Saltbox - Design & Crafts studio

Project Title: Bengal Museum For Arts & Crafts
Project by: Architect Nahas Khalil
Model Display: Will be preserved at Bengal Institute for Architecture, Dhaka
Model Material: White-pine wood, Balsa wood, Ply-board, Acrylic-board etc,
Model making Duration: 4 days

Project Title: Workers Dormitory Complex, KEPZ, Chittagong
Project by: JA Architects
Model Display: Will be Preserved and displayed at KEPZ head office, Chittagong
Model Material: Ply-board, Frosted acrylic-board etc
Duration: (±)45 days

Welcome to Baro Sardar Bari, Bangladesh’s foremost restoration project | Bombaywalla Welcome to Baro Sardar Bari, Bangladesh’s foremost restoration project 28 August, 2017 Leave a reply The verandah of the back courtyard was built in the early 20th century, when the residential complex was renovated by a Hindu merchant. The buildings that make up the courtyard, however, were built i...

Saiqa Iqbal Meghna, Suvro Sovon Chowdhury, মারেফুল ইসলাম, Rahat Ibna Hasan

Project Title: Reversed Oculus | Shomaj Biggyan Chottor, Dhaka University.
Project by: SthaNiK Consultants,
Model Display: Will be presented at S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, Switzerland.
Model Material: White-pine wood, Balsa wood, Ply-board, Acrylic-board, Wire-mesh etc,
Model making Duration: (±)14days

Project Title: Reversed Oculus | Shomaj Biggyan Chottor, Dhaka University.
Project by: SthaNiK Consultants,
Model Display: Will be presented at S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, Switzerland.
Model Material: White-pine wood, Balsa wood, Ply-board, Acrylic-board, Wire-mesh etc,
Model making Duration: (±)14days

And here are the final outcome of the workshop arranged by Aalliance francaise de dhaka, Goethe-Institute Bangladesh in association with JuteLab and Studio Katra!

In the frame of a Franco-German cultural project with Alliance Française de Dhaka and Goethe-Institut Bangladesh, the Jute Lab, Studio Katra, and the 8 winners of the design contest got to reimagine two symbolic elements of the Bengali culture : the Rickshaw and the Khatiya modular table / bed. The two pieces of furniture were first modeled in 3D, then prototyped by the Jute Lab team out of jute fiber composite. Here finally the two finished pieces are revealed :) We are very proud to see this project coming to a beautiful end and great finish. So once again, a huge thank you to all of the people involved in it !

Here is an awesome journey of two furniture piece....from scratch to reality!

In the frame of a Franco-German cultural project with Alliance Française de Dhaka and Goethe-Institut Bangladesh, the Jute Lab got to prototype the two pieces of furniture that resulted from the design workshop held with eight of a design contest participants, along with Studio Katra in Dhaka in November 2016. In order to make the Rick Chair and Khatiya Table out of jute fiber composite material, they got to build up male moulds, cut jute fiber reinforcement fabric preform layers, infuse the jute fiber fabric layers with polyester resin, cut the furniture pieces out and finish their external surface by sanding, gel-coating and varnishing them. It took almost 5 months to the Jute Lab team to be done with all this prototyping work back in Concarneau, France, at the Kaïros company workshop, and with the good help of Bilou, Ronan, David, Ludo, Erwan, Manu, Tom, Stan, Ronan, Jules, Sibylle, and the rest of Kaïros, Safran and Explore people.
A huge thank you to all of them !
And a special thanks to Antoine from Studio Katra.

Project Title: Conservation of Baro Sardar Bari,
Display: Preserved at Sonagaon Museum,
Model Material: Clear-acrylic board,
Model making Duration: (±)90days

These are some of our Brand-Identity Design works! Though, some of them are just Brand-Identity Design competition entries....