Name & Location:

RlZlA POROMPORA 256, Stadium Road, Cox’sBazar, Bangladesh.
Cost of Project: (US Dollar) 685,000
Built-up area: 2250.62 Sq. meter

Description of Project:

This plot has its own potentials of having lush green of Cox’sBazar Government High School at its north. There are some federal lands, Bir Sreshtho Ruhul Amin Stadium, Central Eidgah field, and wide-open landscape stretched to the horizon where the tamarisk tree line of the Bay of Bengal is, due to gradual slope of the topography towards Bay of Bengal. Some tin shed & a 3-storied house in
the south. A 2-storied residential building in the east.

A 3.96meter wide road (7.62 meter as per documents) comes to the plot from stadium road. This building has been designed for 11 siblings.  There are 13 apartments among which 11 will be owned individually and rest 2 will remain common.

A soft court of 12.5mx10.98m was placed in the south west corner of the plot and the placement of 2 unit in each floor in its respect ensures prevailing tropical winds of coastal region of Bangladesh and light sufficiently to each apartment, Thus the court was leaked through the opening of interior spaces and also interior spaces open outside to the court.

Among two common flats one has been placed in ground floor that opens to the courtyard and will take the overall control of the house. The second common flat located beneath the community floor of roof top is also to control the complex and that will merge with the community hall, guest dormitory, gust room/building office & with the open terraces.

 small dormitory for family friends and relatives while visiting Cox’sBazar and a guest room which is now occupied by their fathers’ table could be used as office for family properties documentation as before in their old home. This area in the south part of the roof top was designed with a water court full of aquatic plants & Fish, with an evening terrace stressed endlessly to the horizon.

A large indoor space as community hall was designed in the north roof top; a semi outdoor space and an infinity terrace which could accommodate more than 60 persons together to dine in in any occasion. This multipurpose space presently allows all tenants at their small programs /functions or meeting in exchange of a minimum change. Family members have also started to use it for their iftar party & Eid get-together, Rest of the time this hall opens itself as games room.

Stair case here comes with out-of—the box thinking and provides social spaces (PashchatiVerandah) from its landing areas at 4th and 6th floor. It was placed in such a way to connect the in termediate social spaces, projected verandas, court and also to the horizon even to the tamarisk tree line of Bay of Bengal. It would also be dedicated to different age group, like younger kids for instance, can use that space as their playground, older people can have amenities of their liking. Here every flat of approximately 150 SqM maintains a common spatial sequence. Each has a free-flowing living-dining-family living space that connected to the courtyard & social interactional
space that leaded to the horizon of Bay line.

Rooms here connected to semi outdoor verandas and eventually to the infinity. All together creates a boundaryless character within a very specific boundary.

Each of the flats are composed of having 3 bed rooms, 3toilet, kitchen, 4 verandas.

Materials of Construction Details:

All materials used for this project are either locally produced or available

All external walls are of 254mm(127mm+127mm) with gas burn ricks, 25mm gap between 2 walls for bringing down the electrical cables, provisions of ventilation holes to way out the moisture & heat from in-between 2 walls.

All other external surface other than bricks is as cast and premix cement plaster (CP-2), water repellent application on entire surface.
Interior are also kept pointed exposed for those peripheral 254mm(127mm+127mm) brick walls.internal 127mm brick walls are with plaster & paint.

Ceiling remains as cast.
Solid wooden doors for main entrance & flash doors for bed rooms.
MS swing windows with clear glass for all windows allows maximum airflows.
MS I sections have been used for glass roofing & to hold sun breaker fins.
Cement board on MS frames has been used as sun breaker fins.
MS frame & clear glass with casement opening has been used for entire stair case.
Red clay tiles for entire verandah and terraces.
Homogeneous floor tiles for entire floor.
MS box & link chain for all railing.
Tempered sandwiched glass for glass roofing.

Special Features:

Scattered distribution of social spaces throughout the circulation like court, Poshchati Verandas, open infinity terraces, water court, where they gather and go back to their soul, culture and tradition, where they interact between siblings; with the next generation and beyond in a traditional extended family; with neighbors who pass through or live beside and so on. And of course, those views rewind them to that time of school life.

That wide spread open front yard of old home, their favorite old benches at verandah (Poshchati verandah), that garden, water-well and showering place, all these has been taken into considerations; but this time in a different way as it will be in a multi storied building and comparatively in a smaller land, scattering the space vertically, uplift the social gathering spaces in different levels by the circulation that must connect each other in their journey.