URBAN ECOLOGY CENTRE

Abstract

A rising concern within the framework of the natural environment is that of Climate Change in general, and the prevalent insensitivity of the public to the idea in our country, Pakistan. The aim of this thesis is to evoke sensitivity to the issue and use architecture as a tool to form a critique about the relationship we share with the natural environment in our cities. Interviews and talks conducted with Governmental organisations dealing with the Environment as well as the public in general indicate not only an obvious disconnection among the two parties but also ignorance to a problem that deserves top priority in view of our country's vulnerability to it as assessedby the United Nations. This thesis attempts to test how we can build and intervene responsibly in the environment through an architectural specimen that puts environmental sustenance and needs at the same level as ours. In bridgingthe gap between Management and general public, the introduction of a research oriented facet lends this project the quality of beinga valuable teachingtool which simultaneously becomes a model of sustainable intervention in an urban environment.