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hashi

Asymmetrically composed of three unequal bays the tower’s east façade is designed as a playful composition of single and double floor volumes that frame terraces, balconies, and ledges in a variety of ways.

STANDING WITH THE SOLEIL

There is a system at play here, based on rhythms and strategic repetitions. All concrete parapets – one per floor – can be joined by four diagonal lines in a single zigzagging move. Slotted wood parapets only occur at the central bay every other floor.

Sitting on a rectangular site the building is surrounded by a narrow strip of landscaping on all sides. The building occupies the west side of a T-intersection at Road 4 and is facing east, directly over Road 25, which ensures an unusually high visibility, making its east façade particularly prominent.

Parks And Play

Retail

Cafes and Lounges

Mosques

The fusion of humbleness attributed to the fair-faced concrete, craftmanship and grandiose of luxury interior products welcome the occupants and visitors alike with a space where luxury can be experienced with modesty.

The exercise is a contemporary interpretation of an ongoing search for finding well-balanced ways of opening interiors to a view, while protecting them from tropical sun.

Spacious Community Areas

improved indoor environmental quality

natural light penetration

climate responsive design

Spacious verandas

Well Ventilated

Vertical Landscape

Hashi is about refining familiar sun shading elements, bringing a variety of materials – concrete, wood, glass, and combination of thereof – and avoiding predictable repetitions to achieve spatially dynamic composition.

Hashi opens up to the natural daylight with its staggering at both the western and the eastern front, creating healthy indoor environment for the occupants within.

Every floor has four exposures and the top several units enjoy uninterrupted views all around.

The rhythmic, playfulness with the exposure allows Hashi to have a dynamic relation with its interior and the exterior.

DESIGN/COMPLETION

2015/2018

LOCATION

135, Road 4, Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh

BUILDING TYPE

Mixed-Use

AREA

Gross 37,006 sft

MATERIALS AND ENCLOSURES

Exposed concrete walls and sun blades, slotted wood and glass balcony parapets, stone flooring, landscaping

HVAC

Highly efficient VRF system for all the floors

NUMBER of Floors

10 storeys , 2 basements

electrical

3 phase direct metering service for each floor

WATER EFFICIENCY

Equipped with water treatment plant

EMERGENCY BACKUP

The building is equipped with emergency generator backup

LIFE SAFETY

The building has BNBC compliant fire alarm and firefighting system

hashiAsymmetrically composed of three unequal bays the tower’s east façade is designed as a playful composition of single and double floor volumes that frame terraces, balconies, and ledges in a variety of ways.