A VERTICAL MEMORY COLLAGE: MULTI-STORIED ACADEMIC BUILDING, SUST, SYLHET

Project idea

Everyone's varsity life is a treasure trove of memories. In the present day, the interacting spaces within universities reside at ground level, akin to expansive horizontal visual frames that become ingrained in everyone's recollections. However, due to the absence of available land, varsity buildings are now growing skywards. Here at SUST, our current built environments mostly possess introverted characteristics, and our interactive spaces are scattered around courts, fields, and raised platforms within the campus. But this landscape is destined to change with the construction of a 10-story academic building. So, what lies ahead for the future of interactive spaces? How can we ensure that they cultivate lasting memories of varsity life? My vision is to preserve the essence of those horizontal visual frames by creating vibrant, extroverted spaces within this new building, seamlessly connected to the breathtaking natural beauty of SUST. I aspire to establish vertical axes that extend from these interactive spaces, harmonizing with the existing natural fabric of our surroundings. These vertical memory spaces will bestow upon us a captivating collage of cherished recollections when our journey through varsity life reaches its culmination.
Overall, this building will be a gift for Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet which will be an identical applied science building with lots of vertical memory spaces.

Project description

In the Medieval period of architecture, every significant built environment followed a certain geometry in the building form or in the elevation. To design this project, I’ve followed a contemporary geometry system. To incorporate geometry in massing, I took help from Harriss Spiral (Edmund Harriss is teaching math at the University of Arkansas).
A 10-story applied science building within a university should possess a unique identity. In order to distinguish it from other structures, I propose the creation of distinct facade panels that will serve as the identifying feature for each department, while also fulfilling a structural role. Each department will have its own dedicated frames, incorporating their respective logos or distinctive elements. This design approach will enable anyone passing by on the roadside to easily identify the location of each department within the building, without the need to enter it.

Technical information

Aiming to build the project with low-cost materials, in facade panels, Fiber Reinforced Concrete material is proposed to get a strong structural support with beauty. Here Polypropylene Fiber Reinforced (PFR) cement mortar and concrete are proposed to build all facade panels which is one of the cheapest & abundantly available polymers. To mitigate the jungle of columns in quadruple-height entry space, 2 V-shaped composite column is used.

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