Shona Van

Brief

Shona Van is a two-unit-per-floor apartment building in Banani, one of Dhaka’s most closely watched residential addresses, on a 12.5 decimal plot. The brief was simple to state and hard to deliver: flats that feel like houses, on a street where every neighbour is a benchmark.

Approach

The ground floor is given entirely to arrival and services — parking, guard, driver’s room, generator and substation — so the residential floors start clean. Each typical floor carries two 3-bedroom units with their own family living and drawing rooms, planned so no bedroom shares a wall with a neighbour’s living space.

Outcome

Designed, engineered and built by our own team, with the client dealing with one office from the first sketch to handover. The project sits in the 10 crore + band and remains one of the firm’s reference buildings in the capital.