Reincarnation

Project Name: Shipyard Mosque
Location: South Sonaichari, Sh*talpur, Sitakund, Chattogram.
Year of Completion : 2025
Principal Architect : Kh Abdal Hossain
Design Team: Taniza Arfa thina, Nurur Raiyana.
Photography by Prantography

Reincarnation

A mosque, fundamentally, is a place of prostration—a space for surrender, contemplation, purification, and spiritual connection with The Creator. Located within a ship-breaking yard, the KSRM Mosque explores the relationship between fragmentation, transformation, and spirituality. The architecture draws from the surrounding shipyard landscape, where massive vessels are dismantled into fragments and reassembled into new forms. This process becomes a conceptual generator for the mosque, expressed through a composition of fragmented volumes, brick jaali, solid walls, and carefully framed openings.
The design seeks to create a sacred environment for reflection, purification, and spiritual connection, moving beyond conventional monumental mosque forms. At the heart of the design is an Articulation of the dual nature of human existence, expressed through the interplay of light and darkness, solidity and permeability, enclosure and openness. Solid walls establish moments of introspection and protection, while perforated brick jaali introduces filtered light, air, and visual depth. The contrast between these elements creates a constantly shifting spatial experience, allowing the character of the mosque to change throughout the day.
Natural light and cross-ventilation are integral to the spatial experience. Filtered through the jaali and glazing, daylight creates shifting patterns of light and shadow, reinforcing the mosque’s sense of contemplation and spiritual illumination.
Through a simple yet distinctive contemporary language, the KSRM Mosque transforms the fragmented character of its context into a unified sacred space—where the act of breaking apart becomes a metaphor for transformation, renewal, and transcendence.

An Office & Experience Centre.

Principal Architect: Kh Abdal Hossain
Project Architect: Salma Hossain
Design Team: Tahiya Tabassum, Alamin islam.
Photography: Mobasser Hussain.

Reincarnation

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Designed & Executed by
Tknrk- Reincarnation - Ace Technology

Client: Crystal International group Limited
Location: Le Meridian, Nikunja 2, Dhaka
Project Area: 14,260 sft
Project Architect : Taniza Arfa Thina
Design Team: Saraf Nawar Haque, Nowrin Rais.
Project Manager: Golam Rabbani Sumon, Md. Kaminul Islam Kamal
Md. Abdullah
Reincarnation
Photography by Prantography
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Ara Manor / Reincarnation Completed in 2025 in Baroicha, Bangladesh. Images by Mehedi Hasan Junaid. Emerging from the green landscape of Narsingdi, Ara Manor is conceived as a retreat where architecture dissolves into climate, vegetation, water, and...

Eid Mubarak to everyone, from us to yours. May all your sacrifices be accepted by Allah SWT.

Framed by sacred geometry and shaped by light, this space unfolds as a journey of reflection and faith.
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Prantography

It was for the Andar Killa Jame Masjid competition proposal in Chittagong. Our vision was not simply to redesign a space—but to reveal what had gradually become hidden over time.

Commissioned by the Islamic Foundation Bangladesh, the project reimagines the historic mosque as a visible and meaningful landmark within the dense urban fabric.

Inspired by the Surah Al-Nur, light became the guiding idea of the design—representing presence, clarity, and spiritual connection. A luminous architectural gateway frames the mosque, allowing it to emerge once again as a defining element of the cityscape.

Rather than separating the mosque from its surroundings, the proposal integrates it within a broader Mughal-inspired landscape, restoring its cultural and historical relationship with the city. Research into iconic Mughal precedents such as Humayun's Tomb, Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, and Jama Masjid informed the spatial language, materiality, and architectural rhythm of the proposal.

The intention was never to compete with history—but to allow history to breathe again.

Rather than treating conservation as preservation alone, the project explores how heritage can remain active, visible, and meaningful within a contemporary urban context.

Designed by Reincarnation.

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