Vernacular Home
Vernacular Home Rural House by Xinyun Li is a winner of the 2026 Iron A' Design Award in Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design.
Vernacular Home is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations.
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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.
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Vernacular Home by Xinyun Li
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Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design Award Winner in 2026.
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Vernacular Home Rural House
Vernacular Home is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Vernacular Home is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Vernacular Home is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Winner Designer
Xinyun Li
Xinyun Li is a New York–based registered architect and multidisciplinary designer working at the intersection of architecture, technology, and cultural narrative. She holds a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and has worked professionally at Perkins Eastman, KPF, and Laguarda.Low Architects. Her experience spans large-scale mixed-use districts, office towers, institutional environments, residential development studies, and human-centered healthcare spaces, with a focus on design quality, feasibility, and user experience. Alongside professional practice, Xinyun develops conceptual and research-driven work exploring how architecture can be a medium of expression.
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