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SCHOOLING IN THE HILLS
The project was initiated broadly as a real world exposure to the prevailing cultural and topographical context in Bangladesh, uniquely diversified depending on the geographical location, while the studio objective was designing learning spaces for the ethnic communities of the country. The allocated site, in this case, was on the remote bank of the hisroric Kaptai lake, which itself was a man made water body that formed during the hydroelectric project in 1960s. The lake uprooted the ethnic Chakma Communities, who were forced to migrate to the upper hill region due to the massive inundation. The design of the learning space deliberately opted for the unique culture and spatial wisdom of the Chakma community, form the choice of materials to the arrangement and scale of the class blocks.The settlement studies and behavioral observation led to the final outcome which preferred the inclusion of semioutddor spaces, connected to each of the classes, facing the lake and provide with scope of learning within the own spatial ambience.
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ROOFLING LAYER 01
ROOFLING LAYER 02
STRUCTURAL PORTION BAMBOO BEAM, STRENGTHENED BY TIEING 4 BAMBOOS, RIBBED FRAME PATTERN
OUTER INCLINED BAMBOO COLLUMNS
BAMBOO SCREENING AND WOODEN DOORS AND WINDOWS, AS WALL FILLER
WOODEN PLANK FLOOR
OUTDOOR CLASSROOM AS BAMBOO TERRACE OR MACHANG
WOODEN COLLUMNS AS PRIMARY STRUCTURE
PIVOTAL WINDOW
WOODEN BEAMS BENEATH THE USUABLE FLOORS RESTING ON MODULAR PRECAST RCC FOOTING
Wooden Frame bamboo infill. Pivots around a thinner bamboo post
BUILT IN WINDOW LOCKER: Made of Bamboo, for resisting, materiality, cuktural
Majhi Para Settlement (Extended)
