S M Kaikobad

S M Kaikobad is an interdisciplinary architect and educator currently teaching as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, BRAC University. He owns his own practice and works as a principal at Shoho Sthapon Design Studio (https://www.instagram.com/shoho.sthapon/). His inquiry explores urban place-making, social justice, and civic design through neo-contextual resilient urbanism that contours human behavior. He is continuing his research on contextual design and functional adaptability in the transcending-built environment, informal urbanism and social inclusion for spatial justice, the symbiotic relationship between urban built form and community in the dense build environment, anthropogenic hazards on heritage buildings and conservative resiliency, and cultural programming of memory space through informal aesthetic and interactive material.

Kaikobad believes architecture is a holistic tool to alter the dynamic built environment with positivity, where buildings are not individual entities but an essential part of the speculative progression of time, culture and memory. Driven by this belief, his academic and professional projects reflect context-oriented experiential space-making with an understanding of design as a non-linear process of a collaborative approach to respond to contemporary needs.

Kaikobad served as member secretary in the seminar committee of Arcasia Forum 20 in 2019. He has attended multiple international conferences in the relevant fields and currently working on different design and research projects with a vision of an equal and sharing society. The harmonious balance between teaching, professional practice, and research reflects his excellency in handling multiple tasks concurrently creating a synthesis between academia and practice.

Profile and Works:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/135225375/Portfolio

https://www.bracu.ac.bd/about/people/s-m-kaikobad 
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/S-M-Kaikobad 
https://www.instagram.com/shoho.sthapon/ 

Selected Publications: 

Kaikobad, S.M. (2023). Contextual Approach of Tactical Urbanism as a Tool to Mitigate Social Segregation. In: Hilal, S., Bedir, M., Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Tamke, M. (eds) Design for Partnerships for Change. UIA 2023. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36993-3_12

Kaikobad, S M. (2023). “Encroachment of urban heritage and preservative resiliency: The curious case of Choto Katra”. Book Chapter 1, History and Heritage. Next50: Collective Futures, Critical-creative perspectives on the built environment in Bangladesh. Editor: Saimum Kabir and Dr. Tanzil Shafique.

Kaikobad, S M. Kamal, Tasmia. (2020). “Habitat with people - A bottom up-top-down approach of the low-Income housing design process”. From Engagement to Impact: 1st International Research Symposium on Sustainable Rural Built Environments (SRBE), Kuala Lumpur, February 04 - 06, 2020. ©2020, ID-IDF Sustainable Rural Built Environments Research Network through the International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.

Kaikobad, S M. (2019). Seminar Proceeding. ARCASIA Forum 20, Architecture in Changing Landscape, Dhaka. November 03 – 07, 2019. Convener of seminar Committee, Professor Fuad H Mallick. Published by the Institute of Architects, Bangladesh. http://www.iab.com.bd/Site/Publication?pid=9.

Kaikobad, S M. (2019). “Breathing Life in Space, Interaction over isolation.” Aspirations and Ideas – Designing with the Context. Chapter: Mobility in Mega city, Editor: Mohammed Zakiul Islam and Saimum Kabir. Published by University Press Limited and Contextbd, Dhaka, October 2019. Page 195 – 200. ISBN: 978-984-506-279-4.

Kaikobad, S M. (2018). Street Food Vending – Informal Urbanism as Social Inclusion. The 11th Conference of the Pacific Rim Community Design Network, in conjunction with Great Asian Street Symposium and Structure for Inclusion 2018, Emerging Civic Urbanism/Designing for Social Impact. Department of Architecture, National Singapore University, 14-16 December 2018. Page 218-236. http://prcdnet.org/working-conferences-papers/2018-singapore/