KP Mars Salauddin_Ibrahim

KP Mars Salauddin Ibrahim
Simplex Multi-Apartment · Jolshiri Abashon, Sector 11, Dhaka · 2025

KP Mars occupies a 5-katha corner plot in Jolshiri Sector 11, a residential setting where the street geometry offered both an environmental opportunity and a compositional challenge. The building responds to its corner condition not with a symmetrical gesture but with a section that works differently on each face, each elevation tuned to its orientation and the life it frames.

The corner placement is the project's primary ventilation strategy. Openings are positioned across both street faces to draw prevailing winds through the full depth of each floor, reducing dependence on mechanical cooling through spatial logic rather than technical overlay.

The west facade carries the climate agenda most directly. A deep, continuous terrace runs along this face, its projection calibrated against the afternoon sun. Wide enough to plant and occupy, it functions simultaneously as a shading device and an outdoor room, collapsing the distinction between environmental performance and inhabitable space.

A sky garden at an elevated level introduces a second layer of green infrastructure above the ground plane. Together with the planted terraces cascading down the facade, it builds a vertical landscape that moderates the building's microclimate and anchors it within the leafy residential fabric of Jolshiri.

The material palette is restrained: a concrete frame, warm timber cladding at the terrace soffits, and dark-toned glazing that recedes behind the depth of the projecting slabs. The building's character is established not through surface treatment but through the rhythm of solid and void, shade and light, that the section produces as it rises.