A Ware House Project with a Big Balcony | SAOCL | Chittagong | Bangladesh

CLIENT : Standard Asiatic Oil Company Ltd.

SITE : Airport Road, Guptakhal, Patenga,, Chittagong

SITE AREA : 10,000 sft (approx.)

BUILT AREA : 1525sft

STATUS : UNDER CONSTRUCTION (2017-)

Design Process

Phase 1

The brief by the client is quite straight. They want the ware house looks something different than a typical one. They provided me their plans and other related drawings.

Basically i have to work on the elevations of the front two sides.

As the initial concept i came across with the thought that i will hide the typical roofing outlook which are done by profile sheets. For that i will go for ACP panels to bring the look stand out from the crowd.

I used come brick facades to make the structure be a part of the complex as there are some other structures of brick facades as well.

I want to make the name more visible by changing the acp panel color into red.

As there are two mezzanine floors for the worker, i extended the floor slabs into 5 feet so that it can be used as a balcony as well as it bring the change in the façade.

Phase 2

According to the change by the authority, i have done the revised design.

As the site is located beside the sea, there is a huge force of wind. The acp panels i am using which are anchored by frames cant be resisted against the wind with that much height(almost 20') . So that i have to minimize the height into 10-11'.

Fig: Technical Drawings

Fig: Under Construction site

Fig: Final Image

Fig: View from the main road