BNU Razia Hassan School of Architecture

14/04/2010

Thesis Concept Film.
The Frame: Closure part II

This is a short supplementary film to support my Undergraduate Architecture thesis concept.
the short film (essentially a trailer at this point) touches on how mediums like film can alter our perception of reality. The site is the Naala, an open sewage canal festering with thick, slimy black water contaminated with human f***s and industrial waste running through the heart of Lahore. Some of the greenest shots in the film are but a few feet away from it. In my thesis, I am arguing that architectural constructs possess the ability to 'frame our reality' or at least, like most art forms 'frame our perception of it' and how, on the basis of that I would go about designing something to plug in, on or next to, the Naala.
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Akber Ali Khan

14/04/2010

Semester 3, 2nd Year Architecture Studio: Project 3
- (Faheem Farooq)

08/04/2010

School Project
4th semester, 2nd project
- Emran Xahyd

Part 1- Image analysis
Part 2- The School programme

08/04/2010

Semester 3, 2nd Year Architecture Studio: Project 3
- Emran Xahyd

Semester 1, 2nd Year Architecture Studio: Project 3

This project was to design a house for an architect-painter couple who were to reside in Lahore. There was a selection of three different site conditions on which the design was to take place:

Option A: 40'x20' (with the 40' side as the facing/s and 20' side blocked from both sides)

Option B: 20'x40' (with the 20' side as the facing/s and the 40' side blocked from both sides)

Option C: A parallelogram site at an angle of 30 degrees which was 20'x40' (with the 20' at an angle as the facing/s and the parallel 40' sides blocked from both sides)

The requirements were to make a living space, a sleeping space, work spaces and roof garden/s in a total constructed area which summed up to be more than 1,000 sq.ft by crafting a model at the 1/4th scale.

04/04/2010

Semester V, Project 1
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Faheem Farooq

Project 1, Semester 5.
Tutor/s: Omar Hassan & Armaghan Ahmad.

This project was assigned in the begginning of the semester to re-evaluate design and drawing skills through the re-designing of residence by taking into consideration, the existing structure and how it could be altered in a more adept manner. An individual programme was set up by each student and the profession of the people already living there were altered according to the individual choice characters preferred by each student.

13/02/2010

Walled City
Semester V, Project 2, Part 1: Analysis
To read my write-up, please visithttp://www.fqstudios.com/ShahiMohallah.pdf
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Faheem Farooq

Project 2, Part 1: Analysis
Semester V,
Tutor/s: Omar Hassan & Armaghan Ahmad.

This project is based in the Walled City area of Lahore which is located around the bounds of the Badshahi Mosque.
There were groups of 4-5 students formed who were given specific sites in the area chosen for study whose master plan is to be developed by combining the individual plan traces taken by each group. Measurements and photographs were taken in the first round of the visit and during the course of the second visit, a plan on the 1/8th scale was developed which is to be also presented by a compostion of photographs taken and in elevation drawing too.
Photographs were also taken and used to be translated to produce drawings which portrayed the essence of what each student learnt from the Walled city.

04/01/2010

by salman asghar (A GATE WAY TO THE OLD CITY)

18/10/2009

Perspective drawing.
Walled city,Lahore.
Pencil on canson sheet (A4).

Hunniah Salman
Architecture Studio V, Semester V.

Project 2, Part 1: Analysis
Semester V,
Tutor/s: Omar Hassan & Armaghan Ahmad.

This project is based in the Walled City area of Lahore which is located around the bounds of the Badshahi Mosque.
There were groups of 4-5 students formed who were given specific sites in the area chosen for study whose master plan is to be developed by combining the individual plan traces taken by each group. Measurements and photographs were taken in the first round of the visit and during the course of the second visit, a plan on the 1/8th scale was developed which is to be also presented by a compostion of photographs taken and in elevation drawing too.
Photographs were also taken and used to be translated to produce drawings which portrayed the essence of what each student learnt from the Walled city.

30/07/2009

Semester 4, 2nd Year Architecture Studio: Project 2
School
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Faheem Farooq

Part 1- Image analysis
Part 2- The School programme

29/07/2009

Inhabitable spaces
Semester 3, 2nd Year Architecture Studio: Project 2
- (SALMAN ASGHAR)

Semester 1, 2nd Year Architecture Studio: Project 2

Project Title: Lifting the Veil; Seeing beyond Appearances

The project started with a selection of five final transformation drawings of size 4x4 from the previous exercise which consisted of abstract model making and their photography which were further transformed into these formatted drawings (which can be viewed in the album named 'Transformation')
The aim was to create an 'inhabitable space' and it was to be built upon the last exploration of observation, analysis and subsequent transformation by which it could serve to mediate between the sky and the earth.

There were four site conditions:
Option A Site on 60 degree slope
Option B Site on 30 degree slope
Option C Site on flat land
Option D Site on stepped land

By a series of study sketches, the selection of site condition was to be done and the space could evolve to be of any form, shape or dimension but was to remain in the given area parameters of 8,000 cubic feet.

29/07/2009

Semester 3, 2nd Year Architecture Studio: Project 3
- (SALMAN ASGHAR)

Semester 1, 2nd Year Architecture Studio: Project 3

This project was to design a house for an architect-painter couple who were to reside in Lahore. There was a selection of three different site conditions on which the design was to take place:

Option A: 40'x20' (with the 40' side as the facing/s and 20' side blocked from both sides)

Option B: 20'x40' (with the 20' side as the facing/s and the 40' side blocked from both sides)

Option C: A parallelogram site at an angle of 30 degrees which was 20'x40' (with the 20' at an angle as the facing/s and the parallel 40' sides blocked from both sides)

The requirements were to make a living space, a sleeping space, work spaces and roof garden/s in a total constructed area which summed up to be more than 1,000 sq.ft by crafting a model at the 1/4th scale.