NED Students Propose Environmental Designs for Saddar
Karachi:May 06:Former architecture students of the NED university on Monday presented a comprehensive environmental design (CED) of Saddar Bazaar suggesting its redevelopment for better working and efficiency.
For the past 14 years, the CED project has been a regular feature of study at the department of architecture and planning at the NED university where final eyar students work on an urban subject.
For this year the batch had been divided into four groups to understand the historical, physical, social and economic aspects of Saddar bazaar and its immediate context.
The key objective of this project is to create an overall understanding of the urban environment and the processes through which it had been shaped.
The analytical presentations by the students focused on basic proposals for addressing problems of the area and overcoming those challenges while meeting the needs of the areas and groups targeted in the study.
Meanwhile, the studio project was multi-faceted and attempted to understand the basic realities behind the creation of the urban environment, the ongoing urban metamorphosis and appreciation of diverse fields of studies within architectural education.
The CED project provides a comprehensive development framework based on the historical evolution of the area for its future sustainable growth.
It will follow a linear research and design track with documentation leading to analysis, spatial interventions and policy recommendations.
The project will be tied up conceptually with a larger vision for the area or the city, however, a secondary focus was placed on urban phenomena and the search for new paradigms.
The studio exercise was conducted by Architects Rahat Arsalan, Ravinder Kumar and Noman Ahmed.The news.
