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South Water Garden
South Water Garden
United Nations Road, Baridhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Other Projects by SHATOTTO architecture for green living
South Water Garden
United Nations Road, Baridhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Type
YEAR
2007
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
$50K - 100K
Dhaka, a ten thousand square kilometer city, having less than five percent green area with inconsistent
and unreliable infrastructure along with other persistent difficulties made
this city an urban mayhem. This “SouthWaterGarden”
apartment building though located at United
Nations Road, Baridhara diplomatic zone is not
much an exception in terms of green. But this particular site having a lake and
a narrow strip of green patch on the back side (west) of the plot is a fortune.
The deal between the landowner and developer was to divide the seven
thousand five hundred square feet plot in equal two pieces to construct two six
storied buildings of two thousand eight hundred square feet floor area each in
order to share equally.
In fact utilizing seventy five percent of the plot area as per rule was a
strong requirement from the clients put the design into a challenge in terms of
creating open green space. The design suggestion here was to take forty square
feet of small area from both the parties as good gesture, placing along with
eight feet gap of two buildings and five feet road set back as per rule in
order to create a two hundred square feet of only green patch in front of the
building on the east road. This arrangement also accompanying with no boundary
wall notion and little benches is a token of respect for the passer by and
community living around.
Basically these two buildings developed almost
similarly consisted of five apartments on ground floor as parking area. In plan,
the simple interior with required functional arrangements is connecting the
beautiful lake and large trees on the west, allowing the south east summer
breeze to go through the entire house with ample light round the day. The use
of exposed as cast structural beam and column exterior with terracotta brick in
fill is also a simple approach friendly to the subtropical climate of Dhaka.
The scheme also developed the two roof tops of the buildings as community
green with lawns and bushes around a small pavilion as a transformed
subtropical architectural vocabulary addressing the concern of “shortage of green space” in city.
and unreliable infrastructure along with other persistent difficulties made
this city an urban mayhem. This “SouthWaterGarden”
apartment building though located at United
Nations Road, Baridhara diplomatic zone is not
much an exception in terms of green. But this particular site having a lake and
a narrow strip of green patch on the back side (west) of the plot is a fortune.
The deal between the landowner and developer was to divide the seven
thousand five hundred square feet plot in equal two pieces to construct two six
storied buildings of two thousand eight hundred square feet floor area each in
order to share equally.
In fact utilizing seventy five percent of the plot area as per rule was a
strong requirement from the clients put the design into a challenge in terms of
creating open green space. The design suggestion here was to take forty square
feet of small area from both the parties as good gesture, placing along with
eight feet gap of two buildings and five feet road set back as per rule in
order to create a two hundred square feet of only green patch in front of the
building on the east road. This arrangement also accompanying with no boundary
wall notion and little benches is a token of respect for the passer by and
community living around.
Basically these two buildings developed almost
similarly consisted of five apartments on ground floor as parking area. In plan,
the simple interior with required functional arrangements is connecting the
beautiful lake and large trees on the west, allowing the south east summer
breeze to go through the entire house with ample light round the day. The use
of exposed as cast structural beam and column exterior with terracotta brick in
fill is also a simple approach friendly to the subtropical climate of Dhaka.
The scheme also developed the two roof tops of the buildings as community
green with lawns and bushes around a small pavilion as a transformed
subtropical architectural vocabulary addressing the concern of “shortage of green space” in city.
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