ANNA HERINGER

LIST OF PROJECTS
• METI school, Bangladesh
• DESI Centre, Bangladesh
• K.K.Modi University Campus
• Wormser Dom's sanctuary interiors
• Bamboo Hostels, China
• Anondoloy
• Kindergarten, Zimbabwe
• Omicron Monolith
• Omicron Relaxing Spaces
• Teaching Centre, Morocco
• Ways Of Life
• LD Arena
• Majiayao Masterplan
• Ceramics Museum
• HOMEmade
• Rudrapur - Village study

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Architecture is a tool to improve lives. 
The vision behind, and motivation for my work is to explore and use
architecture as a medium to strengthen cultural and individual
confidence, to support local economies and to foster the ecological
balance. Joyful living is a creative and active process and I am
deeply interested in the sustainable development of our society and
our built environment. For me, sustainability is a synonym for
beauty: a building that is harmonious in its design, structure,
technique and use of materials, as well as with the location, the
environment, the user, the socio-cultural context. This, for me, is
what defines its sustainable and aesthetic value.
Anna Heringer (born 13 October 1977 in Rosenheim) is a German architect. A proponent of sustainable architecture, she
has designed a number of notable buildings including the METI Handmade School in Rudrapur, Bangladesh

Heringer grew up in Laufen, Bavaria, in the far south of Germany. She studied architecture at
the University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria, graduating in 2004. Her interest in
Bangladesh began in 1997 when she spent a year carrying out voluntary work there, specially in the NGO
Dipshikha, where she learned about sustainable development work. There she also founded her main
thought about the most successful strategy, always obtained by trusting the already existing, readily
available resources and to make the best out of them instead of becoming dependent on external
systems.

Awards
•Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2007) for the METI School.
•Bronze for Africa and Middle East, Regional Holcim Awards
competition 2011, for the Training Center in Marrakesh.
•Global Award for Sustainable Architecture (2011).
 METI SCHOOL , BANGLADESH

"The final result (...) is a building that creates beautiful,

meaningful and humane collective spaces for learning, so
enriching the lives of the children it serves." [Jury of The
Aga Khan Award for Architecture 10th Circle] 

• Thick walls that keep classrooms cool

• Hung shutters that allow natural daylight and ventilation
• Colourful saree material contrasts the school’s earth tone
walls
DESI Trainingcenter, Rudrapur, Bangladesh

DESI (Dipshikha Electrical Skill Improvement) is a

vocational school for electrical training. The DESI building
houses two classrooms, two offices, and two residences for
the school instructors. There is a separate bathroom with
two showers and two toilets for the teachers and a
bathroom facility with toilets and sinks on the ground floor
for the students. 
The relatively small solar panel and battery system provides 100% of the building’s
energy needs. A solar thermal heating system provides warm water. Solar panels
also directly power a motor which pumps water from a well into the water tank. The
toilets have their own two chamber septic tank. During construction only 4 drilling
machines were needed, anything else was animal or man power, materials were
locally sourced.
 THREE HOSTELS ( BAOXI,CHINA )

The three hostels - the dragon, the nightingale and the peacock -
aim to show a quite radical example of building simple yet poetic
and humane in a way that it pushes the skills of local craftsmen
onto a new level and leaves the biggest part of the profit with the
community. 
The clients and initiators of this project as well as my aim is to
proof that we can create safe, beautiful and humane architecture
with natural building materials, in this case particularly with
bamboo. 

With our planet`s limited resources it is not possible to build for

seven billion people safe and good houses in steel and concrete
only. The use of natural building materials is vital in order to
enable a sustainable and fair development. Natural materials
such as bamboo and mud often have a bad image. We need pilot
projects like the one in the Bamboo Biennale to proof the
excellent structural quality as well as their beauty and uniqueness
in order to anchor them in contemporary architecture. Using non
standardized, natural, local building materials will lead to more
diversity in urban and rural regions, will enrich the culture of
China`s contemporary architecture and preserve our planet`s
ecosystem.