In the aftermath of the demolition of Pruit Igoe it was thought to be the end of modernist high-r... more In the aftermath of the demolition of Pruit Igoe it was thought to be the end of modernist high-rise housing complexes that made people dreamt to finally have the solution to ever increasing housing needs. The failure was deemed to put an end to the towers that enabled high density housing and soon finding an alternative for this approach was initiated. Though for lack of success many other similar project faced demolition without a second thought into value judgement.
The destruction of building blocks has been called into question for the intense environmental impact and implicit waste of resources that demolition/reconstruction represents. Refurbishment is being increasingly proposed as potentially the better alternate option when the original structures are sound as it requires less money.
An unique approach to redefining the modern social housing block with the help of new construction techniques resulted into a diverse living unit through means of experimentation. This document tries to understand the process in a pictorial analysis into the body of works done by the Architect.
In Bangladesh recent years has shown massive shift to industrial development which helped the eco... more In Bangladesh recent years has shown massive shift to industrial development which helped the economic growth and significant improvement of national GDP as well as living standard to marginal poor communities. In exchange the urban areas especially at the fringe were largely compensated by establishing hazardous industries like readymade garments, textiles and leather processing and productions. Tanneries that process raw skin to leather items has been identified as one of the top reason for environmental degradation of soil, massive air and water pollution in the overall river network surrounding the capital city Dhaka and a direct cause of numerous health problems. The industry grown over the last four decades following a petition by High court ruling and government policy adaption in year 2001 was set to be relocated in the suburban area of Savar industrial zone from the base of main Tannery area located at Hazaribagh, Dhaka. With the objective of an environment friendly industrial zone the primary intension of this big relocation project was to attract investment and improve the GDP further to compete in the International Leather Market. So far in the last 15 years no significant development has been done. Over generalization and failing to develop a comprehensive plan eventually caused a lot of social, political and economic tension that led to such extent of delay. This discussion paper will focus the analysis of the relocation planning project called “Tannery Estate” in regards to the city and also the later industrial region, from obvious empirical query; is the current relocation plan well-crafted in light of sustainable development? Assuming it isn’t what are key factors that needs immediate resolution in the policy plan and why?
In Sao Paulo the industries flourished during the industrial revolution and occupied once the per... more In Sao Paulo the industries flourished during the industrial revolution and occupied once the periphery of the city. But with rapid urbanization and expansion of the city area and parallel shift in the world economy led to closure of many of these industries that was strategically also located near the main arteries of the city. All these urban plots have become subjected to real estate development and changing in to high value establishment of residential, commercial or mixed types. In a city already lacking open spaces and public places these large parcels of industrial brown fields since the city canalized the Tiete-Pinheiros river banks eventually was located at the natural flood plain. As a result of the geological reason all these areas annually face flash flood from raining.
Through revitalizing and reinventing these urban parcels hold tremendous potential to facilitate the city with better urban green-blue areas that is essential for better city life and can help gaining resistance to environmental problems like floods , drought too.
This paper will reflect the idea and strategy developed in course of designing better urban condition by re-qualifying the water and infrastructure at the flood plain of Pinheiros near Santo Amaro. With the help of a brief literature and similar cases and finally with mapping of the floodplain the study will try to elaborate the possibility in reclamation and reoccupation strategy for coherent social environmental and ecological betterment.
A study was initiated for the course work of Landscape Urbanism curated by Professor Kelly Shanno... more A study was initiated for the course work of Landscape Urbanism curated by Professor Kelly Shannon for which each participant were asked to analyze one indigenous and one designed case from their home country based on a detailed reading of Landscape Urbanism Reader. This assembles a dilapidated 300 years old settlement called "The Panam Nagar" and a 50 years old Residential University Master plan done by famous Bangali Modernist Architect Muzharul Islam. The paper aims at manifesting logic of urbanism and landscape for this two cases and tries to relate them based on a literary arguments and imagery discussion.
When the western civilization is slowly turning away from sprawl development and researching the ... more When the western civilization is slowly turning away from sprawl development and researching the potential of reinventing the exiting city, the global south is still blindly following same route in the name of solving housing problem. Dhaka with the highest population density metropolitan area is a highly urbanized and searching alternative solution to house ever expanding population. Without proper assessment the government initiation to urbanize peripheral rural area to satellite township is causing not only socio-political tension but also massive spatial shift which is causing related urban problems including ecological imbalance and disappearance of agricultural lands. All these gigantic master plan projects completely neglects integration to existing morphology which leads to further isolation and fragmentation in these regions. This paper analyzes the twenty yearlong “Purbachal Satellite Township” located in the north east fringe of Dhaka as a strategic spatial project. Investigating imperative elements such as Land acquisition policy and price dispute, relocation, rehabilitation and compensation reality, new Land use plan and lack of hierarchy in user groups, transformation of geology and negative environmental actions and lastly consideration to local issues; this paper aims to draw the flaws of copying western model of township development in the global south. How improper strategic spatial planning by both Government and Private Sector Township is redefining the periphery of Dhaka city by pushing the rural settlements and natural tissues to extinction has been critically illustrated.
Founded back in the 1998 in Shidhulai, a small flood prone remote village in the north-western re... more Founded back in the 1998 in Shidhulai, a small flood prone remote village in the north-western region of Bangladesh, the Shidhulai Swanirvar Shangstha (SSS) is working since on the motto to fight back the impact of climate change. The project upholds the combination of adaptation to local technique as well as integration of new technologies and elements, developing a network of community based support system that provides people basic needs of education, health facilities, and access to information, and simple solution to energy needs through innovation and design. Participatory involvement of the community is also the heart of this project. The initial idea and still the core of this project is the concept of a floating school that reaches out to the students in the remote areas in times of flood. The development strategies consists mobility, flexibility, low-cost, adaptability, productivity, knowledge and last but not the least sustainability. In a form of NGO [1] the project successfully implemented several ideas that transformed the overall lifestyle for the remote flood-prone area around Chalan Beel [2]. Besides achieving recognition from all around world and winning awards and grants, this project have inspired a lot of other communities around the world who copied or remodeled the solution to solve mobility and other life needs through transformation of local technology. The SSS is working for the benefit of the poor landless and marginal farmers who form 40% of the population and 35% of these people live below poverty line.
Day by day the squeezing influx of built volumes are making our playgrounds vanish. The only surv... more Day by day the squeezing influx of built volumes are making our playgrounds vanish. The only surviving places for people to have somewhat outdoor activity are those neighborhood parks. The fragile small piece of open greens are the last remaining of a once lush green city and hardly supports as a place for celebration. At the residential zone of Mohammadpur there are a few examples of this nature which with time changed the use pattern effected by the users and generated a new dimension of urban neighborhood park.
Dhaka city has an urbanization process over 200 years old and a history of over 400
years. Over t... more Dhaka city has an urbanization process over 200 years old and a history of over 400 years. Over this period of time Dhaka evolve to one of the crowded and most densely populated city of the world. The city flourished in trade and commerce, developed residential areas and educational facilities and all necessary infrastructures to support the life system of the city and its inhabitants. In this period of time not only the population increased but also a massive change in overall city built environment was staged. But most of these developments were soon challenged by the almost tripled population in the late 90’s. A field data survey will be conducted focusing on the effects of ever changing land use, circulation and connections producing urban left over spaces at land scares center of Dhaka. As a case study the Elephant Road subsequent adjacent nodal areas will be studied, surveyed and analyzed. The area came under the impression of massive development phase at the late 90’s and early 2000 and left behind significant urban fabric manipulation due this course. The study will search for and document the aftereffect and current conditions to the defined left over urban spaces and try to rectify the overall city image through proper management of these left over spaces.
In the aftermath of the demolition of Pruit Igoe it was thought to be the end of modernist high-r... more In the aftermath of the demolition of Pruit Igoe it was thought to be the end of modernist high-rise housing complexes that made people dreamt to finally have the solution to ever increasing housing needs. The failure was deemed to put an end to the towers that enabled high density housing and soon finding an alternative for this approach was initiated. Though for lack of success many other similar project faced demolition without a second thought into value judgement.
The destruction of building blocks has been called into question for the intense environmental impact and implicit waste of resources that demolition/reconstruction represents. Refurbishment is being increasingly proposed as potentially the better alternate option when the original structures are sound as it requires less money.
An unique approach to redefining the modern social housing block with the help of new construction techniques resulted into a diverse living unit through means of experimentation. This document tries to understand the process in a pictorial analysis into the body of works done by the Architect.
In Bangladesh recent years has shown massive shift to industrial development which helped the eco... more In Bangladesh recent years has shown massive shift to industrial development which helped the economic growth and significant improvement of national GDP as well as living standard to marginal poor communities. In exchange the urban areas especially at the fringe were largely compensated by establishing hazardous industries like readymade garments, textiles and leather processing and productions. Tanneries that process raw skin to leather items has been identified as one of the top reason for environmental degradation of soil, massive air and water pollution in the overall river network surrounding the capital city Dhaka and a direct cause of numerous health problems. The industry grown over the last four decades following a petition by High court ruling and government policy adaption in year 2001 was set to be relocated in the suburban area of Savar industrial zone from the base of main Tannery area located at Hazaribagh, Dhaka. With the objective of an environment friendly industrial zone the primary intension of this big relocation project was to attract investment and improve the GDP further to compete in the International Leather Market. So far in the last 15 years no significant development has been done. Over generalization and failing to develop a comprehensive plan eventually caused a lot of social, political and economic tension that led to such extent of delay. This discussion paper will focus the analysis of the relocation planning project called “Tannery Estate” in regards to the city and also the later industrial region, from obvious empirical query; is the current relocation plan well-crafted in light of sustainable development? Assuming it isn’t what are key factors that needs immediate resolution in the policy plan and why?
In Sao Paulo the industries flourished during the industrial revolution and occupied once the per... more In Sao Paulo the industries flourished during the industrial revolution and occupied once the periphery of the city. But with rapid urbanization and expansion of the city area and parallel shift in the world economy led to closure of many of these industries that was strategically also located near the main arteries of the city. All these urban plots have become subjected to real estate development and changing in to high value establishment of residential, commercial or mixed types. In a city already lacking open spaces and public places these large parcels of industrial brown fields since the city canalized the Tiete-Pinheiros river banks eventually was located at the natural flood plain. As a result of the geological reason all these areas annually face flash flood from raining.
Through revitalizing and reinventing these urban parcels hold tremendous potential to facilitate the city with better urban green-blue areas that is essential for better city life and can help gaining resistance to environmental problems like floods , drought too.
This paper will reflect the idea and strategy developed in course of designing better urban condition by re-qualifying the water and infrastructure at the flood plain of Pinheiros near Santo Amaro. With the help of a brief literature and similar cases and finally with mapping of the floodplain the study will try to elaborate the possibility in reclamation and reoccupation strategy for coherent social environmental and ecological betterment.
A study was initiated for the course work of Landscape Urbanism curated by Professor Kelly Shanno... more A study was initiated for the course work of Landscape Urbanism curated by Professor Kelly Shannon for which each participant were asked to analyze one indigenous and one designed case from their home country based on a detailed reading of Landscape Urbanism Reader. This assembles a dilapidated 300 years old settlement called "The Panam Nagar" and a 50 years old Residential University Master plan done by famous Bangali Modernist Architect Muzharul Islam. The paper aims at manifesting logic of urbanism and landscape for this two cases and tries to relate them based on a literary arguments and imagery discussion.
When the western civilization is slowly turning away from sprawl development and researching the ... more When the western civilization is slowly turning away from sprawl development and researching the potential of reinventing the exiting city, the global south is still blindly following same route in the name of solving housing problem. Dhaka with the highest population density metropolitan area is a highly urbanized and searching alternative solution to house ever expanding population. Without proper assessment the government initiation to urbanize peripheral rural area to satellite township is causing not only socio-political tension but also massive spatial shift which is causing related urban problems including ecological imbalance and disappearance of agricultural lands. All these gigantic master plan projects completely neglects integration to existing morphology which leads to further isolation and fragmentation in these regions. This paper analyzes the twenty yearlong “Purbachal Satellite Township” located in the north east fringe of Dhaka as a strategic spatial project. Investigating imperative elements such as Land acquisition policy and price dispute, relocation, rehabilitation and compensation reality, new Land use plan and lack of hierarchy in user groups, transformation of geology and negative environmental actions and lastly consideration to local issues; this paper aims to draw the flaws of copying western model of township development in the global south. How improper strategic spatial planning by both Government and Private Sector Township is redefining the periphery of Dhaka city by pushing the rural settlements and natural tissues to extinction has been critically illustrated.
Founded back in the 1998 in Shidhulai, a small flood prone remote village in the north-western re... more Founded back in the 1998 in Shidhulai, a small flood prone remote village in the north-western region of Bangladesh, the Shidhulai Swanirvar Shangstha (SSS) is working since on the motto to fight back the impact of climate change. The project upholds the combination of adaptation to local technique as well as integration of new technologies and elements, developing a network of community based support system that provides people basic needs of education, health facilities, and access to information, and simple solution to energy needs through innovation and design. Participatory involvement of the community is also the heart of this project. The initial idea and still the core of this project is the concept of a floating school that reaches out to the students in the remote areas in times of flood. The development strategies consists mobility, flexibility, low-cost, adaptability, productivity, knowledge and last but not the least sustainability. In a form of NGO [1] the project successfully implemented several ideas that transformed the overall lifestyle for the remote flood-prone area around Chalan Beel [2]. Besides achieving recognition from all around world and winning awards and grants, this project have inspired a lot of other communities around the world who copied or remodeled the solution to solve mobility and other life needs through transformation of local technology. The SSS is working for the benefit of the poor landless and marginal farmers who form 40% of the population and 35% of these people live below poverty line.
Day by day the squeezing influx of built volumes are making our playgrounds vanish. The only surv... more Day by day the squeezing influx of built volumes are making our playgrounds vanish. The only surviving places for people to have somewhat outdoor activity are those neighborhood parks. The fragile small piece of open greens are the last remaining of a once lush green city and hardly supports as a place for celebration. At the residential zone of Mohammadpur there are a few examples of this nature which with time changed the use pattern effected by the users and generated a new dimension of urban neighborhood park.
Dhaka city has an urbanization process over 200 years old and a history of over 400
years. Over t... more Dhaka city has an urbanization process over 200 years old and a history of over 400 years. Over this period of time Dhaka evolve to one of the crowded and most densely populated city of the world. The city flourished in trade and commerce, developed residential areas and educational facilities and all necessary infrastructures to support the life system of the city and its inhabitants. In this period of time not only the population increased but also a massive change in overall city built environment was staged. But most of these developments were soon challenged by the almost tripled population in the late 90’s. A field data survey will be conducted focusing on the effects of ever changing land use, circulation and connections producing urban left over spaces at land scares center of Dhaka. As a case study the Elephant Road subsequent adjacent nodal areas will be studied, surveyed and analyzed. The area came under the impression of massive development phase at the late 90’s and early 2000 and left behind significant urban fabric manipulation due this course. The study will search for and document the aftereffect and current conditions to the defined left over urban spaces and try to rectify the overall city image through proper management of these left over spaces.
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The destruction of building blocks has been called into question for the intense environmental impact and implicit waste of resources that demolition/reconstruction represents. Refurbishment is being
increasingly proposed as potentially the better alternate option when the original structures are sound as it requires less money.
An unique approach to redefining the modern social housing block with the help of new construction techniques resulted into a diverse living unit through means of experimentation. This document tries to understand the process in a pictorial analysis into the body of works done by the Architect.
The industry grown over the last four decades following a petition by High court ruling and government policy adaption in year 2001 was set to be relocated in the suburban area of Savar industrial zone from the base of main Tannery area located at Hazaribagh, Dhaka. With the objective of an environment friendly industrial zone the primary intension of this big relocation project was to attract investment and improve the GDP further to compete in the International Leather Market.
So far in the last 15 years no significant development has been done. Over generalization and failing to develop a comprehensive plan eventually caused a lot of social, political and economic tension that led to such extent of delay. This discussion paper will focus the analysis of the relocation planning project called “Tannery Estate” in regards to the city and also the later industrial region, from obvious empirical query; is the current relocation plan well-crafted in light of sustainable development? Assuming it isn’t what are key factors that needs immediate resolution in the policy plan and why?
Through revitalizing and reinventing these urban parcels hold tremendous potential to facilitate the city with better urban green-blue areas that is essential for better city life and can help gaining resistance to environmental problems like floods , drought too.
This paper will reflect the idea and strategy developed in course of designing better urban condition by re-qualifying the water and infrastructure at the flood plain of Pinheiros near Santo Amaro. With the help of a brief literature and similar cases and finally with mapping of the floodplain the study will try to elaborate the possibility in reclamation and reoccupation strategy for coherent social environmental and ecological betterment.
This paper analyzes the twenty yearlong “Purbachal Satellite Township” located in the north east fringe of Dhaka as a strategic spatial project. Investigating imperative elements such as Land acquisition policy and price dispute, relocation, rehabilitation and compensation reality, new Land use plan and lack of hierarchy in user groups, transformation of geology and negative environmental actions and lastly consideration to local issues; this paper aims to draw the flaws of copying western model of township development in the global south. How improper strategic spatial planning by both Government and Private Sector Township is redefining the periphery of Dhaka city by pushing the rural settlements and natural tissues to extinction has been critically illustrated.
The initial idea and still the core of this project is the concept of a floating school that reaches out to the students in the remote areas in times of flood. The development strategies consists mobility, flexibility, low-cost, adaptability, productivity, knowledge and last but not the least sustainability. In a form of NGO [1] the project successfully implemented several ideas that transformed the overall lifestyle for the remote flood-prone area around Chalan Beel [2]. Besides achieving recognition from all around world and winning awards and grants, this project have inspired a lot of other communities around the world who copied or remodeled the solution to solve mobility and other life needs through transformation of local technology. The SSS is working for the benefit of the poor landless and marginal farmers who form 40% of the population and 35% of these people live below poverty line.
years. Over this period of time Dhaka evolve to one of the crowded and most densely
populated city of the world. The city flourished in trade and commerce, developed
residential areas and educational facilities and all necessary infrastructures to support
the life system of the city and its inhabitants. In this period of time not only the
population increased but also a massive change in overall city built environment was
staged. But most of these developments were soon challenged by the almost tripled
population in the late 90’s. A field data survey will be conducted focusing on the effects
of ever changing land use, circulation and connections producing urban left over
spaces at land scares center of Dhaka. As a case study the Elephant Road
subsequent adjacent nodal areas will be studied, surveyed and analyzed. The area
came under the impression of massive development phase at the late 90’s and early
2000 and left behind significant urban fabric manipulation due this course. The study
will search for and document the aftereffect and current conditions to the defined left
over urban spaces and try to rectify the overall city image through proper management
of these left over spaces.
The destruction of building blocks has been called into question for the intense environmental impact and implicit waste of resources that demolition/reconstruction represents. Refurbishment is being
increasingly proposed as potentially the better alternate option when the original structures are sound as it requires less money.
An unique approach to redefining the modern social housing block with the help of new construction techniques resulted into a diverse living unit through means of experimentation. This document tries to understand the process in a pictorial analysis into the body of works done by the Architect.
The industry grown over the last four decades following a petition by High court ruling and government policy adaption in year 2001 was set to be relocated in the suburban area of Savar industrial zone from the base of main Tannery area located at Hazaribagh, Dhaka. With the objective of an environment friendly industrial zone the primary intension of this big relocation project was to attract investment and improve the GDP further to compete in the International Leather Market.
So far in the last 15 years no significant development has been done. Over generalization and failing to develop a comprehensive plan eventually caused a lot of social, political and economic tension that led to such extent of delay. This discussion paper will focus the analysis of the relocation planning project called “Tannery Estate” in regards to the city and also the later industrial region, from obvious empirical query; is the current relocation plan well-crafted in light of sustainable development? Assuming it isn’t what are key factors that needs immediate resolution in the policy plan and why?
Through revitalizing and reinventing these urban parcels hold tremendous potential to facilitate the city with better urban green-blue areas that is essential for better city life and can help gaining resistance to environmental problems like floods , drought too.
This paper will reflect the idea and strategy developed in course of designing better urban condition by re-qualifying the water and infrastructure at the flood plain of Pinheiros near Santo Amaro. With the help of a brief literature and similar cases and finally with mapping of the floodplain the study will try to elaborate the possibility in reclamation and reoccupation strategy for coherent social environmental and ecological betterment.
This paper analyzes the twenty yearlong “Purbachal Satellite Township” located in the north east fringe of Dhaka as a strategic spatial project. Investigating imperative elements such as Land acquisition policy and price dispute, relocation, rehabilitation and compensation reality, new Land use plan and lack of hierarchy in user groups, transformation of geology and negative environmental actions and lastly consideration to local issues; this paper aims to draw the flaws of copying western model of township development in the global south. How improper strategic spatial planning by both Government and Private Sector Township is redefining the periphery of Dhaka city by pushing the rural settlements and natural tissues to extinction has been critically illustrated.
The initial idea and still the core of this project is the concept of a floating school that reaches out to the students in the remote areas in times of flood. The development strategies consists mobility, flexibility, low-cost, adaptability, productivity, knowledge and last but not the least sustainability. In a form of NGO [1] the project successfully implemented several ideas that transformed the overall lifestyle for the remote flood-prone area around Chalan Beel [2]. Besides achieving recognition from all around world and winning awards and grants, this project have inspired a lot of other communities around the world who copied or remodeled the solution to solve mobility and other life needs through transformation of local technology. The SSS is working for the benefit of the poor landless and marginal farmers who form 40% of the population and 35% of these people live below poverty line.
years. Over this period of time Dhaka evolve to one of the crowded and most densely
populated city of the world. The city flourished in trade and commerce, developed
residential areas and educational facilities and all necessary infrastructures to support
the life system of the city and its inhabitants. In this period of time not only the
population increased but also a massive change in overall city built environment was
staged. But most of these developments were soon challenged by the almost tripled
population in the late 90’s. A field data survey will be conducted focusing on the effects
of ever changing land use, circulation and connections producing urban left over
spaces at land scares center of Dhaka. As a case study the Elephant Road
subsequent adjacent nodal areas will be studied, surveyed and analyzed. The area
came under the impression of massive development phase at the late 90’s and early
2000 and left behind significant urban fabric manipulation due this course. The study
will search for and document the aftereffect and current conditions to the defined left
over urban spaces and try to rectify the overall city image through proper management
of these left over spaces.