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Architecture in Bangladesh, Pabna (2025)

09/05/2025

Aga Khan Academy / Shatotto

Schools, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Architects: Shatotto
Area: 40000 m²
Year: 2022
Photographs:Asif salman, Sarker Protick, SHATOTTO architecture for green living
Lead Architects: Rafiq Azam & Peter Clegg
Consultants: Shatotto Architecture for Green Living, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.
Structural Consultant: AKT- II, TDM
MEP Consultant: Max Fordham & EMCS
Landscape Consultant: SHATOTTO & GHORAMI.JON
Contractor: Charuta Private Limited
Category: Schools
Design Team (Shatotto): Sabrin Zinat Rahman, Kaiser Rabbani, Arafat Sarker, Sonia, Redwan, Fayez, Aliza, Shylin Islam
Design Team (Fcb Studios): Peter Clegg, Ian Taylor, Felix Hobson, Rachel Sayers, Jo Gimenez
Resident Architect: Edrish Bhuiyan Almas
Brick Consultant: Mahmudul Hasan Nahid, Mehedi Hasan Prince.
City: Dhaka
Country: Bangladesh
Source: Archdaily
Text description provided by the architects. The Aga Khan Academy in Dhaka, collaboratively designed by SHATOTTO architecture for green living and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS), is inspired by the region's old Buddhist Mahaviharas, incorporating their historic architecture and architectural philosophy.

Set upon a 74,150 sqm land area, situated next to a busy road in Dhaka, the design focuses on creating a green lung within the dense city fabric. The intricate brick composition of the Aga Khan Academy aligns with the climatic effects of the tropical region, allowing summer winds and winter sun to enter.
The Maidan is a genius loci at the academy's center. It is one of the key elements derived from the Buddhist Mahaviharas, reflecting the importance that even the ancient Buddhists placed on maintaining a calm and spiritual environment for their students. The peripheral courtyards act as a threshold between the large Maidan and the indoor spaces. The interiors are designed to facilitate a naturally lit and comfortable learning environment for both students and faculty.
The sensitive design of these courtyards allows for age-specific programs. For example, the senior courtyard is designed to sit under planted trees, which inspires group activities that are carried out smoothly. Instead, the assembly court, adjacent to the academic block, is consciously kept devoid of any elements but for the four trees.

As the legend suggests, Dhaka derived its name from these "Dhaak trees. This encourages a didactic approach to learning. The central court is designed to accommodate a larger gathering. An amphitheater surrounds a sand pit that holds water for a certain period during a heavy shower, allowing the children to celebrate nature.

30/03/2025

Leelamrut by Design Team Architects

Surat,Gujarat,India
Architects : Design Team Architects
Area : 8718.77 sq. ft.
Year : 2024
Consultants : Contractor: Jatin Desai, Structure Engineer: S & V Engineers, Interior Styling: Sikha Shah, Textile Designer: Krishna Gonawala, Wall Art: Satyadeep Vadnere
Design Team : Ar. Kevin Naik
Lead Architect Designer : Ar. Kevin Naik
Source: Volume Zero

The name “Leelamrut” was after LEELA+AMRUT; the names of client’s grandparents, who are deeply rooted to their cultural core values. These values became main inspiration for Ar. Kevin Naik of Design Team Architects. These family values are tied with their native home in Dhamdachha village of Gandevi, Navsari.

To create equilibrium between three generations, with inclinations of traditional yet modern functioning home which should inherit their family legacy was the aim of design; all in addition with a touch of sustainability.
There is a theatrical play of exposed brickwork masses with exposed RCC and stonecrete plaster in exterior facade. The notion of elevation design is to use the very square exterior as a backdrop from which various forms of masses are extruded with puncture of openings and balconies to add porosity in solid forms.

“One should be able to absorb ample amount of natural light and air” said the client, thus the intervention of almost full heighted windows with wooden frames was created. To block the harsh sun of south, as a passive cooling element, the intricate terracotta brick jali was designed in herring bone pattern, which added the layer of intimacy of natural light into interiors.

“The home should be reflecting persona of people residing in”; is the driving force while composing material palette. The entrance stairway is imagined as a journey from lush green landscape to the humble abode. The dark granite flooring acts as a backdrop that highlights surrounding greenery. Yellow Jaisalmer sandstone is used as a path finder in this play of grey and green. The very space of entrance, geometrical pattern in flooring and the first step, called “yellow step” of Jaisalmer sandstone, are a mindful way of leading one further onto path.

The spatial arrangement is a play of volumes with smooth overlap of private and public spaces. The almost square plot is divided by central volumes; the double heighted dining space & the open staircase well. On one side of this volume is formal & informal living area and another has kitchen & parents’ bedroom space.

The upper floors are reserved for bedroom spaces. The double height volume of dining and staircase is divided by a bridge connecting master bedroom to daughters’ bedroom on second floor.

The interiors are play of a very few colors; mostly grey Kota floor with yellow sandstone highlighters, softness of wooden furnishing and a play of exposed RCC & exposed brickwork as a pinch of salt in all of it. A composition made up of intricate geometrical patterns in different furniture pieces and flooring that reflects earthen interior language.

30/03/2025

Longiness by Uru Consulting LLP

Palakkad,Kerala,India
Architects : Uru Consulting LLP
Area : 4200 sq.ft.
Year : 2023
Consultants : Design Spectrum
Design Team : Mohammed Siyad MC, Mohamed Shabeeb P, Safwan PM
Source: Volume Zero

Back in 2018, an expatriate’s untiring passion towards building the dream home for his family took him to Team Uru. Shahjahan Hyderali approached Uru with his dream of a separate house for him and his family, who were till then had been living as part of a joint family. Having a separate house did not mean separating themselves from their extended family, in fact the new house should reflect the values of a joint family, he requested Team Uru.

A 35cent rectangular plot at Kozhikkara, Palakkad, and a plan for a transverse cutting house: Project Longiness- It was the birth of the ambitious work by Team of Uru with the client Shahjahan Hyderali. Uru Consulting, a Design, Management and Engineering Consultancy based in Kozhikode, was built on the indestructible foundation of friendship and camaraderie of 4 school friends turned engineering graduates. Team Uru is led by Safder Machilakath, the principal consultant and Designer, and is vigorously complimented by the other 3 pillars- Muhammed Siyad MC, the Technical Lead, Mohammed Shabeeb P, Operations Lead, and Safwan PM, Finance Lead. Their togetherness nurtured Uru into a firm that is ever committed to sustainability, standing on the firm ground of integrated design.

Project Longiness was envisioned as an East-facing house, with a proposed road in front of it. The transverse cutting house was decided to be linearly placed. The plan made sure that sunlight poured in from the East in every room. The family living area was made open to the courtyard, the kitchen, and the stairs, adding to the vast openness of the structure. A Prayer room also was made accessible from the family living. The client’s vision of the house was about having more interactive spaces and Team Uru brought it into a beautiful possibility through making use of the space around the stairs for a courtyard cm seating area. The aesthetic background of the courtyard was given a cement finish with its arche-concrete texture. For the jali work, a special kind called camp jally was brought in, which would protect the living area from the harsh rays of sunlight from the West, at the same time keeping the flow of the natural light. The jally work also was meant to keep the space breezy but not too windy. To preserve the light, the roofing at this part was done with a combination of steel and glass. Plants placed near the seating added to the elegance and freshness of the place. The stairs were made of steel and Teak wood, with glass handrail.

The kitchen was designed to be open in style which was one of the demands of the client. The ample storage was done in White and Teak colour combination, with the countertop in white tile. Lower part of the storage had white mica finish whereas the upper part of the it had Teak finish veneer. A large window also was given. Black and white tiles were used for the kitchen walls. A working kitchen was also given for the open kitchen.

In this four-bedroom house, two bedrooms were placed on either side of the family living area, both rooms with attached bathrooms. The rest of the two bedrooms were situated on the first floor, including the master bedroom with maximum bedspace, with separate dressing area. The client requested for a Terrace pool, especially when the bigger family got together on vacations. Since the pool was done on a stringent budget and on a small space, it was designed as a plunge pool placed at the upper part of the kitchen. For extra privacy, jally work was given.

The vehicular entry for Project Longiness was from the road on the East side. A detached porch was added to the plan. The front yard was paved with Tandur stone. The front of the house had a sit-out that led to a foyer area and to that to the formal living area. The project was planned with four levels of elevation. The Southernmost elevation was kept the tallest, to prevent the harsh sun from the South. A Neutral colour palette was used with the shades of carbon copy, light grey, white, with exposed cement- concrete finish.

Uru Consulting LLP

In 2023, as the project got to its finishing stage, no compromise on quality was made for the interiors as well. Interior was designed separately, with the royal finesse of Teak wood. This contemporary-style house with the comeliness of linearity, is quite modern in its temperament, just like its inhabitants. The very presence of the open spaces inside the house, mirrors the progressive attitude of the client and family.

Hyderali named his home “Bayt Al Imarat,” echoing his love and gratitude for UAE. His inclusivity adds such charm to the house, celebrating familial bonds, beyond the nuclear family. Team Uru made this “Bayt Al Imarat” the client’s lifelong dream come true, with their undying spirit of building on people’s dreams, day after day.

28/03/2025

House # 396 / Architecture Paradigm

Houses India
Architects: Architecture Paradigm
Area: 8100 ft²
Year: 2024
Photographs:Shamanth Patil
Manufacturers: Bulthaup, Decorons Trinity, Schindler , Schuco, TOTO LTD.
Lead Architects: Manoj Ladhad, Sandeep J, Prajwal Krishna
Working Drawing & Detail Drawing: Sanskruti Agarwal
Interior: Architecture Paradigm
Structure: Base Engineering Services
Civil Contractor: Adni Project Managers LLP
Country: India
Source: Archdaily

Text description provided by the architects. The design brief for the house came from the client's need for a light-filled house as they previously lived in a dimly lit house. This factor along with their love for form-finished concrete that blends into the context without being overtly loud became the driving force for design.
The site located in a leafy suburb with detached houses in Bangalore is south-facing with two sausage trees on the footpath abutting the road. The positioning of the building and its internal zoning were dictated by these trees and the site orientation. A direct relationship between the inside and outside of the house is established due to two longitudinal zones of spaces located in the east and west. The zone on the west houses the programs that need enclosure and privacy while the zone on the east is predominantly open allowing for axial connection from the rear of the house to the front. The eastern zone is sectionally modulated to allow for lateral connection between various levels of the house.

The main areas of the house operate in two levels: the first and the second. This elevated condition allows for secondary programs to be tucked beneath or occupied above the volume of the main house. The first two levels house the living, dining, open kitchen, 3 bedrooms, and a courtyard. Three large apertures, two of them facing south and the other facing the sky define the relationship of the house to its surroundings. The second floor of the house connects to the terrace level through a double-height space while the ground floor of the house is detached and connected only through an internal lift access. The rootedness of the house to the context is accentuated by a sunken area and garden on the ground. This move also allows for modulation in the ceiling height for larger programmatic spaces. Black-clad granite walls and black kadapa flooring in the perimeter of the sunken zone and garden with pergola-lined slits add to the idea of inhabiting an excavated cavernous space. Large sliding folding doors enclosing this area from the parking side allow for the space to open up or be limited based on the client's requirement.

The living room on the first floor is accessed through a set of cantilevered bars acting as stairs that provide relief and a green visual in the tight-bounded corner in the southeast. The house is designed to reveal a sequence of spaces combining compactness and expansiveness. From the confined foyer, one is led towards a large wood-paneled walled space that limits the western zone from the east. On the left, the living room is situated with a large aperture towards the south framed by the two sausage trees. Onto the right is the courtyard with the aperture towards the sky that allows for constant light deep into the house independent of the vagaries of direction. Mat black floor along with a semi-smooth texture of form-finished concrete, smooth wood-paneled walls, and white surfaces absorb and reflect light from these apertures to create a Chiaroscuro effect in a poetic way. The trees on the south cast playful shadows onto the interiors.

Light moves in various forms; dappled, in beams or reflected across the house due to these apertures thus becoming abstract scenery at once contemplative and vivid. Another large opening towards the northeast corner is deliberately placed to reflect light from the white surface of the neighboring house on the east and connect to small open spaces around owing to the diagonal axis. The L-shaped wall enclosing the court has been painted white to reflect light from the sky.

The second floor is accessed by a metal staircase wrapped in wood. The wood floor expands throughout the spaces on the second floor which provides a tactile base sympathetic to the natural materiality of the concrete wall and the wood-paneled walls. This level has a large double-height aperture on the south framing the lush foliage formed by the 2 trees and the sky. This expansive space is contrasted by a spiral staircase with habitable voids carved in poche. The contrast is further heightened by the red oxide flooring that spills over from the terrace level to the floor below. Towards the northern side of the expansive space is the courtyard void connecting to the floor below and a walkable skylight glass connecting to the terrace above. Another aperture towards the east diagonally connects the family room to the street below.

The terrace spaces are primarily designed for leisure and recreation. There is a raised deck fronting one of the sausage tree canopies and the other open deck is on the north side; Both are semi-covered with pergolas and a solar roof mounted on top. The materiality of these spaces is predominated by the ipe wooden deck, oxide floor, form finished concrete walls and painted corten surfaces.

In summary, the house seeks to maximize its location within the given context while blending various natural materials into a sort of coherent yet individualistic way. The programmatic definition of the spaces expressed as variously finished boxes on the exterior is akin to the material play within. The connections within the house make the inhabitants aware of each other and the external connections link the house strongly to its context.

28/03/2025

Big-Little House / Kamat & Rozario Architecture

Houses
Bengaluru, India
Architects: Kamat & Rozario Architecture
Area: 2450 ft²
Year: 2023
Photographs:Arjun Krishna Photography
Manufacturers: Dtale Modern, Greenply, Jaquar
Lead Architect: Lester Rozario
Structural Engineers: Studio RKC
Contractors: Suresh MC
Project Architect: Ananya Gupta
Architect: Somesh Mahatre
City: Bengaluru
Country: India
Source: Archdaily

Text description provided by the architects. Big-Little House is a small house with a small footprint built on a small plot but with large volumes. What makes this house large? One-fourth of the 1500 square foot plot is empty and left unbuilt for a garden. All the major living spaces, viz., the double-height living room, the family space, the dining, and the kitchen, are tied together by the fact that they all inhabit a large volume that overlooks the garden.
The car park was deliberately lowered in height such that the kitchen and dining that sit over it remain connected to the garden volume. This configuration led to split levels on the upper levels, which in turn helped bring down the overall volume of the building. The upper floors housed two bedrooms and a master bedroom with a common terrace.

The plot was situated right next to a eucalyptus plantation. For us, this was nothing but a vertical extension of the garden, and it gave the bedrooms upstairs a beautiful view as well. All elements in the living room, such as the staircase, are in metal so that they are light and see-through, making the living room and garden read as a single space.

The front façade of the building was designed as a brick screen to conceal some of the service areas, like the utility space, which was placed at the front of the building as per Vasu. The facade was an experiment in stacking bricks on the edge to create a playful surface. A large metal box cuts through this to create a connection to the street from the kid's bedroom.

27/03/2025

Dinh House Village / H2

Houses,Huu Bang, Vietnam
Architects: H2
Area: 500 m²
Year: 2023
Photographs:Hoang Le
Manufacturers: Croled, Gia Long, JSC, THẢO STEEL, Trung Hai IOT, Vietbeton
Interior Designers: Studio BAVI
Project Management: Studio BAVI
Architects: Tran Van Huynh, Nguyen Duy The
Structure And Me Engineering: Nguyen Van Hoa
Construction: Mr. Doan
Wood Work: Mr. Duy
Aluminum And Glasswork: Mr. Hiep
Swimming Pool Equipment: Mr. Minh
City: Huu Bang
Country: Vietnam
Source: Archdaily

Text description provided by the architects. The project reflects the personality of the homeowner with the desire to bring an open space filled with light and greenery, private spaces are limited to a minimum, the remaining are common and play spaces for children. Children explore every weekend when their parents let them visit their grandparents.The project uses mainly raw materials such as (green stone, gray laterite, washed stone, wood, and trees...) with the desire to bring closeness and familiarity with the homeowner's previous life and allow the project to integrate with the surrounding construction context.

1st floor: living room, kitchen, swimming pool, 01 bedroom
2nd floor: 01 bedroom, large common living space
3rd floor: 01 bedroom, 01 wooden block, reading room for children, worship room, and garden
4th floor: large garden for BBQ activities, her vegetable garden

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