Arcadia Education Project built a school that will sustain the flood and advertise weather. For this, a team of the architect were engineered who’s sustainable design won the Aga Khan award. This prestigious award presented to us after the Aga Khan committee inspected and found that we have put forward a plan and constructed a school environment friendly and sustainable. Website: https://arcadiaprojects.org/

1. Bangladesh Project Among Aga Khan
Award for Architecture 2019
Saif Ul Haque, the architect of Arcadia Education Project in South Kanarchor,
wins the award from Bangladesh
A project by Bangladesh has been declared as one of the winners of the 2019
Aga Khan Award for Architecture in Kazan, Russia.
Saif Ul Haque, the architect of Arcadia Education Project in South Kanarchor,
won the award from Bangladesh on Thursday.
The project occupies space for a preschool, a hostel, a nursery, and a
vocational training center that takes a novel approach to a riverine site often
flooded for five months every year.

2. The architect-designed the alternative of an amphibious structure that could
sit on the floor or float on the water – depending on seasonal conditions–
rather than disrupting the ecosystem to produce a construction mound.
However, other projects from countries like Bahrain, Palestine, Russia, Senegal,
and UAE were also amongst the winners.
The prize money of $1 million will be shared among the winners.
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture’s mandate is distinct from many other
architecture prizes as it not only rewards architects but also identifies
municipalities, builders, clients, master craftsmen and engineers who have
played important roles in the realization of a project.

3. The Award was created in 1977 by The Aga Khan to define and encourage
ideas of construction that effectively address the requirements and ambitions
of societies where Muslims have a significant presence.
This year, the award-giving ceremony will be held in Kazan, Russia in Kremlin
which is a World Heritage Site itself.

4. The nine members of the 2019 master jury were: Anthony Kwamé Appiah, an
Anglo-Ghanaian American philosopher, Meisa Batayneh, founder and principal
architect of miasma architects & engineers, Sir David Chipperfield, whose
practice has built over 100 projects for both the private and public sectors,
Elizabeth Diller, a founding partner of a design studio whose practice spans
the fields of architecture, multi-media performance and digital media, Edhem
Eldem, a Professor of History at Boğaziçi University (Istanbul) and the Collège
de France. Mona Fawaz, a Professor in Urban Studies and Planning at the
Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy at the American University of Beirut,
Kareem Ibrahim, an Egyptian architect and urban researcher who has worked
extensively in Historic Cairo, Ali M. Malkawi, a professor at Harvard University’s
Graduate School of Design and a founding director of the Harvard Center for
Green Buildings and Cities, and Nandita Correa Mehrotra, an architect working
in India and the United States, also the Director of the Charles Correa
Foundation were amongst the jury.
Website: https://arcadiaprojects.org/