ASIF KHAN PORTFOLIO LA 2022

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ABOUT ME I am an aspiring Landscape Architect with a backg�ound in Architect�re. I passed my childhood and adolescence in a small town in Bangladesh and in 2019 joined Iowa State Universit� to pursue my Master of Landscape Architect�re deg�ee.

I love to desig� as it deals with t�ansfor�ing realit� into meaning��l and ecologically viable spaces, which oſten nur��re human festivit� and social capital.

Moreover, I believe the role of Landscape Architect�re is going to be ver� impor�ant in the near f�t�re because the consideration of nat�ral contex�, species diversit� and protection , ecologically healthy systems within the built environment- all come under one roof.

That is why Lanscape desig� is ver� liberating and wholesome to me because it provides oppor��nities to create memor� inducing spaces as well as provides valuable ser�ice in maintaining the ecological balance and integ�ation.

I also enjoy painting, sketching, t�avelling, reading and writing poet��, playing cricket and oſten times, love to appreciate what a wonderf�l oppor��nit� it is, just to be alive and having the eyes to see and wonder, the hear� to appreciate beaut� and the mind that st�ives to create.

ASIF KHAN

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+1515 708 7032 l aekhan@iastate.edu l 1910 Stotts Road (Apt. 147C) l Ames, IA l 50010 Current Status: Graduate Student

l Interests l

Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

- Social Space dynamics - Community Design & Landscape

- Cultural Landscape

- Revitalization

- Urban Transformation

- Material reuse and Experiments

SELECTED WORKS

MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

LIVING IN SYNERGY

A BARRIER FREE BISON SANCTUARY

CITY MATTERS

l Education l 2019- Current

Graduation Date: May, 2022

2011-2016

Master of Landscape Architecture

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.

Bachelor of Architecture

Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Thesis: Rethinking and Conservation of Prithim Pasha Nawab Bari, Kulaura, Sylhet, Bangladesh

CITY SKIN & SYSTEMS

EXPERIENTIAL MONUMENT ON PLASTIC POLLUTION

l Experience l Summer 2020:

Design Assistant

ELWOOD HOUSE RESIDENCE LANDSCAPE DESIGN

Japanese Garden conservation at the Muscatine Arts center, Muscatine, Iowa.

Supervisor: Heidi Hohmann

2018-2019:

Junior Architect

2017 (April-July)

Internship 2

2017 (Jan-Mar)

Internship 1

Formosis Architects,

COMPETITIONS

Sylhet, Bangladesh.

J.A. Architects, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Atelier Robin, Architect.

Dhaka, Bangladesh.

l Skills l - Autodesk AutoCAD - Rhino - SketchUp - Lumion Pro - Adobe Graphics suite (Ps, iA, In, Pr) - Microsoft Office - Sketching - Painting

l Awards l Barbara King Scholarship for Innovation and Enterpreneurship 2020

Iowa State University Proposal: Comm(Unity): Investigation of Outdoor Space to propose a third place (social) for neighborhood conviviality.

CHAMPION: ‘AMRAO MANUSH’ Design Charette 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Sajida Foundation & Paraa Role: Team Leader

TOP 16 Berkeley Prize Architectural Essay Competition 2015, 2016 2015: Embracing Poverty 2016: Building Dreams Together

BERGER Young Artist Competition 2016

Painting shortlisted and exhibited at Zainul Galley, Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka,

SELECTED WORKS

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE

RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT AT SOUTH SURMA, SYLHET. MONUMENT FOR UNKNOWN MARTYRS, SYLHET.

Native Prairie Bison

Ecology Group

ANALYSIS SWOT SITE AXONOMETRIC SWOT AXONOMETRIC

LIVING IN SYNERGY

A BARRIER-FREE BISON SANCTUARY

STRENGHTS •The property’s woodland areas (oak savanna, basswood woodland, bottomland woodland, elm woodland) are assets for maintaining species biodiversity, as well as providing habitat to wildlife.

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Site: Story City, Iowa Focus: Bison grounds, revenue.

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•Oxbow wetlands in creek. The oxbows store excess water that would otherZLVH OHDG WR ÁRRGLQJ ÀOWrate water to improve water quality and offer habitat to a variety of wildlife.

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•Capacity for bison territory expansion/relocation.

The project is about creating a barrier-free Bison sancturay along with habitat restoration and attraction throughout the 180 acres site located in Story City, Iowa. Additionally, experiential programs for visitors are integrated as parallel context.

The project has primarily three components - Designing Bison grounds without any fence. Instead, living, native shrubs are used for fencing and species of shrubs are allocated based on soil texture and c o n t e x t .

Creating a variety of experience for visitors that includes native flower bouque shop, open kitcehn, night stays, star gazing camps and an open museum trail that exhibits Lakota traditions and relics.

Connected habitat is also created for butterflies by integrating native flower species throughout the site within the flying range of bees.

Revenue generation scheme from Cut flower farming, especially with native flowers with about 25% of non invasive foreign species.

WEAKNESSES

LOCATION

•Replacement of large area of Elm trees (Elm woodland area) would result in a temporary loss of habitat and carbon sequestration while oak savanna is maturing.

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THREATS •Worsening erosion due to Bear Creek snow PHOW DQG DJULFXOWXUDO ÀHOG UXQRII PRYLQJ down slope from the east side of property.

•Reduced water quality due to runoff containing pesticides, soil sediment (soil erosion), and nutrients (phosphorus, nitrogen, potassiXP IHUWLOL]HUV IURP DJULFXOWXUDO ÀHOGV $OO RI these deplete oxygen in the creek and make it harmful to aquatic life.

EXPERIENTIAL CATELOGUE FROM SITE VISIT

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•Runoff pond improvements and introduction of swale systems to store rainwater for plant irrigation.

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Mutiple spots where the creek flow is obstrcted or altered.

POOR INVASIVE SPECIES MONITORING

Winter- hold for Bisons

Manure odor

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Bird sounds

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Corn storage

Corn field view

Built forms visible

Corn field view

Pocket spaces visible in the landscape

Stagnant creek

Wire fencing

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Steep ground with sticky clay

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Small lake beside built forms

White gravel road

Sun exposure fullmeadow like scape

Obstructed creek Hen of the forest

Shrunk creek (crossed b jumping)

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CREEK & SOIL POLLUTION FROM NITRATE & OTHER CHEMICALS

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to provide a slightly larger gap below the fence and allow animals to pass under easily. Many cattle ranchers have found that although a small calf may slip under the higher bottom wire, it can also easily slip back again to its mom and not be stranded on the wrong side of the fence.

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DESIGN CONSIDERAION & PROCESS

Wildlife friendly fence Using slope + FENCE Thorned shrubs for natural fencing IDEAL WILDLIFE FRIENDLY

Slopped garden fencing detail

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The friendliest fences are very visible and allow wild animals to easily jump over or slip under the wires or rails.

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CUT AND FILL Source: A Landowner’s guide to Wildlife Friendly Fences

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Natural fencing plant catalogue Yucca

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CREEK RESTORATION POINTS

Site programming (Using site pockets for visitor programs) Maximizing Continous Bison grounds

Cut flower farm+Live kitchen

Star gazing camp

Sun Flowe Garden

Trail museum

PRAIRIE RESTORATION

Event space

CONCEPTUAL PAINTINGS A conceptual version of the Cut-flower farming gardens. Instead f typical rectangular shape, the gardens are concieved as curved borders weaving around paths.

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Restored and restructured Cylos for night stays. The existing workshop on the left is also modified to have more transparant facade. Green house for indoor grass produce is also considered.

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Tee Pee’s can be seen erect in the star gazing camp uphill, looking down the valley towards the Bison grounds and having the best exposure of the clear Iowa sky. Great scope for stargazing. The hot air baloons near the entrance can be seen far away.

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A view of the Bison Pass (Land bridge) from the museum trail.

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The Savanna-trail museum shows exhibits of Lakota trive and their integral relationship with the Bison. Bison herd can be seen in the far grounds. Artificial water and nature sound is peridoically played to drown the noise from I-35.

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1000’ NATIVE HABITAT RESTORATION SPECIES PRESENT ON SITE

Purple coneflower

RENT SPACE Sweet flag

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Wild ginger

RESTORED PARIRIE Blue false Indigo

Hairy footed lake sedge

Columbine

Blue flag iris

Red Clover

Butterfly milkweed

TRAIL MUSEUM

SUN FLOWER GARDEN

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Great Plains flat sedge

Monkey flower

Prairie Lilly

LIVE KITCHEN

Pasque

American lotus

Yarrow

STAR GAZING CAMP

FLOWER STORE

CUT FLOWER FARM

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CUT FLOWER GARDEN

PROTECTIVE NATURAL FENCE WITH TRENCH

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200’ 160’ Compass plant

NATIVE TALL & SHORT GRASS Typ. Turf grass Buffalo grass

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Prairie Sunflower

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PROTECTIVE NATURAL FENCING (THORNED SHRUBS)

CUT FLOWER GARDEN

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ELEVATED VIEW DECKS

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CITY MATTERS Site: Market district Des Moines, Iowa Focus: Market street Level 2, Term 2

Bike trail

Green roof

Permeable surface-‘Splash’

CITY SKIN & SYSTEMS

Context: The vision of Market district in Des Moines, Iowaemphasizing the market street is to create a sustainable, active street-scape that thrives with festivity. To develop festive transformation, the monotonous predictable image of grid roads is questioned and selected parking spaces are reppurposed to overlay a secondary organic surface called ‘splash’ is proposed (made of blue pigmented pervious concrete) that weaves through blocks and streets turning unused & relocated parking spaces to social spaces.

Extended semi outdoor retail market Market plaza

Artist corner

Colored pave

Place markers

The project addresses the social activity generator issue, sustainable energy production and water management issue and develops a walkable and bike friendly neighborhood.

The market street becomes a merging platform that is accessed via formal and informal routes and holds multiple connected activity stages and rooms for people to socialize in small and large groups.

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Flood Map analysis

Property Ownnership analysis

Ecological Zoning

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Reclaiming Parking Spaces: Selecting parking space to repurpose into public spaces

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Cultural:

Connecting neighborhoods Public street event spaces Historic buildings repurposed

Blue pervious ‘Splash’ Skin connects the parking spaceinfomal against formal monotonous iron-grid road

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Connections: Connecting bike trails connect market st. to riverside park & Bio retention zone connecting public spaces with Splash

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EXPERIENTIAL MONUMENT ON PLASTIC POLLUTION Site: Stuwart Smith Park, Ames, Iowa Year 2, Level 1 Context:

Plastic pollution is a global problem. We all know about it but still, plastic waste increases with each year. This project addresses the issue of plastic pollution and brings people face to face with the disastrous impacts it is having.

Using the five stages of grief model, the project manifests into a journey through five blocks represententng the five stages and tries to raise awareness provocatively, so that people can question the role they might play to raise voice.

Violation(Poem Narrative) Asif Khan

‘What is it?’- I asked, annoyed.

Without even looking away from the screen.

The match I was watching was hanging on a tilt.

The excitement ran through like electric charge.

Hard, it is, to look away from such an urge.

‘What is it?’ I asked in reply, and then, She spoke.

“From the first breath of air, The first droplet of water to quench your thirst, The colors that yours eyes feast up on, I have cared, indiscriminately. Sustained, pleasured.

Never asked for anything, but gave places and spaces.

Produced food and thrived with lushness That you like so much.

But I tried my best and now, I am tired. I am ill.

My own blood streams are filthy, polluted.

My air pipe is jammed and I can’t breathe.

All my other children are suffering, crying- helpless.

And I cannot help them now.

For years and years, I thought, Surely this is a passing phase.

Surely there will be change and I will live freely again.

But all my hopes are in a dark place.

I come here now, with a plea.

An account of insult and crime.

Against you. And I want you to see me.

Look me in the eye and acknowledge.

Your actions.

I am your mother. (Nature) And you, my child, have violated me.”

Digital art: Ziaur Ovi

Alarming state of Plastic Pollution

Ocean Plastic

STRATEGY FLOW CHART

Site Location and Visual Presence

EXPERIENCE

Iowa State University

PLASTIC PLLUTION IMPACTS

MANIFESTATION

Residential area

Hilton Colloseum

5 STAGES OF GRIEF Kübler-Ross model DENIAL ANGER BARGAIN DEPRESSION ACCEPTANCE

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Journey in a loop the loop of plastic

5 sections depicting stages of grief breaking the form in 5 parts

adjusting according to site context creek view opening

manipulating the parts based on site context and opportunity

pristine landscape Pristine landscape space entrance exit

Using Billboards of Pollution causing companies as facades

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Entrance: Using Bilboards of most plastic pollution causing companies as facade and creating paved entrance with recycled plastic invites a visitor in a phase of denial- everything looks in order.

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Billboards of pollution causing compaies Used as facade

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As people start to go ahead, the pathway starts to get filled with plastic waste- creating a disturbance whereas pristine landscape prevails outside.

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This block is made of recycled wooden panels used to project facts and information about plastic waste - a phase for people to calculate and wonder about the situation.

Plastic debris on walkway

4. Depression

This block creates a sense of depression and loss by projecting graphic photographs and statues of dying and trapped animals due to plastic pollution.

Plastic trapped wildlife exhibits

5. Acceptance

The final Acceptance block shows a scenario of a plastic filled world where traped statues of children (next generation) are looking at us for help.

Elwood House Historic Garden Photograph

Inspiration Boards

Site: Ash Ave, Ames Year 2, Level 1

Aluysum Lavender Day lilies Candytuft

Context: P. Elwood had been the chair of Landscape Architecture department for several years and now, his house is being owned by Hans and Megan. Hans is currently a Landscape Architecture faculty at Iowa State and Megan is a librarian. We were asked to redesign the landscape of the residence keeping in view the historical context and objects within the landscape.

Clematis Getrude Jekyll White pool border

Before starting the project, I asked Hans and Megan to provide me three poems of their choice that they feel close to. Taking the poems as precedents and also considering the site forces and aspects, I tried to design the landscape in a sequence of rooms and stages. The rooms are inspired from the poems and are adorned with vegetations that go along with the poem and also the climatic consideration to the site. The site clearly showed a cross axis that existed and so I tried to incorporate the ases in the design and used poem plates, pergolas, sitting space near the existing pool and terminated the axis with a lamp, commemmorating the historic japanese lamp that was there before.

Lavender driveway canopy

Outdoor dining Clematis canopy Daylilly border

Ext. old gateway Forsithya border 3’ Pool side fire- reading Ext. pool

Jekyll inspired garden

Restored Lanturn with new design

Native flowers Birds attract White borders

Poem taken from client as Inspiration narrative

Song for Autumn,

by Mary Oliver

In the deep fall don’t you imagine the leaves think how comfortable it will be to touch the earth instead of the nothingness of air and the endless freshets of wind? And don’t you think the trees themselves, especially those with mossy, warm caves, begin to think of the birds that will come — six, a dozen — to sleep inside their bodies? And don’t you hear the goldenrod whispering goodbye, the everlasting being crowned with the first tuffets of snow? The pond vanishes, and the white field over which the fox runs so quickly brings out its blue shadows. And the wind pumps its bellows. And at evening especially, the piled firewood shifts a little, longing to be on its way.

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Yellow flower: 1. Golden Rod 2. WInter Aconite 3.Coreopsis 4.Golden Spring Alysum 5.Day lily

white creeper: 1. cecile brunner 2. silver lace vine 3.climatis snowdrift

Yellow creeper: 1. Yellow trumpet vine 2. Cats claw creep 3.canary creeper 4. Golden creepy sedum

1. Entry 2 Blue hanging creepers from string pergola

white flower: 1. candy tuft 2. star of bethlehem 3.white carpet phlox 4.salvia nemorosa

Yellow flower: 1. Golden Rod 2. WInter Aconite 3.Coreopsis 4.Golden Spring Alysum 5.Day lily

white creeper: 1. cecile brunner 2. silver lace vine 3.climatis snowdrift

Yellow creeper: 1. Yellow trumpet vine 2. Cats claw creep 3.canary creeper 4. Golden creepy sedum

Blue star creeper

3 CC Pave, (poem lines) 4. White flower- plants

Blue star creeper

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screen and dense flower patch - white, yellow, blie. non uniform mound.

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5. Brick Pave 1.Entry 6. Raised brick platform 2.creeper,pergola 7. Circular flower pot(poem) 3.Poem plaque, 8. Yellow creepers CC hanging 9. Fire ground place+ reading 4.White covers,plants 10. Hidden Garden 5.Brick pave 11. Lamp + Full Poem 6.Raised brick platform 7.Daylilly basket 8.Yellow creepers; outdoor dining 9.Fire place+reading Y 10.Hidden garden 11.Restored Lamp+ poem plaque

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Schematic Design

Design Process & Planting Design Canopy driveway

Driveway

First four lines of poem engraved

Restored new lanturn

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Jekyll garden

Ext. old gateway

Spatial Choreography

Ext. pool new fireside sitting

Outdoor dining Clematis canopy Daylilly border

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Azaleas American Weeping Sweetgum Yew Clematis Delphinium Forsythia

Magnolia Stellata

Fireplace

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STRATEGY FLOW CHART RESEARCH - Site Context -Client desires -Hitorical significance -Present relevance -Spatial organization clues from site

Clematis Canopy Cover

Hollyhock Oriental Lily Japanese Iris

Forysthia

ORGANIZING FACTORS Azaleas - Insiration poems from clients - Functional preferences - Historical revival

Golden privet

Perennial Hibiscus

Hidden garden (Delphinium)

Hidden garden (Delphinium)

Fire pit

Fireside sitting

Forysthia

Glory of the snow

Threadleaf coreopsis

Dwarf Deutzia

Yellow Blue Mist Mock clematis (Clematis terniflora) Daylilly Spirea Orange

Forsythia Dwarf Mugo Pine

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Lanturn with wind chime and poem.

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Azaleas candytuft

Spirea

Yellow Begonia

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- Story progresses from entrance to end.

-Flower color palette used to represent poetic relevance.

-Rooms or stages organized in sequence.

- Utilizing site elements, natural contexts and weather status to select native plant palette.

White Rhododendron

White Spirea

Yellow Daylilly

Yellow Clematis Daylilly

Fire pit

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Dwarf Deutza

Magnolia Stellata

Smooth Hydrangea

Dwarf Deutza

Wisteria

Candytuft

Dwarf Deutza

COMPETITIONS

COLUMBARIUM- CHAMBER OF MEMORIES

recycled metal memorial sculpture

wind chimes CONCRETE NICHES FOR URNS

RIGA FOREST CEMETRY, LATVIA. 2021 This competition project was about making a columbarium that has around 500 niches for Urns. Instead of making a covered structure, curved troughs depicting gusts of wind and the niches shape the soil inbetween them as a vase for Daisy flowers (National flower of Latvia).

Recycled metal sheets with leaf shaped perforations used as sculpture to honor the World war I veterans buried in the cemetery.

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SELECTED PAINTINGS PAINTINGS

BULAND DARWAZA, INDIA

AJANTA CAVE, INDIA

THE BLISSFUL PIT

FAILURE

(Acrylic on board, 24”x24”)

This painting was shortlisted and exhibited in the Berger Young Artists Competition, 2013 cycle.

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PROJECTS FROM ARCHITECTURE RETHINKING PORTFOLIO RIVER FRONT AT SOUTH SURMA, SYLHET

PROPOSED PROGRAMS FOR RIVER- FRONT DEVELOPMENT

LEVEL- 4, TERM - 2 GROUP PROJECT MEMBERS: ROLE:

ASIF EMRAN KHAN & SHOVON SHAHRIAR LITERATURE STUDY, PLANNING, FUNCTION ASSIGNING, DESIGN DEVELOPMENT, DETAILING, PRESENTATION

RETHINKING RIVERFRONT AT RETHINKING RIVER FRONT SOUTH SURMA, AT SOUTH SURMA, SYLHET. SYLHET LEVEL- 4, TERM - 2 GROUP PROJECT MEMBERS: ROLE:

ASIF EMRAN KHAN & SHOVON SHAHRIAR LITERATURE STUDY, PLANNING, FUNCTION ASSIGNING, DESIGN DEVELOPMENT, DETAILING, PRESENTATION

Krishti chaya :

The site given was the south bank of the river Surma, in Sylhet. It was on the outskirts of the main town with rich activity and vibrancy. We were to propose a major function for the riverfront development and develop the project along with other necessary functions. We proposed for a culture shed –‘Krishti Chaya’ Sylhet has numerous rich, old heritage involvements that is needed to be preserved and publicized. The different traditional practices and goods have no common place to demonstrate or sharing. Many are The site given was theto south bank the river Surma,A endangered, due lack ofof nourishment. in Sylhet. It was thedwellers outskirts of main town with ‘necessity’ for on town forthe experiencing and rich activity cultural and vibrancy.

We were to propose celebrating differences.

The culture Sheltera– major function for the mainly riverfront and namely ‘Krishti Chaya’ is adevelopment vast open space develop the project done along by with different other necessary for performances cultural functions.

We proposed for a culture shed –‘Krishti organizations Chaya’ Sylhet has numerous rich, old heritage involvements that is needed to be preserved and publicized. The different traditional practices and goods have no common place to demonstrate or sharing. Many are endangered, due to lack of nourishment. A ‘necessity’ for town dwellers for experiencing and celebrating cultural differences. The culture Shelter – namely ‘Krishti Chaya’ mainly is a vast open space for performances done by different cultural organizations

A massive shade that will eventually becomea landmark. Different cultural organizations will perform here at diferent times. It’s a common place for performing and sharing.

‘Chitro Mela’: open painting fair will occur here.

Restaurant:

A seasonal restaurant that will have the local varieties PROPOSED PROGRAMS FOR of seasonal cuisines and also bangla and other food.

ExhibitionFRONT center: DEVELOPMENT RIVERA permanant exhibition space for exhibiting notable personals of Sylhet. Their biography, achievements and info will be exhibited. Another rentable temporary exhibition space available Craft chaya Shops Krishti : Craft shops display local crafts AA range massiveof shade that that will will eventually becomea and products, sarees etc. organizations local men power can be landmark.

Different cultural utilized in thishere way at diferent times. It’s a common will perform Nursery place for: performing and sharing.

A healthyMela’: and resourceful flower Nursery. This will add ‘Chitro a beautiful vibe thehere. river. It will help to make open painting fairbeside will occur the place an abode of green.

Restaurant: Shop’ and Recycle Shops A‘Mud seasonal restaurant that will have the local varieties Boat housecuisines The river ‘Surma’ can be used as food. tourist of seasonal and also bangla and other water attraction with traditional boats for tourists. It is Exhibition center: a way toexhibition revive the traditional boats and carry Aalso permanant space for exhibiting notable on the tradition. personals of Sylhet. Their biography, achievements and info will be exhibited. Another rentable temporary exhibition space available

Craft Shops

A range of Craft shops that will display local crafts and products, sarees etc. local men power can be utilized in this way Nursery : A healthy and resourceful flower Nursery. This will add a beautiful vibe beside the river. It will help to make the place an abode of green.

‘Mud Shop’ and Recycle Shops

Boat house The river ‘Surma’ can be used as tourist water attraction with traditional boats for tourists. It is also a way to revive the traditional boats and carry on the tradition.

WALK WAY CRAFTS MUSEUM

TREE PARK

AUDIENCE SITTING CRAFT SHOP PERFORMANCE STAGE

KRISHTI CHAYA CULTURE SHED

RESTAURANT

RESTAURANT

GHAT CONSERVED TEMPLE LIBRARY

AUDIENCE

CONSERVED SHRINE

CRAFTS SHOPS

COMMUNITY MOSQUE

SOFT PAVE

HAWKERS

CONSERVED SHRINE

RENOVATED MOSQUE

CONSERVED TEMPLE

LIBRARY

VENDOR SELLERS PLANT NURSERY

MUSEUM

RESTAURANT

COMMUNITY MOSQUE

LIBRARY

MONUMENT UNKNOWN MONUMENT FOR FOR THE UNKNOWN MARTYRS, MARTYRS, SYLHET. SYLHET Year-2, Semester-2 We were to design a monument for 38 martyrs of Tarapur tea estate, Sylhet who were brutally killed by the Pakistani army in 1971. The site was selected near the place where the genocide took place. A black cube was used, floating on hidden strings and posts. the surrounding of the site was green tea garden. The floating cube was a visual disturbance in the serene green. It was concoction, an addition, an obstruction. A mark of that heinous crime. I wanted to make a route to the spot. So I used tunneled way to the monument, creating dramatic light ways inside the tunnel.

Not until the very end of tunnel, can the visitors see the monument again, and when they do, it appears massive with an intimidating scale. The visitors then return through the roof of the tunnel with a sense of freedom.