Muhammad Saif Ali
Thesis Title:
Realigning the Deep Time Continuum of Human Inhabitation; Resensitizing High-density Urban Living through an Arboreal Acupuncture.
Project Title:
A New Habitat
Location:
Sector 32E, Korangi, Karachi
User Group:
Residents of Sector 32E, Korangi, and Everyday Public or Visitors.
In the Anthropocene today, the current habitat of most humans, due to the way human cultural evolution played out, is a dense modern city. This thesis enquires and explores the kind of human habitat required to evolve beyond the Anthropocene: a habitat that sits symbiotically with both the human phenomenological experience of the world as well as the ecology of the Earth. It relies on insights gained from studies of deep history, evolutionary science, and geology to push for a series of architectural strategies required for a new way of building the human habitat. The project explores these strategies in the context of public amenity buildings in the high-density, industrial/residential district of Korangi in Karachi as a prototype for a construction method that could replace the concrete jungles of the future.
Muhammad Saif Ali
Architecture
Thesis Title:
Realigning the Deep Time Continuum of Human Inhabitation; Resensitizing High-density Urban Living through an Arboreal Acupuncture.
Project Title:
A New Habitat
Location:
Sector 32E, Korangi, Karachi
User Group:
Residents of Sector 32E, Korangi, and Everyday Public or Visitors.
In the Anthropocene today, the current habitat of most humans, due to the way human cultural evolution played out, is a dense modern city. This thesis enquires and explores the kind of human habitat required to evolve beyond the Anthropocene: a habitat that sits symbiotically with both the human phenomenological experience of the world as well as the ecology of the Earth. It relies on insights gained from studies of deep history, evolutionary science, and geology to push for a series of architectural strategies required for a new way of building the human habitat. The project explores these strategies in the context of public amenity buildings in the high-density, industrial/residential district of Korangi in Karachi as a prototype for a construction method that could replace the concrete jungles of the future.
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Problem Definition
Insights from the tree as living system
Site, Program and User Criteria
Site and User analysis
Design Intent and Process
Plans and Sections
Exploded Axonometric and Detail
Assembly Hall and Lunch Area
Lower Ground Auditorium and Play Area
Classroom Spillover and Library
Outdoor School Courtyard
Football Field
Union Council
Module Making Workshop
Prayer Hall Spillover
