Dey_Portfolio by amlankd

DEY

PORT FOLIO AMLAN KUMAR

Hailing from a picturesque small town in Bangladesh, I have been deeply inspired by the socio-economic dynamics and environmental challenges around me. This inspiration has ignited my passion for ecological design, revitalization, and sustainability in both urban and rural landscapes. As an aspiring landscape architect, I find the field intriguing for its pivotal role in ecological balance and fostering interactions between buildings, nature, human, and more-than-human elements. I believe that my education in architecture and landscape architecture will enable me to design that is not only aesthetically pleasing but also embody collective memories and narratives that promote a deeper understanding of people and their relationships with the environment. I aim to practice in the landscape architecture field to use it as a vital tool to advocate my thoughts and utilize my expertise to craft harmonious built environments that enhance the quality of life for communities worldwide, especially in the face of climate change.

-Amlan Kumar Dey

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MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Farming Toward Multispecies Coexistance

Interwoven Realms

Chronotopes

Ecological Urbanism and Contemporary Campus Community

Harmony Peaks

Rhino + Grasshopper + CNC Milling

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE

Bangabandhu Multipurpose Complex, Sylhet

Tale of a City

UTIA STORMWATER PARK

COMPETITION ENTRIES

CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS

BUILT WORK

Farming Toward Multispecies Coexistence

Fall 2025

Design Studio IV

Instructor:

Sarah Bolivar

The project focuses on creating coexistent moments between land and its elements at UTIA’s Holston Unit site, currently used for cattle farming, switchgrass production, and wheat breeding. I centered my attention on the site’s edge, where the Tennessee River wraps around, exploring transformation strategies that support endangered species (eg. Tennessee Dace, Lake Sturgeon, Trouts), facilitate multispecies movement, and reimagine agricultural boundaries artistically.

While the project is still in progress, my research began by analyzing the site’s edge condition, water dynamics, and the ecological impact of river movement. I developed a hybrid map showing movement patterns, edge conditions, and historic water flows, alongside studying life cycles of endangered species like lake sturgeon, Tennessee dace, and trout— focusing on how habitat and movement can inform improved edge conditions.

Lake Sturgeon

Tennessee Dace

‘Fluvial Camouflage’, this biopatern, I drew inspiration from the dynamic skin of trout. This pattern translates the trout’s adaptive camouflage into a landscape system that visually and functionally responds to the river’s movements. Composed of interlocking, scale-like landforms, it dissipates hydraulic forces, slows erosion, and enhances ecological resilience. Integrating vegetation and microtopography, the system supports habitat diversity while strengthening shoreline stability but also, creates an artistic exploratory site dynamics with integrating boardwalks and accessible spaces.

Interwoven Realms:

Assembling Landscape With Soil Remediation

Spring 2024

Design Studio III

Instructor: Andrew Madl

Unsafe industrial production has led to hazardous situations and contaminated waste buried in various locations throughout the US. As a result, the Smokey Mountains Smelter site was included in the Superfund National Priorities List for cleanup. I have proposed a redesigned landscape that incorporates soil remediation strategies, along with making it a “spectacle” to interact with. The outlined plan includes remediating the contaminated sludges with implementing a capping strategy, followed by phytoremediation and phytostabilization. This system will serve to reclaim the land as well as offer a collective experience for users, providing both temporary and timeless experiences with a recreational hub and an ecological learning center.

What makes a landscape truly a spectacle in not the blazing sparkles of the materiality or a scenic projection of a natural frames. It could be embracing natural processes over natural forms to create sustainable experiences. This means that the spectacle is a process of constructing experiences for all species, not just humans. This is where i have focused in this project to create a landscape with layers, providing an aesthetic experience that is infinite, and collective.

The system diagram shows how soil washing, caping, and wastewater retension will take place in that brownfield site. The user will collect an experience going from a vast landscape to a more forestry and grained area, experiencing remediation strategies from the boardwalk sometimes above and sometimes from below the ground.

The Trail-Plan

Defining ‘spectacle’ of what is underneath and above

Chronotopes

Meetings in Fact & Fictions, Space & Time

Fall 2024

Design Studio V

Instructor: Chad Manley

Cities require sustained efforts on the part of activists, citizens, politicians, bureaucrats, planners, and designers because they are dynamic, ever-evolving systems that must balance growth, infrastructure, social equity, and environmental resilience. They function as complex networks and design is indeed a critical part of what makes a city successful—shaping its beauty, function, and fairness—then why not center it more directly?

Through site based research, and embedment within urban conditions in Chattanooga, TN, the project builds relationships at scalar and temporal increments. These relationships are informed through physical and material means, but so too by conversations and meetings between people and more-than-human beings. This project builds on and connects Chattanooga’s urban fabric over time, weaving together streets, corners, parks, facades, abandoned spaces, and open fields as discrete yet linked connective tissues.

Landscape urbanism depicts space as fluid, a breathing entity shaped by the rhythms of nature, history, and human experience. The cityscape is a collection of layers—each a thread binding the past to the present and inviting the future. This project’s journey through the lens of landscape urbanism isn’t just about designing some urban landscape site: it’s a story, threading moments, zooming in to existence, slowing down instead of rushing towards the destination, and experiencing vicinity.

The project started with selecting a number left out spaces like the intersection of garage buildings, in Chattanooga. Based on the writing and selecting fictional characters from Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for godot”. Through the existential despair and the human condition through the interactions of two characters waiting endlessly for someone named Godot. The play’s minimalist setting and circular dialogue underscore its exploration of meaninglessness and the absurdity of hope, which eventually turned inpirations for designing the elements on those spaces. The benches, bike racks, small interaction zone, paving transformations, and micro-habitat in the micro-garden set the stage for characters to shape urban spaces to their needs.

Four site selected connecting historical landmark of the city. A small neighborhood park, vibrant railcrossing zone, an underpass, and a park adjacent to soccer field was designed to connect the transect.

Experimented physical modeling with 2D printed textures. Explored how unorthodox materiality reacts to the essence of space.

ECOLOGICAL URBANISM AND THE CONTEMPORARY CAMPUS COMMUNITY

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University of Tennessee Bioswale System

Fall 2024

LAR 535 Operative Landscape Tactics

Instructor: Mike Ross

The project was to reimage the UTK bioswales within the context of ecological landscape design and contemporary planting design. Elements of biodiversity (species and allelic richness), ecological connections, biotic function, phyto and rhizo-remediation, and aesthetic function are addressed in technical and conceptual resolution. The bioswales will serve as an ecological armature that reaches out and engages the architecture at the site. The project site has a humid subtropical climate with four distinct seasons. The project site is adjacent to UTK’s main bioswale system. The area, while occasionally impacted by remnants of tropical storms, generally enjoys a balanced climate year-round. To ensure resilience and enhance usability, several design strategies have been integrated into the site.

Given the potential acidity of the soil, loamy soil enriched with organic nutrients—sourced from nurseries or UTK sites—will be mixed with the disturbed soil to support plant health. Site grading adjustments improve drainage while also carving out space for a terraced seating area, offering both function and comfort. A stormwater streambed, fed by a cascading water feature from McClung Plaza, channels runoff toward a reservoir that connects to UTK’s main bioswale system, with a mechanical pump ensuring continuous water flow. Additionally, a wooden ADA-accessible ramp will provide a seamless pedestrian connection from the crosswalk to the top of McClung Plaza, enhancing accessibility and circulation.

Harmony Peaks

An agro-economical summit symphony with beekeeping and water renewal in Appalachian Highlands

Fall 2023

Design Studio IV

Instructor: Chad Manley, Faye Nixon

The shift to mountaintop removal (MTR) has caused devastating environmental, health, and social impacts in the Appalachian Mountains. Especially in Central Appalachia (i.e., areas of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia), more than 500 mountains in the US have been destroyed by this process, resulting in the burial of 1 million acres of land and 3,200 km (2,000 mi) of streams, causing permanent damage to ecosystems and aquatic life. More than 90% of the mountaintop removal sites in central Appalachia are still economically undeveloped while local communities of these sites are struggling with economic deprivation.

Engaging these communities with self-sustaining activities could lead the way toward remediation. Agro-farmingbased activities might encourage a small-scale investment to develop the land, gain skills, and be self-sustainable. The project investigates how modest investments or organizational assistance can pave the way for an agroeconomic transformation of these lands. The aim is to leverage existing resources (water) and significant economic growth with beekeeping to the mountain/local community.

Rhino + Grasshopper + CNC Milling

Spring 2024

Design Studio II+ Design Communication II

Instructor: Andrew Madl

Using attraction points and point-cloud based landform data analysis in GH and WM.

Using Agent-Based GH scripts for showing seasonality and growth pattern of creepers

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Bangabandhu Multipurpose Complex

Level 5 Term 2 (Thesis Project)

Design Studio X

Supervisor: Tanvir Hasan

“Bangabandhu Multipurpose Complex,” is one of the mega projects of Bangladesh’s rapidly growing and developing city, Sylhet. At 15.5 acres, it is a large-scale development occupying the heart of Bondar Bazar, one of Sylhet city’s major hubs which was previously a historical dighi surrounding. Increasing commercial need and unplanned development is grasping this urban center to its every inch. As a result, these ever-growing horizontal and vertical developments caused the degrading environment, lack of public breathing spaces, proper shopping and retail environment, and architectural deterioration of this area.

This project draws on key urban design principles to shape a responsive and vibrant urban hub. Ian Bentley’s Responsive Environments and Cyrel B. Paumier’s Creating a Vibrant City Center informed the design framework, emphasizing the relationship between people, their needs, and the shopping environment. Kevin Lynch’s Image of the City guided the structuring of building and spatial imagery, ensuring a coherent and legible urban experience. Grounded in these principles, the project seeks to regenerate the area with breathable, accessible public spaces that enhance its vibrancy and connectivity.

Tale of a City

Within a journey: Design for resilience

Level 4 Term 1

Design Studio VII

Instructor: Mohammed Nahyan, Shahidul Islam

Team: Amlan, Nuhash, Sadi

Role: Concept development, Representation, Team organization

The objective of this project was to address the morphological transformation of Sylhet City caused by rapid urbanization, inland flooding, and poor sewage management within its natural canal systems. The goal was to develop a comprehensive solution using a Green-Blue Infrastructure (GBI) approach.

The project was conducted in two phases. First, all existing green, blue, and gray networks and infrastructures across the city were surveyed to identify current conditions and opportunities for integrated services. In the second phase, a key site was selected based on its potential to generate broad, positive impact across the city. Through detailed site analysis and user behavior studies, a water-sensitive, landscape-based urban design was developed with a strong focus on placemaking.

The chosen site lies at the heart of the city, where a major canal system flows through dense urban fabric. Three tiers of design strategy were developed—at the city scale, site context, and neighborhood scale. To revitalize the GBI surrounding the canal, the design incorporated tourism engagement and encouraged community participation to foster a socially and ecologically responsive urban environment.

An urban park with recreational and healthcare facilities was proposed near the city’s most prominent religious site. Adjacent housing was relocated to improve access and community integration. The natural canal flow and existing blue spaces were restored, while canal edges were activated with folk craft shops, a small bazaar, and a secondary entrance. Community gardens and on-site waste management were included to support sustainability. A multi-story recreational building was also proposed to provide year-round activities.

UTIA Stormwater Park

Fall 2025

Developed concept phase for UT Facility Services proposal for new stormwater park Supervisor: Bethany Morris

This stormwater park proposal was developed for the University of Tennessee’s Institute of Agriculture campus as part of its renewed vision for a more sustainable, resilient landscape. The campus’s long-term goals include implementing sustainable stormwater strategies, creating a healthier outdoor environment, and reducing overall energy consumption. This project supports that vision and is designed to help secure future stormwater funding.

I developed the conceptual design phases for the project, which include a continuously circulating stormwater pond powered by a circulation pump, a cascading water feature constructed from locally sourced Tennessee sandstone, a nearby bus stop, and a central gathering hub integrated into the site plan. The proposed stormwater channel features a dual-bed system: a primary stormbed that remains filled year-round and a secondary bed that activates only during storm events or flooding conditions. The planting palette prioritizes Tennessee native species, with a special emphasis on perennials and pollinator-attracting plants to support local biodiversity.

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Competition Entries

KAIRA LOORO || WOMEN’S HOUSE

YEAR: 2021

Team of 5

Role: Conceptual development, final design analysis

This project’s design framework helps developing countries especially their rural areas to annihilate issues that undermine women’s ability to engage in economic activities. In our design approach, we have unfolded the reasons behind the lack of women’s participation in socio-economic activities. For instance; unsung household activities, weak job market, lack of education, limited technology and skill, lack of business network, and most importantly societal prejudices. This project introduced a pyramid model that includes four steps to ensure women’s empowerment for a community hub architecture. From the top, our steps are; Self-esteem, Prioritizing, Partnering, and Visibilizing.

GOLPAHAR MAHASHAWSHAN

TEMPLE COMPLEX

Year: 2022

Team of 3

Role: Conceptual development, visualization

The competition was an architectural proposal held by IAB for a sacred abode of God, maintaining features of Hindu/Sanatan philosophy, epic, mythology, and rituals. We tried to create a temple complex where every piece of form and material is divinely connected to the ancient Hindu architectural belief. Worked with square: the most primitive form of Hindu temple planning. According to Vastupurushamandala, it is the square that represents the earth and the universe suggesting timelessness and infinity. This project was highly appreciated by jury members.

Construction Drawings

Built Work

CTG Village Home

Completion Year: 2022

Architect: Amlan Kumar Dey

This project is set in the heart of dense vegetation, surrounded by three large ponds, in the tranquil village of Chunati, Lohagara, Chittagong, Bangladesh. The client, nostalgic for their childhood memories of a mud house once on this plot, wanted to preserve its essence. To honor this sentiment, the design incorporates an open-to-sky courtyard, a 10-inch load-bearing structural system with an exposed brick finish, large louvered wooden windows and doors, NCF flooring, vintage MEP-brand electrical switches, and an overall rustic, raw aesthetic with minimal paintwork.