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Prime Location in Dhaka Highly secured location in Baridhara
Diplomatic Enclave (United Nations Road)ü Overlooking the Baridhara Lake Only 2 minutes’ walk to the American
International School Magnificent award winning recently
build premises
ü Perfectly suitable for diplomatic
embassies, multinational NGOs and corporate residential requirements
South Watercaress, located on the United Nations Road is a
state of the art sustainable development project in Bangladesh. Dhaka, a
five-hundred-square-mile city, has over time become an area of complete urban
mayhem. Getting a lake and a narrow strip of green patch on the back side
(west) of the plot was a fortune in a city where total city green is not more than
five percent. 'South Watercaress is an eight-family housing project located at
United Nations Road in the Baridhara diplomatic zone. A deal made between the
land owner and the developer was to divide the 7,500 square feet plot into two
equal pieces to construct two six-storeyed buildings in order to share equally Utilizing 75 % of the plot area as per rule was a strong
requirement from the clients; however, it became a challenge in terms of
designing an open green space. The design suggestion here was to take 40 square
feet of small area from both the parties as a good gesture, placed along with
an 8 feet gap between the two buildings and 5 feet set-back from the road in
order to create 200 square feet of green patch and water body in front of the
building on the east road. This arrangement was also accompanied by a low-boundary-wall
notion and little benches were set as a token of respect for the passer-by and
the community.The two buildings developed were almost identical in
terms of the ground floor plans / parking area and the basic plan of four
houses per building. The simple interior, as required by the functional
arrangements, which connects to the beautiful lake and large trees on the west,
allows the south east summer breeze to flow through the entire house with ample
light throughout the day. The road side trees spreading their light branches
inspired the building to transform into a vertical garden.
The use of exposed structural beams and columns on the
exterior with terracotta brick infill is also a simple approach, friendly to
the subtropical climate of Dhaka. The scheme also developed the two rooftops of
the buildings as community greens with lawns, rain court (collects the rain
water) and bushes around a small pavilion as a transformed subtropical
architectural vocabulary addressing the concern of 'shortage of green and open
space' in the city.
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