Project Description

Situated close to the PTI node, which is the academic center of Khulna, our chosen negative space is an abandoned waste dump that contaminates the environment and daily living of thousands of students and residents. Our intervention transforms this poisonous chasm into a living vibrant public space centered around its inert water body. It turns into a healing place, a place where the city can calm down, take a breath, and restore its connection. The space has been developed in a child and community-based way with interactive landscapes, playful topographies, and an outdoor expression stage. It turns into a living classroom in which young minds connect to nature, empathy and imaginative thinking. 

The design is made accessible with open gradients and free circulation, so that it is passable to people in all age brackets and physical capabilities without hierarchy or limitations. It is more than a park and it is a Civic Pause: a spatial break in the hectic daily narrative of the city. In this case sitting is deliberate, observing water or listening to birds is now a meditation, and the drifting thoughts are allowed to drift. It both promotes solitude and serendipity, providing clarity in between the habits of life. The revival of this ignored nest of Khulna transforms the area of urban space into a collective beat of dignity, recovery, and silent happiness- a pulse point in urban life.