Rashed Residence

Rashed Residence
Private Triplex Residence · Pabna Sodor, Bangladesh · 2010

Rashed Residence proposes a single-family home on a 1.2-katha plot in Pabna Sodor, a site so constrained in footprint that the entire domestic programme must be resolved vertically across three floors. The constraint becomes the project's organising logic. Rather than compressing all functions into an undifferentiated stack, the section separates the house into three distinct atmospheric zones, each floor calibrated to a different quality of occupation and light.

The ground floor holds the most public functions, parking and a living space, its mass set at street level in exposed brick, rough-textured and grounded. Above it, the middle floor carries the dining and sleeping rooms, its character more sheltered and inward, recessed behind the brick piers that rise from below. The top floor belongs to the master bedroom and its open terrace, the most private and most sky-facing space in the house, where the section finally opens after the compression of the floors beneath.

The facade is composed as a dialogue between two materials and two structural logics. The lower brick base is heavy and textural, its surface absorbing light and anchoring the building to the ground. The upper concrete mass floats above it, its board-formed finish lighter in tone and more precise in geometry, marked by a series of deep vertical louvre fins that screen the upper floors from direct sun while giving the elevation a strong tectonic rhythm. This shift in material is also a shift in character: the brick speaks of permanence and place, the concrete of a more abstract domestic order above.

The rooftop terrace is framed by an extended concrete pergola that projects well beyond the building's plan, its parallel fins casting layered shadows across the open deck and anchoring the composition against the sky.

The project, designed in 2010, remains an unbuilt concept with a construction area of 166 sqm.