We have successfully completed Tensile conical in Radisson Bay View Hotel, Chittagong. As a project consultant it was a great honor for me to work with eminent Ar.Mustapha Khalid Palash in this project. Paradigm was the contractor. ALM steel worked as a steel supplier and vendor. Fabric confectioning is done by a Malaysian company Brilliant Shield. Please find attached images of the project.
TensoGroup
Tensogroup is my blog where i have shared my views, opinions, experiences while studying membrane structures in Europe. TensoGroup will be focused on tensile membrane structures and sails.
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Small Tensile
I have designed and installed a small Tensile Membrane on our balcony at our apartment in Bashundhara R/A, Dhaka. Though its a small project around 5ft by 6ft. It is my first Tensile in Dhaka. It was a good experience and exercise for me. One of the major mistakes here is the use of rubber cord at the edges of the fabric. I could not able apply proper tension on the fabric because of the rubber cord, as it extends when tension is applied. Though there are many mistakes, it feels good to see my tensile.
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Friday, August 23, 2013
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Green Architectural Membrane
Kenaf plant |
A green
Architectural membrane, based on Kenaf bast fiber has been developed by Taiyo KogyoCrop. Kenaf is a natural fiber and have
similar characters as Jute. KenafineTM, developed by Taiyo Kogyo
Crop., is made by weaving Kenaf fiber with polyester fiber. This bas fabric is
coated on top with photocatalyst TiO2
and at bottom coated with antibacterial agent of silver. This
environment friendly green membrane can be recycled to make paper product1.
Thus it is more carbon-neutral than 100% polyester based fabrics. Test result
of Kenafine is given below.
Test result of Kenafine |
Structure of Kenafine. |
Reference:
1. New material research on kenaf fiber fabric, http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/1112_np9_material_research.html
Friday, June 15, 2012
Europe Tour Part 03
After visiting Paris, I headed to Amsterdam next week. It was my dream to visit Amsterdam. I reached Amsterdam on 28th April 2012 night. Though It was cold and windy, I got out with my camera to take some amazing night shots of Amsterdam.
Amsterdam is the largest city and capital of Netherlands. The name is derived from the dam on the river Amstel. With my dutch friends John and Aukje, we visited different parts of the city and buildings. We made a boat trip through the canals of Amsterdam. I ate totally raw haring fish in pure dutch style. We also visited a small craft museum, where we saw traditional wooden shoes, cheese, clothing etc.
We visited Nemo, designed by Architect Renzo Piano. It is a kids science museum, which looks like a ship. Beneath it there is a road tunnel connecting other part of the city. We also visited Whale a residential building resembling whale in shape. It
is designed by Architekten Cie. It was quite a impressive building in terms of
massing, fenestration.
Amsterdam at Night |
Me with my friend John and Aukje |
Traditional wooden shoes |
Nemo by Architect Renzo Piano |
The whale by de Architekten Cie |
Inner Court of the whale |
The traditional pitched roof brick houses were
impressive. There was a hoisting steel
plate at the top of each house to lift goods to different floors through large
windows. There are numerous famous buildings all around Amsterdam.
Unfortunately I couldn’t able to visit all of them in time. I wish I could
spend few weeks in Amsterdam to explore all the places.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Europe Tour Part 02
I made a trip to Paris on 21st April 2012 from Antwerp, Belgium. It was great as well as romantic as I saw in the movie"Midnight in Paris". In my opinion it is the best among other european cities I visited. The calm Seine river, trees, walkways, parks, huge boulevards, tourists, beautiful modern, post modern, classical buildings made Paris an unforgettable city.
I went to magnificent Louvre Museum where I saw Monalisa, the Captive by Michelangelo, apartments of Napoleon and numerous paintings, sculptures. Glass pyramid lobby of Louvre museum designed by Architect I M Pei was impressive. The collection of paintings and sculptures of Musee de Orsay was also impressive, where I saw the paintings of impressionist artists like Van Gogh, Claudia Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet etc. I also visited world famous cathedral Notre Dame. As the name of my college was also same in Bangladesh, it was a great opportunity for me to visit that cathedral. It was the finest example of French Gothic Architecture in medieval time. It was highly decorated with sculptures of christian beliefs and with most delicate stained glass.
I visited some of the famous modern architecture in Paris like, Georges Pompidou Center, Arab Institute, La Defense. Transparency of Pompidou Center was amazing, where anyone could see the structure of the building, mechanical facilities as well as circulation of the building. Arab Institute was famous for its facade which was constructed with series of shutters. These shutters could open or
close automatically depending on solar radiation penetration through the facade. But unfortunately these were not working anymore. La Defense was a business district where you could see modern skyscrapers. Grand Arch of La Defense was outstanding. It was a complete frame which was axially connected with city center. It was designed by Johann Otto Von spreckelsen.
It was worthless to visit Paris without seeing Eiffel Tower. Eiffel Tower was a master piece of delicate steel work. It was huge in height as well as beautiful. It was breath taking to see Eiffel Tower from distance against city fabric.
Notre Dame Cathedral from the bank of river Seine. |
Glass Pyramid lobby of Louvre Museum |
Georges Pompidou Center |
Me infront of Arab Institute |
It was worthless to visit Paris without seeing Eiffel Tower. Eiffel Tower was a master piece of delicate steel work. It was huge in height as well as beautiful. It was breath taking to see Eiffel Tower from distance against city fabric.
Grand Arch La Defense, Paris |
Eiffel Tower, Paris |
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Europe Tour Part 01
It was a great Europe tour.I traveled so many places. I visited four countries Germany, Belgium, France and Netherlands. I started my journey from 6th March 2012 in Dessau, Germany where I attended my 3rd semester in IMS. Then me with some of my Indian friends made a trip to Munich on 18th March, it was a "membrane tour". We stayed there for three days and visited Olympic stadium, Allianz Arena, BMW Welt. We also visited a material exhibition at Messesee, Munich.
Then on 21st March I traveled to Antwerp, Belgium for my Internship training in Nomad Concept. Antwerp was a great city. There were so many things to see, luxury shops and nice pedestrian walkways in Meir street, great plaza of Grote Markt, 572m long pedestrian tunnel under the river Scheldt, greatly sculptured Antwerp Cathedral with a huge tower which could be seen from all parts of the city were some of the jewels of the city.Antwerp at night, Meir Street. |
There were some architectural jewels in Antwerp like MAS museum of Antwerp which was a great modern museum, Antwerp Courthouse by Architect Sir Richard Rogers was another great architecture to visit and the Centraal Rail Station of Antwerp was truly magnificent with its huge vaulted lobby. It was a nineteenth century architecture but a new extension with modern design was built which was also very impressive and spectacular.
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