Sarinda Café

Sarinda Café
Rooftop Café and Restaurant · CK Ghosh Road, Mymensingh · 2020

Sarinda Café is a rooftop dining concept for the Sarinda Group's building on CK Ghosh Road in Mymensingh, proposing an ensemble of pitched pavilions arranged around a central water body. The water is not decorative. In the heat of Mymensingh's climate, the linear pool at the heart of the courtyard acts as a passive cooling element, reducing the ambient temperature of the surrounding dining spaces and making extended outdoor occupation genuinely comfortable rather than merely possible.

The structural logic of the project is as considered as its environmental one. The building below carries an existing column grid, and the rooftop pavilions are designed to bear directly onto those columns rather than introducing a new structural system. The distinctive umbrella-like pitched forms, with their widened timber-clad canopies tapering down to narrow support points, are a direct expression of this economy, each pavilion shaped to collect its load at the column positions already in place. The geometry follows the structure, and the structure follows the budget.

One corner of the composition breaks from the pavilion logic. A tall chimney-like masonry volume marks the kebab cooking station, its vertical mass anchoring the corner of the rooftop and giving the kitchen programme a spatial presence that the low pavilions around it do not obscure. It reads from a distance as a landmark element, orienting visitors within the rooftop layout.

Inside the main dining pavilion, warm timber-lined pitched ceilings, full-height glazing, and the reflected light from the central water body combine to produce an interior of considerable atmosphere. The entry corridor resolves through a timber-clad passage with a circular brand medallion as its focal point, transitioning from the street-level building below to the rooftop world above.

The project remains an unbuilt concept with a construction area of 292 sqm.