DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
SECTION THROUGH THE STRUCTURE OPTION 1:
SECTION THROUGH THE STRUCTURE OPTION 2:
LAYOUT FLOOR PLANS OF THE STRUCTURE
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
OF
OLD AND NEW LIVING SPACES
In past years, most of the living units were designed to have backyards, courtyards and gardens as recreational and breathing spaces.
In todays trendy living units, we call apartments, these recreational and breathing spaces are missing. or even if we have these spaces outside the living units they are not enough to cater much of people living in these apartments.
The skyline and the visual and aesthetic sense of the spaces are disturbed because of them.
REPHRASING
THESIS ABSTRACT:
Karachi is a vast city that today is facing some of the most complex problems, most prominently the problem of high density living areas. There is always a need to create balance in solid and void relationship. If this balance is not maintained, it generates a lot of problems for the users, for the infrastructure and for planning and skyline of the area.
In the old housing patterns we had courtyards, verandas and backyards that were used as recreational plus breathing spaces for the people living in. These breathing spaces meant to balance the solid void relationship that is necessary for psyche of the environment. But due to economy, land use issues and population influx in Karachi city, 60% of new construction is encouraged to have vertical living, causing lack of recreational and breathing spaces. Particularly areas like Gulistan-e-Johar were intended to be built as vertical city, these breathing spaces deadly lacks. People living in the vertical apartments do not have breathing spaces, neither in their living units nor outside the apartment buildings. The only breathing spaces that exist are those neighbourhood parks, majority of them are transformed into commercial plots by land use changes. Instead of these breathing recreational spaces, the people of the area use foot paths as their sitting and relaxation points. The activity that is generated due to hawkers and food stalls is now becoming the part of context near every apartment building. These activities create more damages and problems in infrastructure and culture of the area than catering lack of recreation and open space.
The overall culture in Gulistan-e-Johar can be seen as there are apartment buildings, parks and street, green belts and pathways. In the present situations generally, apartment buildings do not have breathing spaces and high density of people living. And apartments are so much close to each other that they cannot even view vistas. Even if they use their balconies they are forced to look at other apartment buildings or road side rush in some cases. The concept of looking at vistas is dead in these spaces. The streets, that are considered as verandas of the apartment blocks, are densely busy and the parks have boundaries, mean they can only be used by crossing gate and get inside, instead a peaceful pathway to pass through. The spaces that are in-between these apartments, including parks, streets and activities at them are intentioned to study.
Along with analyzing these in-between spaces and their impacts, on the lives of people passing through them and people that are living in neighbourhood area, this thesis claims to have breathing spaces in the clusters of the living apartments and their functions so that these space act beneficially for the people and help generating better spaces in-between these apartment buildings. Hence improves the skyline of the whole area by adding green spaces vertically.
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