Osman Basundhara

Osman Basundhara
Mixed Multi-Use Apartment · Plot 249, Block-I, Basundhara R/A, Dhaka · 2025

Positioned on a corner plot at the intersection of Ahmed Ibrahim Sobhan 6th Avenue and Road-08 in Basundhara R/A, this G+9 residential building for Md. Osman Goni negotiates a generous 40-foot frontage to the east and a secondary 25-foot street to the south. The corner condition is treated not as a residual constraint but as a spatial opportunity, allowing the building to establish a distinctive urban presence on two axes simultaneously.

The ground plane is conceived as an open, permeable landscape. Piloti columns lift the building mass off the site, releasing the ground to a series of open-to-sky percolation zones totalling over 149 sqm of soft green surface distributed across the plot, through which light, rain, and vegetation reclaim the base of the building. A canopied drop-off zone articulates the primary entry, its timber-lined angled ceiling in warm contrast to the raw concrete structure that frames it. Dual driveways organise vehicular access with clarity, while a landscaped median separates movement from pause.

The typical floor section accommodates simplex apartments from floors one through six, each unit organised around a living-dining spine with multiple bedrooms and front verandahs that capture the eastern outlook. The 7th and 8th floors step inward to form a double-storied duplex apartment, its internal void generating a vertical spatial quality rarely encountered in this building typology. The 9th floor resolves as a sky-level terrace residence with a kitchenette, open terraces on three sides, and direct access to the roof, functioning as a penthouse threshold between the built volume and the open sky.

The facade is composed through a layered register of projecting balcony slabs, recessed glazed bays, perforated metal screens, and tiered rooftop canopies. Sun shading fins at beam-bottom level modulate solar exposure floor by floor, while green planter boxes integrated into the upper balustrades extend the landscape vertically up the building face.