Project Description

RE-NEST: Echoes of a Forgotten Sky

“When the birds left, the city fell silent — and so did we.”

A healing space that is not only for us, but for those we have pushed to the margins — the birds. By bringing them back through design, we reawaken something forgotten within ourselves: a quiet joy, a seasonal rhythm, a sense of belonging to the larger web of life.

There was a time when people woke to the call of the doel, sensed the changing season through the kokil, or believed the kutum pakhi signaled an arriving guest. Birds were woven into the fabric of daily life. Now, those sounds — and their meanings — are gone.

Among them was a fictional bird we imagined during the design process — Moynakoli— a bird that once shared rooftops, branches, and morning skies with us. But as cities hardened, and nature disappeared, its familiar world crumbled. With no place left to call home, it simply faded from view — like so many real species now vanishing from Bangladesh.

 “RE-NEST” envisions a network of modular healing spaces that restore this bond — where humans can pause, breathe, and reflect, while birds find refuge, food, and nesting. 

This project reimagines healing not as a human-centered healing, but as a shared necessity — for the birds who lost their homes, and the humans who lost their rhythm. This is not merely ecological repair — it is a spatial apology. A chance to build back what Moynakoli once knew: a home shared between wings and walls.