Architectural significance of TSC The Teacher-Student centre{TSC) was designed by Konstantinos Doxiadis, a Greek architect-planner. The Centre is an example of modern architecture as it respects the local culture, climate, and indigenous spatial arrangement around a court. As a unique feature it has an extra butterfly canopy (double roof ) extended over the main block at the front to keep it cool. This Complex brings together dining rooms and meeting rooms, library and reading rooms, art and music rooms, stage and multipurpose hall, games rooms, film lab, rehearsal rooms, etc. under one roof. These form the social and cultural heart of the campus. The complex has some extensions which were built during the 1980s that allowed north-south cross-ventilation . As one enters TSC, as it is popularly known, a sculpture of crows in flight by Ekushey award winning sculptor Hamiduzzaman Khan greets the visitors. Across the green lawn to the east of the TSC, a small Greek Mausoleum stands distinctively. It is the only surviving mausoleum in the fond memory of Demetrius, which was built in 1915. The Government architect designed this small square structure as a classical doric monument rather than in a more ecclesiastical style. It has a flat roof and projecting front on all sides, with entrance on the east, that transforms the square plan into a cruciform shape. It is the only trace of the small Greek community that existed in Bangladesh in the 19th century. The mausoleum still has nice epitaphs attached to the wall, most of which is written in classical Greek. The TSC complex also contains a pair of small Siva temples, and a dwarf monument in between, inside the swimming pool enclave. The swimming pool is currently not in use.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:30:01 +0000
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