Green lounge
Banglamotor,Dhaka
As lives increasingly become urbanized, the connection with nature, natural light, green space, and organic materials is gradually disappearing. This project is a humble attempt to restore the human-nature connection by mimicking the ‘ground scape’ on the hard surface of an urban rooftop while offering the visitors a ravishing green experience
The context demands for a space to be developed where the users can transcend themselves from the hustle and bustle of the city and have a deep breath. The idea of the design has been derived from the retreat to the countryside that city dwellers do to recharge themselves with the charms of nature.
Involving the sounds of the flowing water, tweets of the birds, and rustling of leaves, these are depictions of the countryside that have enriched the intended flavor for the project.
Here in this project architecture seamlessly blended with nature.Here spaces are derived from the architecture of villages. Ghat chemistry, courtyard, river edge, pond detail, vegetable cultivation structure, seating under a tree, village house form, rural landscape, boat on the river edge, jungle and ground figure relation between soil and trees are the metaphors that finally impart a merger of physics and chemistry of the spaces.
As such the project is a combination of indoor and outdoor spaces that are constructed mostly with steel supplemented with the incorporation of trees, and bamboo structures in cases.
High-tech glass works have been incorporated to some challenging areas. Customised attempts are made for the steel structures are painted with green colour to merge with the concept of nature. The project is a fair example of what can be done at roof level at any high rise building.
As the project faces west, a tall tree trunk-made wall and natural trees have been incorporated to cut the scorching sun. A large ( 120’x50′) MS mesh-made see-through green canopy is developed to exaggerate the play of light and shadows, further giving a sense of enclosure.
