College of Architecture GraduateMerit Scholarship, MLA+U, IIT
RESEARCH & PUBLICATION
2021 -2023
Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Designation: Research and DesignAssociate. (MLA+U), IllinoisInstituteofTechnology (IIT). AWARD & RECOGNITION
Bachelor ofArchitecture (B.Arch)
Bangladesh University of Eng. and Tech Session: 2009-10 to2016-17
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
July2023 - February 2025
EDSA Baltimore, MD
Designation: Landscape Designer
May2022 -August2022
Botanical City Chicago, IL
Designation: Landscape Architecture Intern
August2021 - August2022
IL-ASLA Honor Award,2024
Awardedfor Graduate Research Project
Council ofEducatorsinLandscape Architecture (CELA) Annual Conference,2023 Accepted for Research Poster Presentation
IllinoisTech Special Acknowledgement Research Award,2022 Issued by Illinois Institute of Technology
Funding from 'The Driverless City Project' NSF Grant,2021
The Driverless City Lab, IIT
Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC),2019 Approach to Inter-Scalar Resilience: Settlement Linkages.
Socially Responsible Modeling, Computation, Recognition for theProposal of a Swimming
Funded to Conduct Research in Communities
The Driverless City Project, IIT Chicago, IL Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Scholarship Designation: Research Assistant for Masters in Landscape Architecture,2022
April2019 - March2020
Mgh Group Dhaka, Bangladesh
Designation: Architect Open House, IIT
College of Architecture Masters Scholarship MLA+U, IIT
The Driverless City Project: The Urban Design and Policy Implications of Ubiquitous Robots and NavigationSafety with Ron Henderson, Dr. Boris Pervan, Dr. Matt Spenko, Nilay Mistry, Alexis Arias, Yihe Chen, Kana Nagai, Jorge Mayorga, Melika Yousefi.
Grant: NSF Grant ($750,000) Other Grants/Prizes: Nayar Prize, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant and Design (SoReMo) Fellowship,2023 Pool Integrated Fitness Program, 2016 An Exploration into the Necessary Transparency Needed in the Recycling Dot.Amber Student DesignCompetition,2015 Culture with Caitlin Brown. Funded Ongoing
L4, T2 Studio Project- Second Prize Researchwith the SoReMo Initiative, IIT.
BergerStudentAward,2011 Ll, Tl Portfolio- Best PortfolioAward
UniversityTechnical Scholarship, BUET, 2010
The Driverless City: The SocioEnvironmental ImplicationsTo Urban Waters with Ron Henderson and Alexis Arias. Funded by Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant.
EDSA, Baltimore, MD
-Design and Collaboration
-Construction Documentation
-Planting Design Exercise
-Master Plan Design and Analysis
-River Front Development
-Master Plan
Conceptualization
-Grading Design Exercise
Botanical City, Chicago, IL
Englewood Trail
Cactus Consultants
Social Roof
Office Building Summit Power
Illinois Tech
Research: The Driverless City Project
MLA Design Studio
Urban Orchard
Storied Quarry
Pioneer Court
Play Link
Nostalgia Design Media
B.Arch Studio Works
Design Of A Public Realm
Visioning Sustainable Village R(e)volution
Master Plan: Academic Campus
Bengal InstituteBRAC Learning Center
Competition Entries
Landmark Monument
IAAC : 6th Advanced Architecture Competition
Others
Graphic Design
Photography
EDSA | DESIGN AND COLLABORATION
Construction Documentation | CAD, Revit/BIM360 I developed expertise in handling projects from largescale master planning to detailed site design within the same project. Through this process, I enhanced my proficiency in Design in various scale and learned Revit to integrate grading and site elements seamlessly. Additionally, I collaborated with clients and multidisciplinary consultants on the BIM360 platform, ensuring coordinated and efficient project workflows.
Construction details
Detail landscape plan: Hardscape
Detail landscape plan: Shrubs
EDSA | CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION (CAD, REVIT)
Construction Documentation | Landscape Plan: Shrubs
EDSA | PLANTING DESIGN EXERCISE
Planting Design Exercise | Golf Villas and Club Area
Project title and client’s name has been removed due to NDA restrictions I worked on the redesign of the planting plan for the residential area of a resort master plan and landscape design, adapting to changes in the previous berms and swales. Considering the elevation and the specific planting palette, I aimed to create a seamless journey toward the beach while ensuring privacy for the adjacent villas. Shade trees provided a sense of enclosure, large palms guided directional flow, and fencing palms maintained villa privacy. Additionally, plant selections with varying saltwater tolerance were strategically placed within the 2.6m elevation to ensure long-term sustainability.
EDSA | MASTER PLAN DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
Master Plan Exercise | Test Fitting of Building Blocks and Required Parking
The design includes 8 buildings with 210 units, providing 414 parking spaces, exceeding the required 409. The layout emphasizes community connectivity, integrating walkways to the lake and ensuring most buildings offer lake-view apartments. Parking areas feature permeable pavements to enhance sustainability while maintaining functionality with walkways to the lake and permeable pavement for parking.
The revised plan features 7 buildings with an additional floor, providing 228 units while maintaining 414 parking spaces (exceeding the required 410). Removing one building enhances lake exposure for residents and creates space for future developments like a retail area. The design maintains strong community connections, with walkways to the lake and permeable pavement for parking to promote sustainability.
EDSA | RIVER FRONT DEVELOPMENT
Front Street Development | Norfolk, VA
I developed this master plans for mid-scale urban project, focusing on site test fits, parking layouts, and analyzing constraints and opportunities. I calculated potential project outputs and successfully presented findings to clients. Throughout these exercises, I prioritized sustainable design practices to create efficient and responsible urban solutions.
Plan: Blowup of the Elizabeth river trail
through the Elizabeth river trail
Plan: Master plan with parking count
EDSA | RIVER FRONT DEVELOPMENT
Front Street Development | Norfolk, VA
Visualizations of the Front Street Development for client meeting
EDSA | MASTER PLAN CONCEPTUALIZATION
Master Plan Conceptualization
Contributed to the master plan conceptualization from site analysis to initial land use planning, gaining hands-on experience in large-scale project development. Developed base drawings and integrated site opportunities and constraints into the design process.
Site
Site
EDSA | GRADING DESIGN EXERCISE
Grading Exercise | Sketch, CAD, Revit
During my time at EDSA, I was actively involved in various projects as part of the grading design team, contributing to different phases of the design process. I gained hands-on experience in grading design, refining my skills in both conceptual and technical aspects.
Project title and client’s name has been removed due to NDA restrictions
Sketch over print to manipulate garding
Manipulated grading in Revit model
Example of my grading excercise at EDSA
Example of my grading excercise at EDSA
BOTANICAL CITY ENGLEWOOD TRAIL
BOTANICAL CITY | ENGLEWOOD TRAIL
I got the opportunity to do Summer Internship at Botanical City LLC. in 2022. During this landscape architecture internship I worked as a design team member for the Englewood Trail Project, Chicago, IL. One of the great experience was arranging a community meeting At the community gathering, we were trying to understand and document their stories.
Concept rendering of the entry of the trail from 59th Halstead St.
SOCIAL ROOF | DHAKA, BANGLADESH
Other Design Team Member: Suravi Pushpa I designed and collaborated with a construction team to design a social space within Dhaka’s bustling urban fabric. The goal was to create a gathering place where residents could come SOCIAL ROOF AT CIVIL MARIAM PLOT NO -42, SECTOR -13, ROAD-13, UTTARA, DHAKA. PLANTER BOX
SHADED BANGALIANA SEATING LITTLE AQUARIUM
RAISED PLANTER BOX
GALLERY SEATING
BASKETBALL RING OCCASIONAL FLOOR PAINTING
ROUGH FLOOR TILES CAST ON SITE HANGING CHAIR
SHADED PANTRY/SEATING
SEPARATED SEATING AREA
AQUARIUM
OFFICE BUILDING: SUMMIT POWER
Consultant: Cactus Consultants
My Role: Architect, Partner
Other Design Team Member: Prottay Roy, Alok Das
Advisor: Sculptor Hamiduzzaman
Client: Summit Power & Ace Alliance
Location: Gazipur, Bangladesh
Site area: 200 Sqm
Led the design and coordination of Summit Power’s office building in Bangladesh, serving as the key project architect and primary liaison. Oversaw construction supervision, collaborating with consultants and contractors to ensure successful project completion.
OFFICE
THE DRIVERLESS CITY PROJECT
Ubiquitous co-robots offer society a unique opportunity to reshape our transportation infrastructure. To do so, we must balance the needs of safety, usability, and aesthetics These innovations will have consequences, either beneficial or detrimental, to the urban structure. The Driverless City Project, a current initiative at the Illinois Institute of Technology, interrogates these technologies' urban design implications, focusing on social equity, risk and safety, and environmental quality: How can the street right-of-way change from 20th Century transportation infrastructure into 21st Century human infrastructure?
Research Title: The Urban Design and Policy Implications of Ubiquitous Robots and Navigation Safety Grant: NSF Grant ($750,000)
Other Grants/Prizes: Nayar Prize, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant
Recipient: Illinois Institute of Technology Award/Recognition:
1.Illinois Tech Special Acknowledgment Research Award 2022
2.Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Annual Conference, 2023 (Research poster presentation)
Designation: Funded Graduate Research Assistant (invited)
Duration: 12 Months
Superviser: Prof. Ron Henderson FASLA (Director of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program, IIT)
My contributions:
1. Conducted research on urban streetscape to calculate and understand more usability of the future streets while ubiquitous corobots will be on the street. And incorporating landscape elements as guiding elements for the co-robots. Researched future leftover/unused spaces like gas stations and parking lots to understand how to utilize and add value to them in the future from an urban design and landscape architecture perspective.
2. Analyzed Cloud points to study the GPS availability of State Street, Chicago, IL
3. Created several maps and diagrams showing various data
4. Compiled interviews for the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant publication
5. Designed the publication ‘The Driverless City: The SocioEnvironmental Implications to Urban Waters’
6. Designed the mindmap showing three different impact areas of urban water
THE DRIVERLESS CITY PROJECT: RESEARCH POSTER
The research poster has been accepted for presentation at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Annual Conference, 2023. The poster also won the IIT Special Acknowledgment Research Award 2022
URBAN ORCHARD: AGRICULTURE IS CULTURE
Studio : MLA+U Studio III (12 Weeks)
Project type : An group Project with Johann Friedl (MLA) and Caitlin Brown (B.Arch)
My Role : Concept Development, Landscape Design, Visualization, and Presentation
Studio faculty: Maria Villalobos, Dirk Denison
The proposal of the project is: A productive urban orchard can support Englewood’s mission to become an agricultural hub, create jobs, frame urban space, and encourage densification betweentheEnglewoodtrailand63rdstreet.
Arriving from the Englewood Trail, the community will enjoy a prairie landscape. In addition, this zone will function as a rainwater collection point. The spongious nature of the native landscape will also welcome native insects and invite birds.
Entry from the Englewood Trail
Adaptive reuse building as a community center
Starting at the 59th on the west side of Halsted Street, the orchard has a walkway that opens up various layers of trees. This particular area is quiet and restful.
The east side of Halsted Street has a labyrinth composed of freestanding walls. The walls represent the preexisting buildings.
Wood workshop and market Gathering shade
The 60' route was reduced to two tracks by 12' with a median of 10'. The space gained from the asphalt road becomes a bicycle path with permeable pavement and swales to make the ground more soaking.
Cherry Apple
Pawpaw Plum Peach
Apricot
Service Berry
Creating communal spaces between orchards will add more value to the landscape as a multifunctional space. The dynamic past of the Englewood community will be back as well as the It will become the agro-eco-district, which allows the community to grow its food and businesses.
STORIED QUARRY
In the early 1880s, a flourishing limestone quarry was the principal business enterprise of the town of Lyons (Illinois). The idea of the project is to build an environment similar to a quarry on the Des Plaines river's edge to recall the socio-economic contribution of the limestone quarry which helped create the community or neighborhood. The community park will become a geologic educational area for future generations, representing the formation of limestone, the quarry environment, and ecological diversity in a limestonequarry atdifferenttimes.
Studio : MLA+U Studio II
Studio faculty: Nilay Mistry
Duration : 6 Weeks
Project type : Individual Erosion
Existing building and river edge
Existing canopy layer
Section
Des Plaines River
PIONEER COURT
Chicago is a vibrant city of the 21st century. At the heart of the city pioneer court is one of the most important places of all because of its historic value. Pioneer court is a multi-level site that was once the homestead of the Du Sable family, founder of Chicago. In this design, the historic characteristics have been infused with modern definition ofthepublic realm
Studio : MLA+U Studio II
Studio faculty: Sarah Hanson
Duration : 06 Weeks
Project type : Individual
10 Minutes Walking Distance Covers a large percentage of Sky Scrapers and Central Business District of Chicago Pioneer Court Plaza, Chicago
05 Minutes Walking Distance Central Attraction Point of City Chicago Along with the River Walk.
15 Minutes Walking Distance Touches Navy Pier on the East, Millennium Park on the South and Covers Vital Civic Centers Like the Chicago Culture Center etc.
Existing Connectivity and Design Consideration
Separation: Sight Seeing
Interplay of “Three” elements: Slope, Edge, Water, interlocking and creating space
The ramp and stair works as a joint element that also accommodate green chunk that flows through the space.
The 40% of the site area has been cut to create the connection between lower level and upper level. In this design this 40% area has been used as bioswale that directly connected to the ground beneath. But it is also creating circulation and indoor-outdoor connectivity along the site.
PLAY LINK: BOUNDED REFINEMENT
Studio : MLA+U Studio I
Studio faculty: Nilay Mistry
Duration : 04 Weeks
Project type : Individual
Connecting: Upper Story
Stepping Step Connectivity -Richard TT Forman
Connecting: Lower Story
The design initiates a sense of wonder and curiosity by connecting the natural attributes of the stream, woodland, and meadow with several connected "play stations" that encompass stream plan, ground play, and tree canopy play experiences. We often think of play as frivolous, but it is an important element of human development.
Concept: Gradually healing the ecology and connecting the community with integration of play space
Ecological Bridge connects the fragmented area of the site with the resourceful part of the forest land both at the canopy level and at the ground level.
Existing Car Parking
Keeping the existing parking area to reduce construction but reshaping and utilizing water permeable materials.
360 Slide at the center of the park and holds the spirit of the play ground. The slide is double-wide on two sides so a care-giver and their child can go together.
Water Trail allows to experience the characteristics of the wetland closely for the kids who shouldn't go close to the river for their age.
Viewing Deck
The lower ramp and the upper ramp has decks close to the river to creating a connection with the river and the other side of the reserved forest land
The Ramp is designed considering the existing trees and creating the scope to introduce some local plants to create a journey.
The Walking Trail has been designed as a discovery pathway.
Seating Area has sand and small stone chips to making the place more relaxing
The Des Plaines River
Planting design has been introduced to create various experience like tunnel and openness, dramatic changes of the color of leaves, creating space with canopy layer and considering the existing bio diversity of the reserved forest land
Accommodating diverse play and learning opportunities that provide room for children's imagination, creativity, curiosity and meaningful interaction with nature was the main field for exploration in the project
The Walking Trail has been designed as a discovery pathway
Bicycle Trail has one circular and one infinity loop
Topography has been modified to create happening spaces and considering various flood levels
Exploded axonometric
Landscape Furniture
Oak Tree Ash Tree Cedar Tree Elm Tree
White Tailed Deer Cedar Waxwing Great Horned Owl Cooper’s Hawk Squirrel Frog Earthworm Bumble Bee
Rope Climbing some of the existing mature tree has ropes to climb
Learning Loop feature for kids and beginners who are just starting out
Discovery Zones are spreaded out the whole site to explore the nature
Furniture some retaining walls turned into landscape furniture
The ramp has stories of the animals and plants in the forest land inscribed and the glass rail accommodate some interactive information board that allows children to know the surroundings. Viewing decks are accessible. Differently able children have the opportunity to experience the nature. The top deck has one side with ramp and other side with stairs with planter box.
NOSTALGIA: LANDSCAPE MEMORY
Studio : MLA+U Studio I
Studio faculty: Nilay Mistry
Duration : 01 Week
Project type : Individual
When I walk across the lakefront walkway in Dhanmondi, Dhaka, I see the leaves touch the water, feel the floor washed by the rain, listen to the music of the leaves - that brings me to my childhood, to my hometown riverside walk. I lose myself at the same time in two different times and spaces.
In this hybrid graphic image, the bridge stands for time, from the past to the present and the future. All those white silhouettes are mine. I'm walking the trail of time. The white elements are my memory track and other characters in the picture are busy in their own world, so they are blurry in my story The green-water-sky of my hometown is more vibrant because it's the place I want to be. This is how the present real-world meet my memory world. And the lake becomes the river Brahmaputra of my hometown in front of my eyes. Thus the image represents my mental status of Nostalgia.
The growing nature seems to heal and smooth over any and all human errors. The experience of the surrounding nature brings us a local microenvironment as well as a part of mother nature, it is all connected and has the energy to bring us to another place at the same time, in the intangible world. I can connect myself with my other self through this place. The green, water, sky, and the crowd give me a sense of Nostalgia.
DESIGN MEDIA
In the Design Media course I learned to represent a concept with different media.
Faculty: Kelly Murphy, Jameson Skaife
Concept: Erosion is the indication of a force in the intervened area, the force is water that is behind the happening of the new landscape form. At the same time, water is taking the place of the land creating its own pathway
Diagram showing the principles of modified contour (Rhino model)
Dotted line showing the work area for the next steps (AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop)
Model photographs (Laser-cut model)
Section render on modified topography: Imaginary scape (Photoshop)
Modified Topography
Existing Topography
Axono chunk: Imagining the scape (Clay model photograph, Adobe Photoshop)
BENGAL INSTITUTE: BRAC LEARNING CENTER
Project year : 2017-2019
My Role : Design Team Member
Supervisor : Prof. Kazi Khaleed Ashraf, Ar. Hasibul Kabir
Client: BRAC University
Location : Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Area: 12 Acres
It is a pressing need to re-model the campus, integrating natural balance and the increasing number of learners. In the new design, priority was given to native ecology andculturalaspectstoblendthebuiltenvironmentwithsurroundingcontext.
The Seasonal Ghat: The river-ghat is segmented in the levels keeping in mind the change of water level in various seasons
The Amphitheater: A platform for folk theater, folk dance, folk tale and folk music
The River Front Plaza: Art Street meets the river Bramhaputra, the heart of the Mymensingh city, here. Different types of social gathering will take place at this ghat
DESIGN OF A PUBLIC REALM
Studio : Design Studio X Duration : 14 Weeks
Project type : Individual
Project year : 2016
4th Place in Adaptive Reuse Architecture Design Competition
Epilogue ‘09: Ideas-Expo-Projects
CityCorporationLibrary
A prior infrastructure with a twist of contemporary architecture offers an immense collection of books to develop opulent readers with a plinth tobreatheandgatheringreen.
PotteryCorner
A complex of pottery hut and gallery extracts the essence of renowned potteryartandNakshiKatha.
BambooCorner
A designed bamboo corner (an endemic product material) presents the customary traditions and conventionalbamboo-art.
FoodCorner
A former official building proposed as a food hall will serve local foods (pitha) along with modern cuisine including a coffee corner by the pond.
BoutiqueCorner
A combined museum and a boutique shop brings up the worldwide famous handloom equipment with hand-woven-attires.
ArtistVillage Small cottages warmly welcome artists from worldwide in the most amenabletropicalenvironment.
a A music gallery proposed to restore in such a way that it will carry its magnitude and offers a sense of folk music and relevant folk instruments.
Creating the connection of a city dweller with his own identity and heritage is the main goal of this project. Mymensingh region is famous for folk arts, folk music, folk tales, myth, legends, folk costumes, folk ornaments, folk cultural foods and folk architecture. The Art Street is a Bridge to connect the city dwellers with their own rich heritageandtheriverBramhaputra.
The folk music gallery secures a historic incident too. The abandoned Officer’s residence has a historic wall that carries marks ofbulletshotsduringtheLiberationwar.
ModelPhotograph
FolkMusicCorner
An intricate corner for visitors, musicians, instrumentalists to feel every bit of folk music from a different standpoint. Everysectionwillremainundisturbedwithitsuniqueness.
The ground floor will be utilized as a wing for manufacturers or processors of folk music instruments by theindigenousprocessbylocalmakers.
An open shop allows visitors to purchase exquisite instant-made local music instruments so that one can carryachunkofheritagewiththemasasouvenir.
The stair connects the visitor indirectly with the music ambiance. The distinctive section for visitors is dedicated toenjoymusicwithoutdistractingtheartists.
An open plinth to celebrate music sitting beside the pond
A walkway towards the plaza andriverBramhaputra West Elevation
North Elevation
East Elevation
South Elevation
VISIONING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE R(E)VOLUTION
Studio : Design Studio VIII
Duration : 10 Weeks
Project type : Group of three
Project year : 2015
Aim of this project is an exploration of People-Land-Water in an emerging urban area in Bangladesh.The site of this project is in Borobari village of Kaliakair upazilla in Gazipur district. The goal of this project is rethinking about living pattern of villagers by developing a compact but effective system in the middle of usual village context. From that perspective we set ourdesignconcept‘Agro-forestry’.
Campus (UTC)
Dot.Amber Student Design Competition
MASTER PLAN: ACADEMIC CAMPUS
Studio : Design Studio VII
Duration : 14 Weeks
Project type : Group
Project year : 2016
Berger Student Award Program 2015 Short-listed
COMPETITION ENTRY
Landmark Monument
Institute Of Architects Bangladesh
Project year : 2020
Project type : Competition (Team Work with Prottay Roy, Naziur, Saleh Ahmed)
Dhaka University, the first graduate education institution on this land of Bengal is on its way to complete a journey of 100 years by 2021. For half this time, it’s path has been intertwined with the journey of Bangladesh as an independent country. To commemorate their separate yet entwined journey and to create an iconic projection of the years to come, a 'Dhaka University Monument' has been proposed in the university premise, in the very site where Kendrio Shahid Minar was decided to be built in 1972.
IAAC: 6th Advanced Architecture
Student Design Contest
Project type : Group Project
Project year : 2016
Team: Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Saleh Ahmed
Anik, Prottay Roy Chowdhury, Alok Das
Eiffel Tower in the evening
1.Landscape for the people. Vondelpark, Amsterdam ; 2. Missouri Botanical Garden
‘One straw.
I picked up some straw from in front of the hut and said, “From just this one straw a revolution could begin.” “With the destruction of mankind at hand, you can still hope to cling to a straw?” one youth asked, with a touch of bitterness in his voice. This straw appears small and light, and most people do not know how to really weighty it is. If people knew the true value of this straw a human revolution could occur which would become powerful enough to move the country and the world.
