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lighthouseLighthouse's abstract design of multifaceted facades and their reserved geometry and material palette distinguish it as both visually complex and noble, which brings a sense of much needed order and civic mindedness to the commercially hyperactive street below.

EXPRESSION THROUGH ORIGAMI

Lighthouse is a LEED Gold certified commercial building which is another benchmark of sustainable model by SIMPLETREE that makes itself a signature by origami and the collage-like expressions.

It is a south-facing office building at Kemal Ataturk Avenue in the heart of Banani. This busy commercial street is a strategic east-west link between Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway and Gulshan Avenue, both major north-south thoroughfares in Dhaka. The 15-story building is now surrounded by tall commercial towers all around. The structure occupies a rare corner square lot. Additionally, it is positioned directly across the street from another narrow lane, Banani Super Market Road that allows the building’s main facade to be appreciated at its full height from a distance.

Parks And Play

Retail

Cafes and Lounges

Mosques

Lighthouse utilizes the numerous sustainable features to build a healthy workplace environment for the office-goers within for whom this tower is like a second home.

LEED Gold Certified

Vertical Landscape

Tropical Climate responsive

natural light penetration

Landscaped rooftop

Terraces

Water and energy efficiency

Lavish Double height reception and lobby

improved indoor environmental quality

The collage-like organization of planes, cut-outs, shifts, slides, edges, and strikingly articulated deep sun blades, fixed at various angles, constitutes a uniquely personal solution.

The origami-like large expanses of exposed concrete that wrap south-east and north-west corners seemingly right over glass facades are at once intricately layered and understated in a very clean and elemental way.

What makes the building particularly pleasant is the incorporation of double-height logia and punched landscaped pocket-like terraces at various levels. These intimate spots for lunchbreaks and informal social gatherings are much treasured features in this climate helping in stress reduction.

Various barriers make sure that only those who work in the building are allowed to its territory. However, this interface between public and private domains is negotiated quite intelligently and sensitively, primarily by the use of landscaping and intricate level changes to avoid the use of clear boundary-defining walls. The private domain begins with the entrance to the generous and lavish double-height reception and waiting area draped by the glass giving it transparency and translucence.

DESIGN/COMPLETION

2014/2018

LOCATION

53 Kemal Ataturk Avenue, Dhaka

BUILDING TYPE

Commercial

AREA

Unit 11000 sft

MATERIALS AND ENCLOSURES

Concrete structure, exposed concrete and glass facades, slanted concrete sun breakers, landscaping

LEEDS CERTIFICATION

USGBC LEED Gold Certification

HVAC

Highly efficient VRF system for all the floors

NUMBER of Floors

15 storeys , 4 basements

electrical

3 phase direct metering service for each floor with based lighting control system consisting of LED lights, motion sensor lights alongside the 70% of daylight helping in saving up 25% of energy annually, which is good enough to supply 79 households.

WATER EFFICIENCY

Equipped with Rain water harvesting water treatment tank Drip water irrigation from STP, reuse of condensation water

EMERGENCY BACKUP

The building is equipped with emergency generator backup

LIFE SAFETY

The building has BNBC compliant fire alarm and firefighting system