Project Details
AUTHOR NAME: Md. Shahadat Hossain
PROJECT TYPE: Group Studio Assignment
INDIVIDUAL ROLE: Concept & Design Development, Sketch, Model Making
DURATION: 8 Weeks (Design + Drawing)
SITE LOCATION : Dhaka, Bangladesh
STUDIO TEACHERS:
Dr. Jasmin Ara Begum
Dr. Rumana Afroz
Mr. Imran Ebne Amin
DESIGN CONTEXT
Providing housing for urban population is a major issue to address in Dhaka, as this mega city is growing at a faster pace (around 4.5%) and less than one third of the population have houses of different form. To address the present situation the Government of Bangladesh has taken several projects and the housing for middle income group is one of them. The site is located in Uttara model town with 20 acres of land area.
The problems of housing in Dhaka city are multi-dimensional. Recent research shows that majority of the housing in Dhaka city lack adequate space for healthy living and growing for urban population especially children and elderly people who spend most of their time inside the housing. The confined indoor apartment spaces are causing lot of social and psychological problems among the residents.
The residents have indoor as well as outdoor activity areas designed as per their need and also enhance social interaction among them.
AIM
The Aim Of The Project Is To Create Healthy Living Environment So That Different Age Group Of The Residents Have Indoor As Well As Outdoor Activity Areas Designed As Per Their Need And Also Enhance Social Interaction Among Them.
CONCEPT
A CITY WITHIN A CITY
The Project adopts the “City Within a City” concept as the main design Strategy in order to create an active social scenery that reproduces the city scale in a single building.
The design adopts the enclosure of the urbanism scheme and the complexity of the internal organization in order to form a miniature version of many activities through the pathway.
In this scenario, we tried to create a hierarchy of spaces with green buildings and lees energy consumption.
