responding to hot climates and long monsoons, it features a steep roof, a raised veranda, and cross ventilation for passive cooling. Openings on windward and leeward walls release heat, while double brick cavities insulate. Clay pots embedded in the tea house wall cool the air. Using liter bottles of light for interiors, the home includes bedrooms, a kitchen, a toilet, cow sheds, and a tea house with a retail supporting their livelihood while ensuring privacy.
Vernacular Home Rural House by Xinyun Li was highlighted as a grand example of industrial design by the A' Design Award & Competition. Vernacular Home Rural House won the Iron A' Design Award in Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design in 2026. The A' Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design Award is a juried, academic and highly prestigious design recognition program which celebrates outstanding design of sustainable projects, environment friendly designs, recycled, upcycled, bio-degradable products, Energy-Efficient appliances and more.
