Towards a Self-sustained Detached House in Bangladesh
(2026) AEBM01 20241Division of Energy and Building Design
- Abstract
- Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, and Rapid urbanization has been a notable trend, with the urban population increasing from 5% to 42% between 1972 and 2023. This internal migration has led to a surge in demand for housing in cities like Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, and Khulna. It is found from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) that each year, 200,000 units were registered as new households. This demand in service needs to be designed to be as self-sufficient as possible, and it can survive without government support. Decreasing the everyday load on the taxpayer’s money and finding ways to cater to a large portion of the population participating. A case study house was taken as to study how this... (More)
- Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, and Rapid urbanization has been a notable trend, with the urban population increasing from 5% to 42% between 1972 and 2023. This internal migration has led to a surge in demand for housing in cities like Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, and Khulna. It is found from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) that each year, 200,000 units were registered as new households. This demand in service needs to be designed to be as self-sufficient as possible, and it can survive without government support. Decreasing the everyday load on the taxpayer’s money and finding ways to cater to a large portion of the population participating. A case study house was taken as to study how this house performs within its context and regarding investment and return in time, energy, money, and environmental impact. Forming four broad categories and designing four alternative options focusing time, energy, money and environment each at a time on the basis of literature survey and authors working experience. These four categories then tested with simulation softwares, formulas, standards and survey of the involved personnel in the profession. The result showed that among all the alternative options compared to the Reference, the time efficient model is the best performer and environment option is the second-best choice. The study stretches further to discover possibilities of clean energy production and its implications for the project. (Less)
- Popular Abstract
- Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. It is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. Climate change affects one of the most fundamental sectors, e.g., housing, for the growing population. There are around 100,000 villages in the country, and every year, at least two houses are registered for construction as permanent structures for 50 years. Among houses, many are built as detached houses in villages rather than in cities, as cities are failing to accommodate demand and are not built as planned to mitigate the emergence.
The author of this study built some houses on the country's fringe based on the above-mentioned background. Initially, the houses were built as an affordable option. In... (More) - Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. It is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. Climate change affects one of the most fundamental sectors, e.g., housing, for the growing population. There are around 100,000 villages in the country, and every year, at least two houses are registered for construction as permanent structures for 50 years. Among houses, many are built as detached houses in villages rather than in cities, as cities are failing to accommodate demand and are not built as planned to mitigate the emergence.
The author of this study built some houses on the country's fringe based on the above-mentioned background. Initially, the houses were built as an affordable option. In this study, two houses are studied later named as base case situated in the same district, one in an urban and one in a rural context, on the basis of Energy efficiency and Environmental effectiveness. For this study, the contemporary iron triangle method, popular in construction project management literature, was used, with Time, Quality, and Cost. For” Quality”, the study applies Passive measures, and another parameter called Environmental effectiveness is added to the study. Each Base Case has four alternative naming Passive measures: Environmental effective, Cost effective, and Time effective, which are studied using a combination of simulations, formulas, and the author's experience as an Architect. Later the study formulates a iron Pyramid to evaluate the alternatives in a 3D space where it shows a little change in the alternative will affect the other parameters.
From results it has ben found that the Time effective model and the environmental effective model are among the best performing model as the first one uses less material for construction and the other one uses low carbon embodied material. Results found a coincidental relation between CO2 emission and construction cost in Bangladeshi currency also. The study was limited to Energy efficiency and Sustainability, and it did not conduct any Hygroscopic investigation to find a moisture-safe construction. Being a riverine region with a defined rainy season, an inquiry for a moisture-safe study shall be carried out for future studies.
This study creates a database of possible options in the form of an Iron Pyramid and can accommodate thousands of options possible in a selected boundary condition. It can guide through the designing process of an Architects in future days to come. (Less)
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- author
- Mukul, Kobir Hasan
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- AEBM01 20241
- year
- 2026
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- energy efficiency, housing
- language
- English
- id
- 9222818
- date added to LUP
- 2026-02-17 16:17:03
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abstract = {{Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, and Rapid urbanization has been a notable trend, with the urban population increasing from 5% to 42% between 1972 and 2023. This internal migration has led to a surge in demand for housing in cities like Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, and Khulna. It is found from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) that each year, 200,000 units were registered as new households. This demand in service needs to be designed to be as self-sufficient as possible, and it can survive without government support. Decreasing the everyday load on the taxpayer’s money and finding ways to cater to a large portion of the population participating. A case study house was taken as to study how this house performs within its context and regarding investment and return in time, energy, money, and environmental impact. Forming four broad categories and designing four alternative options focusing time, energy, money and environment each at a time on the basis of literature survey and authors working experience. These four categories then tested with simulation softwares, formulas, standards and survey of the involved personnel in the profession. The result showed that among all the alternative options compared to the Reference, the time efficient model is the best performer and environment option is the second-best choice. The study stretches further to discover possibilities of clean energy production and its implications for the project.}},
author = {{Mukul, Kobir Hasan}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Towards a Self-sustained Detached House in Bangladesh}},
year = {{2026}},
}