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B.Arch Studio · University of Asia Pacific · c.2015

Bissaw
Shahitto Kendro

World Literature Centre · Sylhet Folded Shell Envelope Youth + Intellectualism B.Arch Studio · UAP

Bissaw Shahitto Kendro: World Literature Centre. Sylhet — Bangladesh's tea-country city, historically cosmopolitan, intellectually restless — is given an institution for the encounter between the local and the planetary literary imagination.

The project's formal proposition is structural and spatial simultaneously: a folded shell envelope that organises programme through geometry rather than conventional floorplate logic. The fold creates compression and release, interior light wells, and a silhouette that reads as civic infrastructure from the approach. Youth and intellectualism are the target civic constituencies — the building is scaled for encounter, not ceremony.

Programme World Literature Centre · Cultural + Civic
Location Sylhet, Bangladesh
Structure Folded Shell Envelope
Themes Youth · Intellectualism · Civic Institution
Institution University of Asia Pacific
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Degree B.Arch (Architecture)
Bissaw Shahitto Kendro — exterior render
Site plan
Ground floor plan
Section through shell envelope
Elevation
Interior — reading hall
Interior — light well
Shell envelope detail
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