TWINS AT JALSHIRI

TWINS AT JALSHIRI
Simplex and Duplex Apartment · Plot 05 and 07, Sector 02, Jolshiri Abashon, Dhaka · 2023

Two friends. Two plots. One shared vision. TWINS AT JALSHIRI comprises two individually named residential buildings, The LiMamun Park and Whitesand Bay, sited on adjacent plots at Sector 02 of Jolshiri Abashon. Each building belongs to a separate owner, yet the two are conceived as a single architectural gesture: mirror images composed in deliberate bilateral symmetry so that together they read as one ensemble rather than two unrelated neighbours.

The buildings connect at ground level, where a shared basement and a common arrival landscape dissolve the boundary between the two plots. A double-height covered lobby frames the approach, its board-formed concrete structure giving way to a landscaped courtyard of reflecting pools, sculptural elements, and dense planting that functions as the shared domestic interior of both buildings simultaneously. This ground condition transforms what would otherwise have been a simple property line into a genuinely inhabited threshold between two private worlds.

Above ground, the facade character of both towers is defined by the interplay of exposed concrete slab edges, warm copper-toned timber screens, and perforated metal jali panels of geometric patterning that filter light and provide privacy to the transitional terraces behind. Cascading planter boxes at every level introduce a continuous vertical greening, ensuring that the facade reads as a living surface rather than a static architectural composition.

The interior program extends well beyond the residential norm. A lap pool sits beneath a cantilevered concrete staircase, a billiard room and open living volumes with floor-to-ceiling glazing occupy the common floors, and a kitchen-bar with marble island and track-lit ceiling introduces a hospitality register to the domestic sequence. Warm leather furnishings, dark timber joinery, and poured concrete floors establish a material palette that runs consistently from basement to penthouse.

The duplex units in the upper floors introduce double-height living volumes with open mezzanines and generous verandahs, completing a section of considerable spatial ambition that speaks not merely to two buildings sharing a site, but to two households choosing to shape their domestic lives in concert.