Urban green infrastructure is often framed as a design and planning issue: cities need more parks, trees, wetlands, green corridors, and open spaces to address environmental issues related to global…
Human’s City What makes a city? High population density, advanced infrastructure, formal administration, and economic vibrancy. When you think of a city, the first thoughts that might occur are tall…
“Sometimes it’s the imperfect stuff that makes things Perfect” This quote plays a catalytic role in the Final Season of the iconic Sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, where the protagonist,…
Whereas traditional universities generally expand horizontally and require vast spaces, here in Bangladesh’s capital city, Dhaka, a university has been built vertically in a dense urban area, in a way…
How often would I explore a city that I knew was constantly tracking me? Would I sit alone in a quiet park or a public place knowing that I was…
Since, olden times architecture is what is required by people from temples, schools, parks to houses. Architecture is what revolves around the people. But, in modern times, some decisions are…
How the cities of literature, cinema, and speculative design have always been more than stories they are blueprints for the real, rehearsals for the possible, and warnings about the probable.…
Architecture is often understood through buildings themselves—their façades, materials, structures and forms. Yet buildings are rarely experienced as isolated objects. People move between them, pause beside them, gather around them…
A woman gets down from the local train at Andheri station at 8:30 a.m., keeping one hand on her handbag while she uses the other to lift her kurta as…
Imagine a street on an ordinary Tuesday morning. People are walking to work, buses are moving through traffic, shops are opening, and children are heading to school. Nothing appears unusual.…
What do you understand by the word “space”? The term is associated with a lot of subjects, but what we are talking about here is the space you occupy as…
For much of history, life has been organised into a simple sequence of spaces – home, work, and everything in between. It became routine: waking up in one place, travelling…