Salient Feature of the Project

Name & Location : ALIF BREEZE APARTMENT BUILDING, House# 21 , Road # 55. Gulshan- 2, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Cost of Project : (IJS$) IJS$ 1,028,571, Built-up area : 60,000 sft
(In case of Public Building minimum built-up area should be 1000 sq. meter)

Description of Project :

The project is a six storied building having form apartments each floor totally twenty apartments ranging from 2400 sft to 3546 sft. The ground floor or 40 nos car parking, reception, waiting, green patch and a water body at the entry point. The roof used here for community space consisted of hall room, gymnasium, terrace, lawn and vegetation. Apartments are also having terraces, garden and water bodies in different floors.

Materials of Construction Details :

The use of reinforced concrete beams, columns, and shear walls as cast with exposed terracotta brick in fill glass is the basic material and structure system The building. Considering the  tropical climate of Dhaka this approach is friendly and sustainable. This also justify the earthquake resistant design  Dhaka zone 2.

Special Features :

Tne of the most densely populated cities in the world, Dhaka is characterized by an urban mayhem fermented by unregulated development, unreliable  infrastructure and lack of green space. In addition the poor local law and order situation with global security problem put the over all social ambiance of the disrespectful.

Currently as a result, the house and street relationship is bifurcated by high boundary wall with barbed wire on top, “be aware of dog” sign making the society  vulnerable. But even less than thirty years back the scenario of the city was otherwise. Houses, having no boundary wall but extended plinth Mer” with sitting bench and water pitcher showing the strong bondage, respect and trust amongst the people of the community.

Here in this project one of the main features is its low glass boundary wall. Semiologically this is an urge to the society to revive the trust and respect. The intention also to create a kind of illusion and dream that we are forgetting and to make a dividing boundary wall frazil and vulnerable but not the society.

Another important space in this apartment building is its car parking area on the ground. An open to sky water body at the point of entry as a memory of deltai iving, long marble benches for sitting, lounge, reception, connecting greens, defused lights, terra-cotta and granite floor in total making the place a Rendezvous. initially back side (south) of the plot was connected to the lake and design has been done accordingly. But unfortunately, as typical south Asian political action, lot has been created and given to a minister on the lake blocking all the views of this apartment to the lake. This unique situation in addition created problem when the minister built a six story house with all the servant rooms/ windows facing the project. This compelled us to create frosted glass louve creens for privacy and peeping lake from some points without loosing the flow of the breeze and light.

Almost all eight thousand square feet flat roof area is another space utilized fully as community space with lawns, vegetation, terraces and so on. This in on and reduced the heat generation and provided some green space which Dhaka is lacking much now a day. All the bænty apartments in this building have been designed very carefully, examining the cross ventilation sun movement, vegetation, water body, privacy etc.