Friendship center bangladesh case study

The Friendship Centre is divided into two sections, the outer Ka block for the offices, library and training classrooms and the inner Kha block for the residential section. At a time, 80 people can be trained here in four separate classrooms. Simplicity is the intent, monastic is the feel.

A rural training centre inspired by one of the country’s oldest urban archaeological sites. The Centre was created to train staff of an NGO working with people inhabiting nearby chars, or riverine islands. Offices, a library, meeting rooms, and prayer and tea rooms are included in pavilion-like buildings surrounded by courts and pools.

To prevent flooding, the Friendship Centre is built directly on the low land and the entire site is protected with an embankment which could not be built and maintained for much less - Friendship Centre, Gaibandha, Bangladesh.

Located in rural Gaibandha where agriculture is predominant, the project's roofscape merges with its environment - Friendship Centre, Gaibandha, Bangladesh. The design relies on natural ventilation and cooling, being facilitated by courtyards and pools and the earth covering on roofs - Friendship Centre, Gaibandha, Bangladesh.