Housing the Urban In(di)visibles

The strategy takes advantages of its lush urban setting by providing a new and significant connection to the newly redeveloped waterfront. Located behind expressway and water, the scheme responds to its site and stretches out towards the lake. The composition of the clusters while using a formal grid provides a variety of exterior spaces as voids and forms, to create singularities in the city.

The urban strategy for Tejgaon investigates the potential forms of housing for various income groups within speculative “land grab” planning. The traduction of the differents communities into an urban and architectural design was leading the project; each housing block connects people from the same cluster through gardens, while the public and commercial spaces are mixing different social classes through services.

Plinth, vertical circulations, courtyard and logia are the four parameters used for the variation of the grid. Those architectural elements help to adjust the typology of every unit according to the income and numbers of people. The formal grid developed helped to create a coherent structure while allowing great freedom in forms and space quality.