Name: Mahbuba Siddiqa Moumi

ID: 2017000600007

Amber Denim Loom Shed

Amber Denim Loom Shed
Country of origin: Bangladesh
Location: Gazipur, Bangladesh
Client: Showkat Aziz Russell
Architect: Jubair Hasan
Design: 2013
Size: 283,280 m²
Completed: 2015 Top view

The Amber Denim Loom Shed is a project that was initiated by Amber Denim Ltd.
The structure is located inside the Amber Denim factory compound, in the
Gazipur area of Bangladesh.
What started as a project to welcome guests and buyers, evolved into an activity
space for workers and visitors of the factory, improving their welfare.

The design, by Jubair Hasan of Archeground, takes its inspiration from a

traditional Bengali pavilion – a simple post-and-beam structure with pitched roof
that can be found in villages all around Bangladesh. Working with the factory
workers, the architect led the process of building the shed/pavilion using three
main materials: unused gas pipes that were already owned by the client as the
main structure of the building; local bamboo for walls; and custom-made
concrete roof tiles.
 Jubair Hasan wanted to create a building that reflects the design of a
traditional Bangladeshi pavilion – a semi-open, simple post-and-beam
structure with pitched roof, that can be found in many villages in the country.
He felt compelled to do this because nowadays there are fewer and fewer
people living in the villages, and the construction techniques to make these
pavilions are slowly disappearing.

The loom shed was built on a vacant land in the back end of the
factory’s compound.

It is a rectangular single story building, spanning north to south, with the longer facade
of the building facing to east and west, inspired from the traditional Bangali pavilion.
Design Concept

Evolution of design concepts The site that was initially presented to the
architect for this building was actually around 10,000 square meters. It is an
empty plot located in the middle of the factory compound, next to another
facility and the workers’ compound.

The architect decided to make a setback from the nearest logistical circulation
route, creating an open space that can be used for outdoor activities.

Reacting to the initially stated requirements, the architect placed the two main
areas of this building in its two ends: the visitors’ lounge closer to the end
where most visitors will enter the building, and the more noisy looming
machines area in the farther part, closer to the workers’ compound, where
fewer visitors would enter first.

Only toilets and storage areas have solid walls. Partitions for other areas, are using
bamboo walls.
Drawings

Site plan

Ground floor plan

Section
A waterbody was introduced to enhances the beauty of the site and also absorb the dust
through water, as loom produce dust much.
Structure, Materials
Structure, materials, technology The main structure of the building is post-and-
beam, with pitched roof, employing 10-inch gas pipes that the company had
previously bought but had not used.Since the length of a single pipe is 40 feet
(12 metres), the architect thought there was enough length and strength for
this pipe to serve as the building’s main structure.

10” unused gas pipe that the company had previously bought,
but did not used, have been reused as main building
structure.
The roof covering is of custom-made concrete roof tiles, produced on site.
Fewer and fewer buildings in Bangladesh use roof tiles, and the technique of
making them is slowly disappearing. Jubair Hasan saw it as part of his
obligation to maintain the presence of this material, which is why he used roof
tiles for this building.

The roof covering is using custom concrete

roof tiles made on-site.
Walls are made of local bamboo that is dipped in a chemical solution and then
treated with oil (chorsh polish) and bobhakali (a type of local sand) to give a
dark and coarse finish.

The floor is in concrete with a cement finish. Even though the inspiration of the
structure comes from traditional Bengali pavilions, the construction technology
used in this building is a relatively modern welded steel structure,
concrete/cement-based materials, and bamboo with chemical treatment.
Buyers are driven in the loom shed where they can see the quality of the products and how
the factory is operated.

Workshops about safety, efficiency and other aspects of work are organised in
the shed.
The main structure of this building is post-beam structure, with pitched roof.

Bamboos used for the facades protected well from the rain and water, by the roof’s
overhang
The position of the building has created an open-field that is often being used by
factory workers for recreational activities or other factory gathering events.
Beijing Fashion Factory B Courtyard
 Beijing Fashion Factory B Courtyard
Country of origin: China
Location: Beijing
Client: Valley Elite Group
Architect: Antistatic Architecture
Design: 2018
Size: 12000 m²
Completed:2020

Inspired by the textiles and patterns of the fashion industry, the Beijing Fashion-
Factory rejuvenates a former industrial site into a diverse collection of creative
workspaces. The interwoven nature of the fabric is leveraged as a design driver
defining the various interior and exterior spaces, their connectivity, and separation.
The design utilizes and borrows several techniques from the fashion designer’s
palette, including draping, stitching, printing, and weaving.
Taking advantage of the existing industrial infrastructure, many of the remnant
artifacts on site were used within the generous outdoor courtyard spaces creating
collective gathering through recycling and reuse.

Additionally, the interior renovations of

the existing buildings took into account
the historic impact of pandemics like
COVID, orienting each unit’s interior to a
private individual entry space. With the
spacious courtyards presenting shared
space for collective gathering in the age of
social distancing, the elimination of any
interior collective spaces reduces the
potential spread of viral contagions
between offices and studios. Particular
care was taken to ensure that, while small
interior groups may form within offices
and studios, HVAC systems are exclusive
to those spaces, preventing cross-
contamination between companies.
Site plan
 Elevation detail

Concept diagram showing the connectivity

between façade and landscape
The Fashion Factory B courtyard has the most “fashionably experimental”
moment and design. This courtyard, in its given context already established and
feeling like a distinct and unique environment from the expansive entry courtyard.
Playing with the idea of the stitch at the macroscale as an architectural language,
space is interconnected through a large-scale graphic of the microscale stitch.

The simple deployment of the line and arch

creates continuous linearity throughout the
space, sewing together the façade of one
building, through the plane of the courtyard
into the façade of the other building. These
simple and repetitive moves develop a
strong rhythm and gesture to space,
allowing the eye to trace from landscape to
façade and back, while also leveraging a
simple kit of parts for ease of fabrication and
construction.

The interior spaces of the

Beijing Fashion-Factory offer a
variety of options for private
workspace as well as
reprogrammable public
facilities. The interior spaces
were realigned and
transformed to orient their
primary entries to the central
outdoor courtyard space.

In-between space to office

units from outdoor
The use of the industrial expanded steel mesh grants a feeling of softness to the
otherwise hard geometries of the classic architectural formations.

Façade metal mesh day effect

Reading differently between night and day, the mesh reads as a solid and
continuous form during the day, creating regional definitions and subdivisions,
while at night, the backlit mesh glows as a continuously stitched line through the
courtyard and upwards towards the sky.

This reinvention of the space as a twisting linear stitch further enhances the
space as one for exhibition in particular the linear fashion show. The arch and
turn of the geometry further reference the turn of the fashion model at the end
of the runway, in this way, the building becomes a definer and reference to the
behaviors within and without.
The private office and studio space are
adaptable to user groups of varying sizes
and functions, with large height spaces
the areas are able to be split into two or
three stories, as well as maintaining strong
inspiring double-height areas within a
single space.

Also, the units are given unique and

individual access, providing the opportunity
to not only present one’s company logo and
graphics on the respective façade but
further preventing interior intermingling of
visitors and users on the site in response to
the recent pandemics of COVID.

Entry pathway from A courtyard

to B courtyard
In-between space to office
units from indoor

This utilization of the outdoor space as

primary collective circulation creates a
healthier and safer workspace. Each unit
has its own HVAC system further isolating
individuals within their interior
workspaces while connecting people
through the generous and shared outdoor
courtyard space.
The public spaces of the site offer further amenities to both on-site users as
well as outside parties. Featuring theater and screening spaces, auditorium,
fashion runways, art galleries, and music venues, the site is adaptable to both
large- and small-scale events.

courtyard B night fashion catwalk

These programs occupy a wide range of spaces through the site. Beijig
Fashion-Factory is entirely capable of handling a wide range of public
programs and events, this will not only serve to enhance the experience and
profile of those working on the site but additionally bring outside parties to
space along with the general public invited to attend.

courtyard B landscape and

installation

In this way, the park operates

as an attraction point within
the city, not simply a
destination for work, but
rather a cultural destination
expressive of the immense
creativity and production of
the city.
Thank You!