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Student's project / Nature of study

« on: September 08, 2015, 03:06:48 PM »

The nature of study in the Department of Architecture is different from other departments. The practical classes are project oriented. A project is introduced with specific focus/ objectives. Students work and consult with the teachers, they analyze by sketching, making model etc. The lateral learning from senior batch is very important so they are encouraged to discuss with others. In this process they develop their critical thinking power.

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Student's project / Learning through model making

« on: September 08, 2015, 02:59:41 PM »

Learning through model making can be an important tool. Students made model of 'Church of light' in their 'Luminous Environment in Architecture' course and analyzing it. They analyzed through drawing and rendering techniques.

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Faculty Forum / Basic Model-making Workshop

« on: September 08, 2015, 01:03:49 PM »

For visualizing and communicating the design, model plays an important role. The quality of a model depends on the methods and techniques followed. The first impression of a design transcends through the visualization. So, it is very important to have a good idea of the model making process.
Organizing model making workshop is very recent demand. To keep pace with the ongoing trend, we invited some model making instructors from BUET who are very qualified in this area. The department organized a two day long basic workshop, where all the students cheerfully participated. It was a great experience for the students to enrich their ideas of the model making process. This experience will be shared by the senior students to the newly admitted and the overall quality of the department will uplift.
The workshop was conducted following the participatory and problem solving approach. At first they were given a problem and they solved it by themselves and the outcome was astonishing! Five models of different structural systems were made and presented towards t

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Faculty Forum / [b]Tessellation [/b]

« on: September 08, 2015, 01:00:52 PM »

Tessellation
A tessellation of a flat surface is the tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps.

       
In architecture, tessellations have been used to create decorative motifs since ancient times. Mosaic tilings often had geometric patterns.[4] Later civilisations also used larger tiles, either plain or individually decorated. Some of the most decorative were the Moorish wall tilings of Islamic architecture, using Girih tiles in buildings such as the Alhambra and La Mezquita.
Tessellations frequently appeared in the graphic art of M. C. Escher; he was inspired by the Moorish use of symmetry in places such as the Alhambra when he visited Spain in 1936. Escher made four "Circle Limit" drawings of tilings which use hyperbolic geometry. For his woodcut "Circle Limit IV" (1960), Escher prepared a pencil and ink study showing the required geometry.[71] Escher explained that "No single component of all the series, which from infinitely far away rise like rockets perpendicularly from the limit and are at last lost in it, ever reaches the boundary line."
Tessellated designs often appear on textiles, whether woven, stitched in or printed. Tessellation patterns have been used to design interlocking motifs of patch shapes in quilts.
The honeycomb provides a well-known example of tessellation in nature with its hexagonal cells

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Faculty Forum / Workshop on Basic Water color techniques in Department of Architecture (DoA)

« on: September 08, 2015, 12:57:14 PM »

Water color is very popular technique in wet media painting. In HUM-102 Art appreciation course students get to know about this technique. The DoA organized a workshop on Basic Water color techniques on 6th September, 2015. Mr. Sk. Md. Rezwan, lecturer of DoA was the instructor and students practically worked on different techniques i.e. wet on wet, wet on dry, tonal variation in landscape, dual color blend and edge definition etc. At the end of this workshop the white board of the classroom turned into colored board by student’s project.

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Departments / Natural color

« on: August 30, 2015, 03:02:52 PM »

We always see the color in nature as a form of flower, leaf, fruits, clay etc. This color was an important source of drawing in ancient times. with the development of artificial color we almost forgot the very source of color. So in my art I tried to create color from nature and used it in painting which can be termed as 'organic art'. I used yellow flower, violet leaf as color and hyacinth root, petiole as brush. See the result in non-edited and edited version.

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Departments / Learning from nature

« on: August 30, 2015, 02:48:19 PM »

Participating in a course on Landscape at Bengal Institute. Currently working on a workshop where we observed nature very closely and tried to find inspiration to design. I worked on tree buckle. A surface of a Raintree holds numerous life under its buckle, which is changed naturally. It grows up with lots of life with it for example, ants, mushrooms, creepers, fungus etc.. I got really mesmerized seeing it. I tried to create this idea in a designed module which can attract other life form. So I placed it on a barren land where no grass is grown hoping that few days later life will be attracted and it will become green again.

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Departments / Student Ideas Competition for the Tejgaon Airport Site

« on: March 22, 2015, 09:43:33 AM »

A student team from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology(BUET) recently posted a video of their entry for the Student Ideas Competition for the Tejgaon Airport Site organised by the BUET Alumni. The video shows a great technique for design charettes; utilising one sheet of large format paper to brainstorm issues, ideas, and create small vignettes depicting the main ideas and principles.

The competition challenged multidisciplinary student teams to develop planning and design proposals for the 415 acre site of Tejgaon old airport, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The primary goal of the participants is to develop proposals for the Tejgaon Old Airport site to transform the existing under-utilized site into an urban public space for city dwellers.

CONCEPT
Our idea was to create an icon for the city to dream big, aspire for a better future.

We have got iconic monuments of cultural and political history. But the history of this deltaic landscape has been brutally erased from this city. In order to dream for a green sustainable future we need an ecological icon. This icon will be no vertical monument, rather a horizontal stretch of water, marshland and forest depicting the memory of the ecological and agricultural landscape of this deltaic city. The roadside periphery of the site will provide intimate public gathering space, pedestrian and bicycle pathway and overhead causeway to observe the nature within. Through biological conservation we are idolizing our dream of a greener future.

Team |
Enam Rabbi Adnan,
Mumtaheena Rifat,
Tazrin Islam,
Shakib Ahmed Lam,
Sara Ahmed;
Dept. of Architecture, BUET.
Jamal Uddin Khan;
Dept. of CE, BUET.
Jyoti Bikas Das;
Dept. of URP, BUET.

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Departments / Bashundhara City context

« on: March 10, 2015, 11:17:25 AM »

The site of Bashundhara City lies in between 2 major transportation routes (Airport Road at its west and Mirpur Road on its east) which links Motijheel - the old CBD and the burgeoning Northern part. Location-wise Bashundhara City is in the central position with respect to the existing and projecting developments and has the potentiality to become the ultimate growth centre of this area and lessening the burden of pressure on the over congested areas. The B-City site serves all the prerequisites for an international level Shopping development ranging from the easy accessibility to strategic location of surrounding thriving commercial developments.
The site by the side of the Panthapath Road and SAARC Fountain Crossing for the proposed B-City is of great commercial importance. As with the commerce and manufacturing industry, the locational trend has been northwards of Dhaka with significant concentrations emerging in the Pan Pacific Sonargaon hotel/Karwan bazaar area, Panthapath Link from Karwan Bazaar to Mirpur Road, Tejgaon and Banani-Gulshan. The site also has the potential to be linked or incorporated with many projected road network segments for development either by RHD or RajUK as proposed in the Dhaka Metropolitan Development Planning (DMDP) for 1995-2015. The proposed Eastern Bypass so extended would be capable of linking to the proposed Bashundhara City to its east through Panthapath Link.

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Departments / Changing retail pattern

« on: March 10, 2015, 11:13:02 AM »

Cities are meant to be changes due to circumstances, culture, societies, politics and economy so as the commercial spaces. The retail shopping environments of Dhaka city evolved progressively over the time period. They have developed within a continuous growth process by the needs and aspiration of different retailer and consumer group. These changes are also evident in the internal layout of the shopping complex. Even within one shopping complex these changes occur to attract more consumers. The selected shopping mall for the study was said to be one of largest shopping mall in South Asia and had a huge/great impact on the retail activity pattern of the Dhaka city.Bashundhara City was designed to meet the recent trend of shopping complex in the developed world is expressed by endorsing “all-integrated facilities within one roof”. Over the period of the mall has been gone through various changes. This paper studies the socio-economic and spatial changes in/ changing pattern of retail activity in bashudhara City, Pathapath.

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Departments / Workshop and Lecture Series held at Department of Architecture, DIU

« on: December 13, 2014, 11:50:12 PM »

workshop on "oil color and water color" by Nidalia Islam and
lecture series "what I did next" by Amit Imtiaz

Organized by: Dept of architecture, DIU
It was a cheerful and colorful day for the department. The students participated a day-long hands on workshop on oil color and water color. The department head inaugurated the session with his welcome speech. In his speech the Head focused on the the necessity of using different artistic techniques in presentation. He also gave much importance on sketch in today's computer age presentation. He welcomed the instructor in the Department and thanked for her time.
The instructor is an architect and freelance artist (participated in group exhibition in Different galleries), shared with students about the techniques that can be used by the students to create different textures in painting. At first a short presentation showed students about basics of art. Then she formed groups among the students and guided them to start oil color painting procedures. This session was very interactive and they presented their works to the instructor.
The second session was again performed in group and this time the instructor showed the introduction to water color mainly the wash techniques. The best outcomes from the students were discussed.
The Lecture series is designed to be an ongoing event in the department. Today’s speaker was Imtiaz Ahmed , a 5th year student of CUET, who shared his struggle and experience as 1st batch student in a newly established department in a university. The Q/A session was elongated and spontaneous and participatory. Students questioned about different topics being a student in architecture department and the speaker answered in a very informal way.
So the sharing of ideas and experience is likely to have an impact in the students thought.

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Faculty Forum / Primitive art

« on: December 01, 2014, 11:11:06 AM »

Primitive art
That the aesthetic sense is inherent in most people irrespective of their intellectual standing is clearly shown by a consideration of the art of primitive peoples.


The surviving examples of this prehistoric art of the Palaeolithic period fall into three geographical groups (Franco-Cantabrian, Eastern Spanish and North African), but the most famous cave drawings of animals at Altamira in Spain are the most important.

The representations (usually drawings on the walls of caves) show no attempt at perspectives: the purpose is rather to represent the most expressive aspect of each element in an object- the side view of the foot, for example, being combined in the front view of the eyes.

The art of these primitive peoples is not naturalistic.

Definite abandonment of detail. The details of natural forms are rejected or distorted  in order to suggest the prime significance of the object represented; for example, the body of a bull is elongated to suggest the act of leaping.

It is colored in flat washes differentiated (as between light and dark) in such a way as to emphasize the lines of movement in the animal’s body.

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Departments / Importance of studying children playgrounds spatial features on play behavior

« on: June 18, 2014, 04:23:13 PM »

The impact of playground spatial features on children’s play and social behavior
Spontaneous and unregulated play in neighborhood spaces, particularly in the cities, is increasingly becoming an activity of the past. Parents does not allow their children’s to the neighborhood fields/parks/ streets mainly because of traffic danger, bullying and stranger problem, thinking it is the best for their safety. Children are encouraged to participate in regulated play environments in their homes, friend's homes and commercial “play or recreation” facilities. This type of regulatory practice may help to “protect” children from being exposed to environmental hazards, but has long-term consequences for their social and emotional competence (Tranter and Pawson 2001). When neighborhoods are not supportive of children's needs, children are limited in their capacity to experience and explore their environments and engage in cognitive play and outdoor learning– behaviors that lead to environmental learning.
The school ground is one of the few places where children can interact with their peers in a natural, outdoor environment in an unregulated way. School grounds should be places where children engage in a range of play activities. Play should be fun, active, spontaneous, self-initiated, challenging and linked closely with learning and development. The school ground is the “stage” where children act out, spontaneously and freely, the events that touch their lives.
Due to the shortage of open space in our country utilizing these school ground to its full extent should be prioritized. Research has revealed the way in which children can learn especially through play is strongly influenced by the spatial features of play grounds (Magdalena Czalczynska- Podolska, 2014). In our country school playground are considered as a place of play only, their informal influence in the development of quality education is not considered. The play and social potential of a playground, can influence the children’s quality of education. School grounds have potential as a rich resource for formal learning; they are also outdoor classrooms that can be explored by children outside classroom time. As well as these obvious connections with the outdoor environment, a diverse and well-designed play environment provides an opportunity to develop important lessons on cooperation, ownership, belonging, respect and responsibility. Various school ground should be surveyed focusing on behavioral mapping, interview, analysis of children’s drawing and analyzing what features contribute to the specific activities. Feedback from both children and authorities should be taken to have their ideas on school ground use. This study will contribute in the future playground planning, design and modifying existing playground by providing the feature this research finds out.

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Departments / Sharing ideas of Green Office Building at NSU Department of Architecture

« on: June 18, 2014, 04:17:14 PM »

On June 16,2014 me along with my design team members shared our competition win entry ''Architectural design competition of Multi-storied Green Office Building for RAJUK at Mohakhali, Dhaka’’ organized by IAB (Institute of Architects Bangladesh) with NSU faculty members and students. The design team members are Ar. S.A. Sufian Kushol (lecturer,BUET), Ar. Tasneem Tariq(lecturer,BUET), Ar. Tahajibul Hossain (lecturer,BUET)and Ar. Nahid Iqbal.Out of 45 submission our projects was awarded first by the juror. The project focuses on green and sustainable features to reduce energy consumption in office building. 

The session was very interactive. We presented our ideas on the process of this building design. The project background, green design approach, design features are presented through projection screen. After the presentation both the faculty members and students asked many questions on green building approach, features and highrise design strategy and we answered their questions. We hope to share our ideas in BRAC University very soon.