Concept preview Tidehouse is a fictional institution imagined for Cox’s Bazar.

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Moonlit Tidehouse concept campus facing the Bay of Bengal

Cox’s Bazar, imagined at the waterline

Come closer
to the blue.

Tidehouse brings the Bay of Bengal into view through living galleries, open research and coastal stories designed to leave you looking longer.

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Three ways into the water

Begin with
what moves you.

Follow a ray through a moonlit gallery, stand beside a live research bench or browse the remarkable neighbours of the Bay of Bengal. Every path reconnects.

Blue-spotted ray gliding over rippled sand under shafts of moonlike aquarium light
07.4 mWindow depth

The tide window

A room that changes
with the water.

At the centre of Tidehouse, one immense window follows a single Bay of Bengal habitat from pale morning current to deep-blue dusk.

Watch sand lift beneath a ray’s wings. Notice a grouper hold steady in the flow. Return an hour later and the whole composition has shifted. Interpretation is quiet here: a few exact prompts, long benches and enough time to see behaviour unfold.

Look forThe moment a blue-spotted ray settles and almost disappears.
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Coast-to-deep-water thinking

Wonder is only
the beginning.

Tidehouse imagines a public campus where every gallery question can travel outward: to a seagrass quadrat, a mangrove sediment core or a hydrophone listening below monsoon waves.

Explore the fieldwork
03Imagined research priorities
01Connected coastal system
Questions worth following

Figures describe this fictional concept, not current operations.

Learning by looking closely

Small hands.
Serious questions.

Programmes begin with evidence children can touch, compare, sketch and debate. Every session is imagined with access choices and clear learning outcomes.

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Bangladeshi school students comparing plankton samples with a facilitator

Schools · Ages 9–14 · 90 min

Plankton Detectives

Build a food web from what appears in one tiny drop of coastal water.

Family examining shells and seaweed together at a supervised tidal table

Families · Ages 4+ · 45 min

Tidal Table

Slow down around shells, textures and the creatures that wait between tides.

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the waterline.

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