Sarinda group

Sarinda Group
Facade Renovation · CK Ghosh Road, Mymensingh · 2020

The Sarinda Group commission begins with an existing condition: a two-storey commercial building on CK Ghosh Road in Mymensingh, its facade a patchwork of signage, makeshift canopies, and ad hoc additions accumulated over years of informal commercial occupation. The building works, in the narrowest sense, but it communicates nothing of the ambition or identity of the Sarinda Group, a client operating across retail, dining, and events.

The renovation does not cosmetically update what is there. It replaces the facade's logic entirely. A dense steel grid is deployed across the full width and height of the building, its modular frame creating a secondary skin that stands independent of the original structure beneath. Within this grid, yellow-lacquered box volumes are suspended at irregular intervals, their chromatic intensity cutting against the dark tone of the metalwork and marking the building's presence on the street with an unmistakable graphic energy. These volumes are not decorative panels. They are inhabitable projections, extending the usable floor area of individual units outward into the facade plane.

Mature trees are grown through and alongside the steel framework, their canopies spilling above the roofline beneath a timber pergola that crowns the composition. The result is a facade that reads simultaneously as infrastructure and landscape, the hard geometry of the grid softened by the irregular growth of the planting, the industrial material palette of steel and glass warmed by wood and vegetation.

At ground level, the entry is resolved as a recessed central stair flanked by glazed retail frontages, the cobbled forecourt pulling pedestrians off the street and into the building's threshold before the interior is reached.