EXOTICA MATIUR

Exotica Matiur
Simplex Multi-Apartment · Jolshiri Abashon, Sector 17, Dhaka · 2025

Exotica Matiur faces west onto the golf course in Sector 17 of Jolshiri Abashon, a condition that delivers two things simultaneously: an unobstructed view across the fairways to the lake beyond, and the full force of the afternoon sun against the primary facade. The design holds both without surrendering either. The view is preserved through generous glazing and deep projecting balconies on the western elevation. The sun is managed through the same section, the depth of each balcony casting shadow onto the floor below and reducing direct solar penetration into the interior without obstructing the landscape beyond.

The facade is composed as two registers held in productive contrast. The right half of the elevation is resolved in pale concrete, its projecting horizontal slabs and recessed balconies reading as a precise, light-toned frame that mediates between the open western light and the glazed living spaces within. Against this, the left half introduces a darker material register, warm timber screens and rough-textured cladding layered with vertical planting that cascades down the building face. This planted mass on the left provides a second layer of solar filtering while establishing a tectonic counterpoint to the cleaner geometry of the concrete half beside it.

At the rooftop, the composition opens entirely. A planted terrace with flowering bougainvillea crowns the building, its generous outdoor space reading from across the golf course as a deliberate gesture of openness at the summit.

The building's dusk character is distinct from its daytime reading. As the western sun drops behind the course, the warmly lit interiors become visible through the deep balconies, their reflection carried across the water, giving the building an inhabited quality after dark that its section is specifically designed to produce.