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Email : shafaiet.mahmud@gmail.com
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“I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.”
—Mother Teresa
I, S M Shafaiet Mahmud, hereby certify that the work submitted in my portfolio for review is entirely of my own hand, or, where produced in collaboration with others, has been clearly identified as such.
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2012-2017 (5Years)
Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch)
American International University Bangladesh (AIUB)
Merit Position 3rd
2009-2011 (2Years)
Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)
Cambrian College, Dhaka
2007-2009 (2Years)
Secondary School Certificate (SSC)
Kanchan Nagar Model High School, Jhenaidah
July 2018 to Present (4Years)
I studied at American International University Bangladesh and earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree after completing a five-year program with 176 credits in the Faculty of Engineering. My cumulative grade point average was 3.38 on a scale of 4.00.
In both a national and international design competition, I received awards. I have successfully completed team projects and contests to demonstrate my ability to function in a team on an elective basis as a team leader and team member.
This portfolio exhibits a clear and purposeful personal progress throughout the years of design and interpretive talents in the field of architecture in addition to a sequence of chosen projects and experiences.
Centre for Inclusive Architecture and Urbanism (Ci+AU), BRAC University
PROJECT ARCHITECT AND DESIGN ASSOCIATE
https://www.bracu.ac.bd/about/people/sm-shafaiet-mahmud
February 2018 to June 2018 (5Months)
Archeground Ltd.
JUNIOR ARCHITECT
October 2017 to January 2018 (4Months)
VOLUMEZERO Ltd.
INTERN ARCHITECT
Associate Member
Institute of Architects Bangladesh (IAB)
MIAB: AM-300
Expanding the View (Conference)
2020-2021
Association of Collegiate School of Architecture (ASCA), USA
Author: Dr. Adnan Morshed
Co-author: S M Shafaiet Mahmud
Book Chapter Publication,2019
Aspiration and Ideas - Designing with the Context
Student Author
6.3 Urban Remidiation
Editor: Dr. Zakiul Islam, Dr. Saimum Kabir
Published by UPL
Inhabiting the Nature (Design Competition),2018
Aditya College of Architecture (ACA), Mumbai, India
Position Achieved: 1st Citation
Final Report Presentation of UNDP
Funded Project, 2022
United Nations Development Programmee (UNDP), Bangladesh
Performed as Main Presenter among 6 Team Members
Team Leader: Dr. Adnan Morshed
Presentation for Fund Approval, 2021
University Grant Comission (UGC), Bangladesh
Performed as Team Leader
Team Member: Ms. Wasila Fatima, Mr. Fahim
Hasan Rezve
3D and 2D Software
- Rhinoceros Expert
- Grasshopper Intermediate
- Sketchup Expert
- Revit Intermediate
- 3DS MAX Advanced
- AutoCAD Expert
Rendering Software
- V-ray Expert
- Lumion Expert
- UE Twinmotion Advanced
- Keyshot Expert
- Enscape Expert
Adobe Software
- Photoshop Expert
- Illustrator Expert
- Premier Pro Intermediate
- InDesign Advanced
- Motion Graphics
- Computational Design
- Inclusive Architecture
- Waste Management Technology
- Modern Landscape
The increasing development of humans is causing a loss of resources, as people are ignoring their environment by throwing waste into landfill sites and achieved the tag of ‘planet wrecker’. This is a common problem in cities like Dhaka, where only 40-60% of waste is collected and taken to the city’s two landfills. The future of these landfill sites is uncertain as waste continues to be generated. A recommendation in the structural plan 2016-2035 suggests adopting 3R strategies (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) for waste management instead of relying on landfills in Bangladesh.
The 3R strategy (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) is widely considered the law of good consumption, but its effectiveness is questionable. Reducing and reusing require compromise, and many products are designed to be thrown away rather than reused. Recycling seems like a more practical option, but it is only recovering, not reducing waste. The natural world demonstrates the perfect recycling and reusing system, which humans should strive to emulate.
The growing population and urbanization demand buildings and infrastructure that are functional and sustainable. My research interests focuses on integrating sustainable design principles, waste management technology, and leading-edge technology in the built environment. I am particularly interested in using digital tools and techniques in the design process to optimize energy efficiency, reduce waste, and to improve user experience. This holistic approach to design can result in more sustainable and equitable solutions and facilitate collaboration among different fields and stakeholders.
Above all, I am interested in exploring the role of waste management technology in reducing the environmental impact of the built environment. This includes the use of closed-loop systems, such as recycling and waste-to-energy technologies, to minimize the generation of waste and to maximize the recovery of resources. Architecture has the power to shape our physical and social environments, and as such, it is crucial that it reflects the diverse needs and perspectives of the communities it serves.
In a nutshell, I believe that the role of the architectural profession in the coming decades will be to integrate new technologies and approaches into their work while maintaining a commitment to sustainable and equitable design. This requires a willingness to embrace new methods of collaboration and to seek out innovative solutions that meet the changing needs of society. I am eager to explore these themes further through my research and to contribute to the advancement of the field of architecture.
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Atelier of a Musician
Design Theme: Maestro Le-Corbusier Inspiration
Individual Academic Project - 2 nd Year
2. 3.
page 8 - 9
Sports Museum
Design Theme: A Sports Centre Cum Museum
Individual Academic Project - 4 th Year
page 10 - 13
Urban Remidiation: Turning a Landfill Site into Public Park
Undergraduate Thesis Project
Individual Academic Project - 5 th Year
4. 8.
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BRAC Regional Offices
Role Performed: Project Architect
Principal Architect: Dr. Adnan Morshed
page 32
Rendering and Post Production
During Internship at Volumezero Ltd.
5. 9.
6. 7.
page 20 - 23
BRAC University, Savar Campus
Role Performed: Project Architect
Principal Architect: Dr. Adnan Morshed
page 33
Photography Workshop
Design Theme: Depth of Field, Contrajour, Sillouttee, Long Exposure Photography
Individual Academic Project - 3 rd Year
page 24 - 27
Multipurposing Flyovers Under UNDP Funded Research Project
Role Performed: Senior Research Associate
Principal Investigator: Dr. Adnan Morshed
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Aarong Project
Role Performed: Project Architect
Principal Architect: Dr. Adnan Morshed
Instructor: Project Information
Prof.Dr. Zakiul Islam
Shuva Chowdhury
Khondokar Mithila
Year: Fall 2014
Location:Dhaka
Duration: 6 Weeks
Role: Individual
Students in this project examined an existing family home in the city of Dhaka. The student then created a single-family home with a capacity for three people and access for people with disabilities for a musician.
The key difficulty was to examine the Master Architect Le Corbusier’s architectural style, discover his design elements, and adapt them to their design.
Instructor: Project Information
Ashik Vaskor
Azmery Nushrat Shoma
Suraiya Farzana
Year: Spring 2015
Location:Dhaka
Duration: 6 Weeks
Role: Individual
Sports facilities and recreational structures need to be optimized to admit hundreds or thousands of people on a daily basis and to fulfill the needs of whatever activity takes place in the facility because they are key centers of social and economic importance around the world.
The location is near the gulshan-2 wonderland park on gulshan-2. Since the location is bordered by homes and has many commercial attractions, a community sports complex would be a preferable choice as a gathering place and gym for the neighborhood.
Instructor: Project Information
Year: Spring 2017 Ashik Iqbal
Dilruba Ferdous Shuvra
Md. Rashed Hasan
Location:Dhaka
Duration: 16 Weeks
Role: Individual
The garbage in Dhaka City and the spot where most of the city’s trash is thrown each day are the subjects of this senior bachelor thesis investigation. The area is located in Demra in Dhaka and is referred to as the Matuail Sanitary Landfill.
According to recent research, one-third of our natural resources have already been used up (FAO). Dhaka City has moved up to the top spot from being ranked as the second-least livable city in the world.
We don’t have enough open space, farmland, or recreational area, but if we look at the municipal landfill’s condition, we can see that Dhaka’s waste management is buying additional land and disposing of waste there. As a result, over time, this land has turned poisonous, and this hazardous substance is now reaching us through the air, the water, and other natural channels. This sort of land will eventually be abandoned due to its toxicity and inability to support both significant development and vegetation.
Since the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC)’s concept was “Matual landfill post-closing and extension,” I decided to propose this project in response to it. My suggestion included a waste-treatment facility and a cutting-edge urban park. Dhaka
Waste dumping 2003 to 2008
Waste dumping 2008 to 2021 and
According to Proposal of DSCC They will Acquire New Fresh land and will dump there Waste From 2021- to Endless time.
It is a stigmergy algorithm similar to ant colony algorithm. Physarum Polycephalum, literally the “many-headed slime”, a team of Japanese and Hungarian researchers have shown this P. Polycephalum can solve the shortest path problem. When grown in a maze with oatmeal at two spots, P. Polycephalum retracts from everywhere in the maze, except the shortest route connecting the two food source.
5-8 years
8-10 years Master Plan
Principal Architect
Dr. Adnan Morshed
Project Architects
S M Shafaiet MahmudMuntasir Hakim
Tahseen Reza Anika
S M Kaikobad
Samiur Rahman Bhuiyan
Project Information
Year: 2018-2020
Location: Sylhet, Barishal, Rangpur,Manikganj, Mymensingh,Pabna, Satkhira,Jashore,
Duration: 3 Years
Raihan Sadib Role: Project Architect
Building Resources Across Communities or BRAC (founded in 1972) is the world’s largest non-governmental organization in terms of the number of employees. BRAC seeks to create a “world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination where everyone has the opportunity to realise their potential.” This globally-known organization works in 11 countries, including Bangladesh, to eliminate extreme poverty and empower people with financial mobility and capacity building.
In 2017, BRAC approached Ci+AU to reimagine the next generation of its regional oices in rural and peri-urban regions across Bangladesh. Built mostly during the 1970s and 1980s, these aging oices have been plagued by insuicient work spaces and lack of community gathering areas, gender-friendly toilets, universal access, adequate natural light and ventilation, technology adaptability, and security. The BRAC commission oered us a unique opportunity to not only imagine a sustainable office typology for our own times, but also examine the crucial intersectionbetween social justice and architecture.
Our design teams visited all the eight sites located in dierent climatic zones in Bangladesh. The allotted plots for these regional oices are relatively small, yet the given program for each oice was extensive—spatial zones for 14 or more BRAC programs, such as micro-credit and education. Our primary design challenge was to conceive a compact office building with a clear articulation of dierent functional zones, both horizontally and vertically. We needed to create a sequential spatial diagram, from the public (beneficiary areas) to the private (sta accommodation and dining), all intermingled with a system of moderately-sized courtyards, facilitating natural light and air ventilation. As we imagined an inclusive, healthy, and ecological life-style oice environment, we also endeavored to create a visual language that people across Bangladesh would readily identify with BRAC and its mission of social inclusiveness. That visual language took inspiration from three archetypal features of the Bengal pastoral landscape: the rudimentary Bengal hut, the solitary tree in the agricultural field, and the horizontal sweep of the Bengal delta.
Sketch: Dr. Adnan Morshed
JAYINTAPUR SYLHET CHAKHAR BARISHAL
KAZIRHUT SATKHIRA
JHIKARGACHA JASHORE
SUJANAGAR PABNA
MANIKGANJ SAVAR
DARSHANA RANGPUR
BOILOR MYMENSINGH
Principal Architect
Year: 2017-2021
Location: Savar, Dhaka,Bangladesh
Duration: 3 Years
BRAC University commissioned Ci+AU to design the interior of a number of key buildings, located at the Residential Semester (RS) Campus of BRAC University at Savar, an industrial outpost on the outskirts of Dhaka. Our first question was: What does the RS Campus want to be? To find an answer to this question, we first sought to understand what goes on at the RS Campus. The essential objective of this campus—a rare privilege offered by a university in Bangladesh—is to create an immersion program, focused on three subject areas: Bangladesh Studies; Ethics and Culture; and English. It is a life-style campus that seeks to prepare students with a comprehensive yet critical understanding of their motherland, an ethical worldview, and English language competency. Our first challenge was to design the interior of the main dining facility, central library, cafeteria, and faculty offices. Additionally, we had to reimagine the courtyard of the main academic building as a place of gathering, a sort of agora of student life. We asked ourselves: what kind of interior space would create the most immersive environment? We came up with a fundamental insight: how could space itself be a system of knowledge production? How can space facilitate learning? Each building interior then became a conceptual and thematic book, an immersive board where “knowledge” becomes a constant visual panorama. The dining facility is transformed into a “geography book” focusing on Bangladesh’s numerous rivers, river poems, and riverine vessels. The library interior becomes a book of innovation and biographies of innovators. The walls and columns of the library highlight the work of innovators and creators, from Leonardo da Vinci to Jagadish Chandra Bose, from Muzharul Islam to Louis Kahn. The walls of the cafeteria become the backdrop for learning about the musical instruments of Bengal, all set in evocative colours.
Our first challenge was to design the interior of the main dining facility, central library, cafeteria, and faculty offices. Additionally, we had to reimagine the courtyard of the main academic building as a place of gathering, a sort of agora of student life. We asked ourselves: what kind of interior space would create the most immersive environment? We came up with a fundamental insight: how could space itself be a system of knowledge production? How can space facilitate learning?
Dorm: Nikunja and Maloncho
Location: Savar, Dhaka
Under UNDP Funded Research Project
Principal Investigator
Project Information
Year: 2021- 2022
Senior Research Associate
Research Associate
Location: Savar, Dhaka,Bangladesh
Duration: 8 Months
Like other developing countries in the Global South, Bangladesh is urbanizing at an unprecedented pace.1 Every year nearly half a million people from the rural hinterland pour into the capital city, Dhaka, in search of work and better lives. Cities, large and small, have become the nerve centers of the country’s economic, social, and cultural growth. Dhaka and Chittagong together account for nearly 50% of the country’s GDP. Bangladesh’s future is decidedly urban.
One of the biggest challenges of urbanization in Bangladesh is creating efficient and sustainable networks of transportation infrastructure in highly populous cities. This challenge is exacerbated by the diminishing land supply as the urban population increases and the built environment expands, while also increasing density. As in other developing countries (or developed countries in the post-World War II era), flyovers and elevated expressways have become a standard response to vehicular and mass-circulation demands in congested Bangladeshi cities.
City life in urban agglomerations like Dhaka and Chattogram (other Bangladeshi cities are expected to follow suit in the coming decades) is substantially transformed by the introduction of flyovers, expressways, and other multilevel road infrastructures. Currently, Dhaka has eight completed flyovers with a total length of over 30 km.2 Four under-construction elevated infrastructures will add another 22 km to the current length. The combined length of Dhaka Metro Rail-MRT 6, MRT 4, and MRT 5 will be 88 km. That is a total of 140 km of single-use elevated circulatory infrastructures with considerable underutilized urban land below amid high-demand urban corridors.
Current informal uses of the underside of flyovers reveal that single-use road infrastructures can be transformed into integrated systems of multiple urban functions. In Dhaka, a city with a population density of 153,390 per sq. mi, one of the highest in the world, single-use flyovers are a waste of urban land and a missed opportunity to transform an elevated expressway into a multipurpose community-oriented infrastructure.
This report asks a series of research questions: Are single-use flyovers in Dhaka city—a land-scarce country—a sustainable and cost-effective urban response to the challenges of mobility? Are the prime lands under flyovers, hovering over dense urban areas, optimally utilized to yield maximum advantage to city people of all socioeconomic classes, local communities, and the city at large? How do urban planners incorporate current informal usages into an efficient and inclusive system that works for high-density cities? What kind of urban planning policies would foster multipurpose flyovers that are integrated with everyday urban life?
Principal Architect
Project Information
Year: 2018- 2021
Project Architect
Location:Dhaka,Bangladesh
Duration: 8 Months for Aarong Pavilion
14 Months for Aarong Earth Display Space
Role: Project Architect
The Centre for Inclusive Architecture and Urbanism (Ci+AU) at BRAC University has come up with an innovative ideas for the pavilion design of Aarong 40 years celebration. The main concept of the celebration was to introduce the new generation with the essence of Aarong that’s why we choose the concept Bengal hut, our very own rural house structures as the pavilion. We also use the local low cost material for the sustainability purpose.
The Centre for Inclusive Architecture and Urbanism (Ci+AU) at BRAC University has come up with a proposal for the herbal product display center in all the Aarong outlets in Bangladesh. For the Aarong Earth pavilion table module, our inspiration is a fundamental unit of nature: a leaf. This is the most elemental expression of the natural environment. For the Aarong Earth pavilion shelf module, our inspiration is a fundamental unit of a piece of rural landscape: Palki This is the most elemental expression of the rural Celebration.
Principal Architect
Md Foyez Ullah
Project Architect
Fahim Mostafa
Project Information
Year: 2018
Location:Dhaka,Bangladesh
Duration: 4 Months
Role: InternArchitect
Instructor Project Information
Year: Summer 2015 Munem Wasif
Location:Dhaka,Bangladesh
Duration: 4 Months
Role: Individual Academic
Contrajour
