Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban

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Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban
The Parliament building of the Government of Bangladesh

The Parliament building of the Government of Bangladesh

Data
place Dhaka
builder Louis I. Kahn
Construction year 1963–1983 (with interruptions)
height 155 m
Floor space 800,000 m²
Coordinates 23 ° 45 '45 "  N , 90 ° 22' 42.6"  O Coordinates: 23 ° 45 '45 "  N , 90 ° 22' 42.6"  O
particularities
Seat of the Government of Bangladesh

Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban ( Bengali : জাতীয় সংসদ ভবন , Jātīẏa Saṃsad Bhaban , House of the National Assembly ) is the building of the National Parliament of Bangladesh in the state capital Dhaka .

The building was designed by the American architect Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974) in close collaboration with the prestressed concrete expert and structural engineer August E. Komendant . It is considered to be one of the largest parliament buildings in the world.

prehistory

In 1959, the Pakistani government decided to build two new capitals in East and West Pakistan. East Pakistani Sher-e-Bangla Nagar lay on flat land near Dhaka. In 1962 the American architect Louis I. Kahn received an initial inquiry from the East Pakistani government regarding a design for the new parliament building. In addition to parliament, the contract also included the design of the entire area, which, in addition to other public and administrative buildings, was to contain residential complexes and infrastructural facilities.

Kahn's first drafts date from 1963, construction work began the following year and the foundation of the parliament building was laid in 1965. The roof of the building was originally planned as a pyramid. It was only after negotiations with the new government and the revision of the master plan that Kahn developed the construction of the flat roof vault in 1971, the year of Bangladesh's independence.

The construction of the parliament building in Dhaka took a total of 20 years. The civil war over the declaration of independence of the state of Bangladesh, the redesign of the original design and finally the death of the architect Louis I. Kahn in 1974 led to the long construction period. The result is an impressive building complex that was supposed to reflect the hopeful spirit of a young democratic republic.

architecture

Sangsad Bhaban 2015

Kahn's design is characterized by a new architectural language that combines western and eastern traditions, shapes and materials. For example, due to the great importance of the element of water in the Bengali tradition, he placed the building complex of the parliament next to an artificially created lake. Extensive plazas and stairs as well as lawns isolate the citadel-like monument from its surroundings. The walls of the archaic building are made of gray-brown concrete; white marble emphasizes the wide horizontal and vertical joints. Various geometric individual bodies are laid out around the central assembly room and large, geometric openings in different shapes are cut into the walls, which emphasize the contrast between light and shadow and make natural light usable as lighting. On the east side of the building complex there are several cylindrical buildings which, among other things, serve as residential complexes. Although Kahn's buildings are characterized by strict geometric shapes and structured central axes and diagonals, they are shaped by the basic idea of ​​creating places where people feel comfortable and which meet their needs; they invite communication and community. The parliament building in Dhaka also reflects the idea of ​​the transcendent character of the assembly, which determined the hopeful founding years of the independent state of Bangladesh.

Picture gallery

  • National Assembly of Bangladesh (10) .jpg
  • Sangshad 3.jpg
  • National Assembly of Bangladesh, Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban, 2008, 5.JPG
  • Sangshad Assembly Hall.jpg

literature

  • Jonathan Lee: 50 great adventures. Special places and the people who created them . Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2006. ISBN 3-7913-3530-8

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