ARCHITECTURE

PORT FOLIO
SILMA SUBAH
CONTENT
Academic Single

01. Integrated Adaptive Healing: A Case Of

Center For Rehabilitation Of The Paralized (CRP),
Khulna

02. Exploring Verticality

Shaping Tall Building Structure as Architectural
Innovation

03. Dhaka Pavillion

Experimenting the New Spatial Concept

04.Designing Identity For Educator’ Vertical

Living

05. “ARTICULATING THE VOLUME”

Studio Apartment For A Retired Teacher
(Wheelchair Bound)

06. Transformation

Academic Collaboration

07. Riverfront Development of Khulna City

08. Adaptive Streetscape

Professional Collaboration

09. Central Mosque, BNS Haji Mohsin

10. Latif Tower

Academic Project (Single)

Term: 5-2 (B.Arch Thesis)

Project Year: 2018
Duration: 14 weeks

Integrated Adaptive Healing:

A Case Of Center For
Rehabilitation Of The
Paralyzed (CRP), Khulna
Location: Avaynagar, Akij City, Jessore-Khulna Highway,
Khulna, Bangladesh

Site: 1.7 acres

It is not common for rehabilitation facilities to

promote suitable environments for patients’ physi-
cal and mental healing. By confining physical thera-
py to a room, these spaces hardly encourage
movement, revitalize the senses, and help patients
with their recovery. The connectivity of spaces with
natural settings such as open terraces or semi-out-
door spaces, could allow physical therapy to
expand through the building and provide patients
with interactive and dynamic sessions. This thesis has
investigated the concept of designing physical
rehabilitation by inspecting theories of healing
spaces in order to acquire complete well-being.
These theories have been used in conjunction with
the gradual process of healing through mobility and
exercise in order to design a physical rehabilitation
center, based in Khulna, Bangladesh. Thus, a
motivational environment for emotional and physi-
cal healing using natural resources is an outcome of
this thesis.

B.Arch 5th year 2nd Term

 CONCEPTUALIZATION

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Hospitals or rehabilitation centers are treated as

machines aimed to cure the masses of disease
and disorders. Hospital design gives much impor-
Natural Environment tance on accommodating advanced medical
equipment rather than maintaining patients’
emotional well-being. But pleasant environments
for both patients and staff contributes to healing.

In the present situation of the physiotherapy

centers of Bangladesh, patients experience
disturbing conditions related to visual privacy and
hygiene. Most of the times, these institutions are
overloaded with patients. This congested places
creates stressful environment. In short, there is a
“Embracing Nature lack of motivational healing environment.
Build Environment Through The Notion Of Permeability”

*8.70 days *7.96 days RESEARCH QUESTION:

in hospital in hospital How can design strategies of healing environment
Emotional Physical incorporate as a therapeutic tool, actively assisting in
*3.96% neg. *1.13% neg. Health Health the process of achieving complete well-being of
nurse notes nurse notes patients with physical and mobile disabilities?
*More strong *Less strong
pain pain
medications Well-being
medications

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE:
1. To search for the indicators of healing
View through a window may influence recovery from surgery. environment both for the therapists and the
[(1984) study of patients recovering from gall bladder surgery] patients.
2. To determine aspects of well-being through physical
environment.

Healing
Environment

Requires person to Therapeu�c Tool

be more vigilent Allows mind to Interactive Circulation

(more stressful) relax
Natural Build
Environment Occupants’ Environment

Function Therapeu�c
Element
Well-being Healthcare
Facili�es

Circulation

Directed Attention Involuntary Attention Green Function

Transparent Spaces
Attention Restoration Theory by Dr. Marc Berman Schematic Plan Permeability
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 SITE ANALYSIS

1. Sub-urban area, serene, seclude

environment Jessore-Dhaka
2. Well accessibility through Jessore- Highway

Khulna Highway
Strength 3. Infrastructure facility available
Akij Jute Mills

Akij City Center

1.North- south elongated site, Akij School

heat gain from west
Jessore Palli
Bidyut Shamiti 2
Weakness
Proposed Site

Taltola Bazzar
1.Low rise development of Bhairab River
surroundings, opportunity to
adequate wind blow and view
2. Natural view of Bhairab river
Opportunity

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

1st Concept Model 2nd Concept Model Final Model

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 FLOOR PLANS

8 6 2
3
7 3
9 5
4 8 7
1
10 8 6 2 4
1 5
1. MULTIPURSE HALL 5. INDOOR GAMES
2. LIBRARY 6. CAFETERIA
3. PEDIATRIC THERAPY 7. LOUNGE
11 4. PEDIATRIC INPATIENT 8. SERVICE
12
2ND FLOOR PLAN

12 12

1. WARE SHOP 7. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

2. PHARMACY 8. PROSTHETICS & ORTHOTICS LAB
3. WAITING 9. SERVICE
4. OPD 10.STORE 5 3 2
5. PATHOLOGY 11.GAIT TRAINING
6. SPEECH & LANGUAGE 12.THERAPEUTIC GARDEN
THERAPY 3 3
4 1
GROUND FLOOR PLAN

1. MALE WARD 4. FAMILY WAITING

2. WORKSHOP 5. SERVICE
3. CABIN
4TH FLOOR PLAN

7 5 4 2

6
3
1
5 3 2

4 3 1

1. OPD 5. HAND THERAPY

2. PHYSIOTHERAPY GYM 6. PROSTHETICS & ORTHOTICS
3. NEUROLOGY UNIT 7. SERVICE 1. FEMALE WARD 4. FAMILY
4. MUSCULOSKELETAL UNIT 2. HYDRITHERAPY WAITING
5TH FLOOR PLAN 3. CABIN 5. SERVICE
1ST FLOOR PLAN

B.Arch 5th year 2nd Term

B.Arch
5th year
Service

2nd Term
Family Waiting

Physiotherapy

Indoor Game

Inpatient (Cabin)

Multipurpose Hall

Inpatient (Ward)

Out patient

Workshop

Hydrotherapy Pool
Front (East) Elevation
Section
While the current practice of physical therapy is
typically done in static environments, its applica-
tion to the semi-outdoor & outdoor spaces of a
building offers beneficial qualities to patients
and therapists. Rehabilitation facilities are begin-
ning to recognize the importance of encourag-
ing physical activity through design. In doing so,
these environments promote the positive effects
of exercise on patients’ overall health and
consequently encourage them to participate in
this active healing process.

By removing the walls surrounding physical

therapy and connecting the practice to the
hallways and terraces, patients and staff mem-
bers will participate in more invigorating sessions
as they experience the entirety of their facility
through movement.

The design of the exercise areas in various thera-

py spaces enables patients to circulate from Continuing exercise area of a therapy room to the outdoor terrace, also connected to the
one space to the next, progressively improving
their physical conditions. By placing them within main circulation
the semi-outdoor spaces, patients are able to
physically engage with both built and natural
environments through movement and receive
the beneficial exercise that physical therapy
provides.

More importantly, patients are able to engage

themselves with the rehabilitation process both
physically and emotionally within a cheerful
environment instead of getting monotonous
within walls. This is hard to achieve when physi-
cal therapy is practiced in a confined space.
Therefore, incorporating dynamic spaces within
the terraces of rehabilitation facilities will not
only promote exercise, but it will also intensify the
way patients view, interact and experience their
built environments during their recovery.

Open to sky, indoor Hydrotherapy pool

Ensuring privacy along with natural light penetration as well as natural ventilation
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 BROAD PROGRAMS ZONING
HYDROTHERAPY

FEMALE
WARD
CABIN

FAMILY WAITING WORKSHOP

MALE WARD

CABIN

INSTRUCTORS’
Gait training, FAMILY WAITING LOUNGE
including ramp, Japanese Step & Gravel Box

MEETING
ROOM WORKSHOP

LECTURE ROOM

ADMIN
PEDIATRIC UNIT
OFFICE

MULTIPURPOSE
LIBRARY HALL

KIDS’ PLAYING
ZONE
RESTAURENT

PEDIATRIC
THERAPISTS’ INPATIENT
LOUNGE

DOCTORS’
Therapeutic Garden, INDOOR
LOUNGE
dedicated for Horticulture Therapy GAMES
PHYSIOTHERAPY
HAND GYMNESIUM
THERAPY

OPD
PROSTHETICS
& ORTHOTICS

OPD
NEUROLOGY UNIT

OCCUPATIONAL PATHOLOGY
THERAPY

SPEECH &
ORTHOTICS & LANGUAGE
PROSTHETICS THERAPY
LAB HEALTH CARE
INSTITUTIONAL
WATING
Visually connected terraces SUPPORTIVE SERVICES
B.Arch 5th year 2nd Term
Outdoor terrace, attached to the Family Waiting & Outdoor terrace, attached to the Exercise area of Outdoor terrace, attached to the Male Ward
also connected to the main circulation the therapy room & also connected to the main
circulation

B.Arch 5th year 2nd Term

Academic Project (Single)

Term: 3-2
Project Year: 2016
Duration: 7 weeks

“EXPLORING VERTICALITY” CONCEPTUALIZATION

Shaping Tall Building
Structure as Architectural
Innovation
Location: DCC Market, Gulshan,
Dhaka, Bangladesh Water Lily
before blooming
Site: 111486 Square Feet
As a metaphore Abstract representation
For Form derivation
Objective & Intended Learning Outcome:

1.To understand innovative structural system

and its application with architectural design
solutions for tall buildings.
2.To Understand the building service system
respecting the complexity of tall buildings.
3.To understand and exercise building
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
codes regulations that are applied for
designing tall building.
4.To examine sustainable design strategies
and methods respecting tall building
solutions.

Design Idea:

Since the project is proposed to be sited at

a prominent location of the capital city, 1st Concept Model
Dhaka, it should be an iconic highrise build-
ing representing our country, Bangladesh.
To fulfill that purpose, the form of the build-
ing is abstractly derived from the national 2nd Concept Model
flower of the country which is Water Lily.

Final Model

B.Arch 3rd year 2nd Term

 03

01 01
02

06 07 06
04

01

08 08 Water Lily
before blooming

As a metaphore
04 For Form derivation
LEGENDS

1. BRAND SHOP
2.SUPPORTING OFFICE
3. MULTIPLEX
4. FOOD COURT
5. OFFICE SPACE
6. LIFT CORE
7. TOWER LOBBY 3RD FLOOR PLAN Structural Model
8. WATERBODY

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

01 01

05 05

06 06
06

04 01 05 05

7TH FLOOR PLAN 27TH FLOOR PLAN 52ND FLOOR PLAN

B.Arch 3rd year 2nd Term

 Level 50

Human Eye View of the Tower

Level 33

View from the Outdoor Terrace

Level 17

Level 4

GL
West Elevation Entry Approach

Section AA’

B.Arch 3rd year 2nd Term

Academic Project (Single)

Exhibition Gallery

Restaurent

Meeting Room

Entrance
Concert Area

Seminer Room
Observation Bridge
Term: 3-1
Project Year: 2016
Duration: 4 weeks

DHAKA PAVILION
Experimenting the New Spatial Concept

Location: Hatir Jheel Link Road, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Area: 95220 sft.

The objective of the project was to explore special structural system of

the contemporary architecture. Here I experimented with “Geodesic”
structure, which was first introduced to create domes. It is now being
widely used to make any irregular forms or complex structures. Section

Being located in a central attraction of the capital city, the site has its
own prominence. It is basically a small island in the city connected with
a road. As it is surrounded by lake water, the form is metaphorically
derived from fish body and tail to represent all the living species in the
water.

East Elevation

Conceptual Diagram

LEGENDS

1. SEMINER ROOM
2. MEETING ROOM
3. WASHROOM

01 02

03

Site Plan 2nd Floor Plan

B.Arch. 3rd year 1st term

Entrance Open Concert Area

B.Arch. 3rd year 1st term

Academic Project (Single) CONCEPTUALIZATION
Term: 5-2
Project Year: 2018
Duration: 14 weeks

12pm

Designing Identity for 3pm

Educators’ Vertical LIving Charles Correa, Housing & Urbanisation (1999)

9am

Schematically, pyramidal interior spaces closes off

the sky and minimize the heat input. Since it is
Location: Haji Muhammad Danesh Science And mainly to be used during the hot summer
Technology University afternoons, it is called the Summer Section. 6pm
Dinajpur, Bangladesh. Conversely, a reverse pyramid, opening up to the
sky, is the Winter Section- usable in the cold
Site: 51653 Square Feet seasons, and on summer evenings.

Owing primarily to a growing scarcity of land

and subsequent price hike, vertical apart-
ments became as the most ubiquitous mode
of contemporary living. Even academic cam-
puses are now opting for vertical solutions to
fulfilling their spatial requirements. ISSUE OBJECTIVE CONCEPT INDICATOR VARIABLES
UNIQUE CLIMATE TO TAKE THE • CONTROLLED • SEMIOUTDOOR
Despite many of the university campuses Conceptual Section •Less humidity MAXIMUM OPENNESS SPACES
being located in close vicinity of historical- •Very cold in winter BENEFITS OF • MIMIMUM • ORIENTATION OF
ly-culturally-climatically-architecturally signifi- •Very hot in summer CLIMATE SHADE BUILDING
UNITATION • OPENING
cant sites of Bangladesh and sited on loca- THROUGH PATTERN
tions with ample site forces, most fail to Winter Summer CULTURAL AND TO PROMOTE CELEBRATING • PERMIABILITY • VISUAL
respond to these forces in terms of their Section Section POLITICAL SOCIAL CLIMATE • RECREATIONAL CONNECTION
For Summer SUBGROUPINGS GATHERING AND USE • WALKWAY,
spatial organization, grouping of activates, For Winter
INSPITE OF SOCIAL BREAK • GATHERING SHADED PLAZA
morning & morning & Summer
orientation, formal expression and Summer Evening Afternoon
BONDING CLUSTERING SPACE
image-making, in their representation of
variety and legibility.
In consideration of these problem, the objec-
tive of this project was to design apartment
Solar Panels
for teachers of universities responding to
these problems and must recognize the Multipurpose Hall
necessary components of architectural
identity for each of the given campus sites. I Indoor Games

was given a proposed site of Haji Muhammad Library

Danesh Science And Technology University in
Dinajpur, Bangladesh. Medical Facilities

Child Care
`
Supershop

Existing Master Plan SECTION

B.Arch 5th year 1st Term

 FLOOR PLANS UNIT DETAILS

A TYPE: 1000 SFT.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN B TYPE: 1500 SFT.

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

D TYPE: 700 SFT.

C TYPE: 1200 SFT.

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

FIFTH FLOOR PLAN (TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN) PHYSICAL MODEL

B.Arch 5th year 1st Term

Summer Section (For Summer morning & Summer Afternoon, More Shaded zone) Winter Section (For Winter morning & Summer Evening, Less Shaded zone) Visual connection with the balcony

B.Arch 5th year 1st Term

Academic Project (Single)

Term: 2-1
Project Year: 2015
Duration: 5 weeks

“ARTICULATING THE VOLUME”

Studio Apartment For A Retired
Teacher (Wheelchair Bound)

The main objective of this project was to learn basic

agronomics. The project was to design a studio apart-
ment for person of a particular profession. I designed it for
a retired teacher who has become wheelchair bound.
The idea was to create a free flowing space to ensure
free movement. In order to achieve that, the seating in
the living room was arranged flexibly with the book selves
so that it can be arranged when needed. As a scholar
person, the teacher would have a good collection of
books, which he might want to showcase and share with
visitors. The living area would serve this purpose of sharing
without interrupting his free movement.

Top view of the private zone Living Space

Bookshelves with seating arrangements in the Living space

Kitchen Sleeping zone

B.Arch. 2nd year 1st term

Academic Project (Single)

Term: 1-2
Project Year: 2014
Duration: 1 week

Transformation

The project was to pick an object and

gradually transform it into a whole another
object. The transformation would be
abstract and with suitable phasing.

I picked a lock as my primary object and

transform it into a headphone through
three abstract phases.

Physical Model
B.Arch. 1st year 2nd term
Academic Project (Team of 6)

Term: 4-1
Project Year: 2017
Duration: 10 weeks

Existing

Riverfront Development
of Khulna City
Proposed
Khulna City developed gradually alongside Boro Bazar
a river. As it spread, the focus has shifted to
the city center from the river bank. Unfortu-
nately the riverside is now considered under
developed and treated as a backyard,
sometimes even used as a drainage system
Existing
and garbage dump yard. The studio objec-
tive was to revitalize the riverbank and bring
back its liveliness. But only planning cannot
do the job until its maintenance is guaran-
teed. One possible way to make this
happen is by developing the river bank with
a sense of belongingness to the city dwell-
ers. Here we implemented the concept of
Newsprint Mill Proposed
“place making” with a bottom up
approach. We surveyed the existing condi-
tion and then divided the whole city into
chunks. After that design solutions were
given phase by phase. Each group member
was assigned to give design solutions for two
selected chunks. My role was to present the
existing condition and collaborate the site
Existing
survey and give design solutions for Khulna
Newsprint Mill and Rupsha Ghat. Heare I
introduced recreational facilities in accor-
dance with the needs of the community to
recreate the riverfront vive of the city. I was
involved in all the works presented.
Rupsha ghat Proposed

B.Arch 4th year 1st term

B.Arch 4th year 1st term
Rupsha ghat Rupsha ghat Newsprint Mill

B.Arch 4th year 1st term

Academic Project (Team of 2)

Term: 4-2
Project Year: 2017
Duration: 2 weeks

Adaptive Streetscape
Location: BNS Titumir (Bangladesh Naval Base,
Khulna)

B.Arch 4th year Landscape

Jogging Track Seating arrangements Lakeside recreational facilities

B.Arch 4th year Landscape

Professional Project (Team of 4)

Office: MRA Architects

Project Year: 2019
Duration: 8 weeks

Latif Tower
16 Storied Commercial
Cum Residential Building
Location: Akur Takur Para, Tangail Sadar,
Tangail, Bangladesh

Site: 26280 Square Feet

Background: It is a 16 storied mixed usued

building located in the commercial zone
of Tangail district. The 1st 5 floors are
dedicated for shopping center and office
spaces. Rest of the floors are designed as
residential complex.

Role: 3D Modeling & Producing 3D Views

Used Software:
3D Modeling: SketchUp,
3D Rendering: V-ray & Adobe Photoshop

Professional Collaboration Mixed Use

Professional Project (Team of 2)

Office: MRA Architects

Project Year: 2020
Duration: 6 weeks

Central Mosque of
BNS Haji Mohsin

Location: BNS Haji Mohsin, Dhaka Canttonment,

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Site: 1511 Square Meters

Background: This is a two storied mosque

including separate prayer spaces both for
male and female. The design is highly
influenced by islamic architecture.

Role: Site survey, Conceptualization,

Design development, 3D Visualization,
Construction drawing
I produced all the works presented under
the supervision of the principal Architect,
Md. Mamunur Rahman

Used Software:
2D Drawings: AutoCad,
3D Modeling: SketchUp,
3D Rendering: V-ray, Adobe Photoshop

Professional Collaboration Mosque

 FIRST FLOOR PLAN

EAST ELEVATION NORTH ELEVATION

Professional Collaboration Mosque
 Dome Plan Dome Topview

Plan

Dome Window Details

Elevation

Spot Section of the Dome Dome Elevation South Elevation Screen Details
Professional Collaboration Mosque
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