Selected projects move between community construction, curatorial research and institutional design — each asking how landscape can hold water, memory and hope.
Khudi Bari
A modular bamboo housing system for Bangladesh’s char communities displaced by climate-driven river erosion. Sabiha works on the implementation team of FACE, the Foundation for Architecture and Community Equity, which co-builds Khudi Bari units with communities across Bangladesh and in Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. The project received the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
Absence as an Artifact
A curatorial project for the Curatorial Intensive South Asia 2025, exhibited at Khoj Studios, New Delhi, 12–22 March 2026. It engages the displacement of the “Nowhere People” of the Kaptai Reservoir in Rangamati — around 100,000 people displaced between 1959 and 1963 by the construction of the Kaptai dam. The inquiry draws on a colonial photographic archive of 104 images of the Kaptai region, taken in 1927 by Julius Konietzko, encountered through the Leaky Archive fellowship (2022) at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne.
Bengal Institute
As a Senior Research & Design Associate at the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements in Dhaka, Sabiha contributed research and design on architecture, landscapes and settlements — including strategic analysis on planning through the pandemic and research that informs public debate on how Bangladesh should build.