Journal Articles by Md Rashed Bhuyan
Children’s Geographies, 2021
This paper explores children’s (aged 7–16) outdoor play in terms of location preference, usage pa... more This paper explores children’s (aged 7–16) outdoor play in terms of location preference, usage pattern, and accessibility range of play spaces in three neighbourhoods in Dhaka. Data were collected through a survey of children and their respective parents, interviews with children, and observation of play activities in 21 play spaces. Analytical results reveal diverse geographies of children’s outdoor play across gender, age, family income, urban areas, and length of stay. The preferences for outdoor play and intensity of use of the play spaces were significantly lower among girls compared to boys. The frequency of access to play spaces decreased exponentially with the distance between children’s home and play space (exponent of distance-decay = 0.346 per 100 m). Results add evidence to the everyday geographies of children’s outdoor play and inform urban planners in their efforts to create better play environments for and with children in high-density South Asian cities.
Journal of Population Ageing, 2021
Increasing life expectancy in cities has heightened the urgency to understand how built environme... more Increasing life expectancy in cities has heightened the urgency to understand how built environments affect the various health dimensions of the ageing population. This study explores community-dwelling older adults' (n = 80; aged 52 and above) perceptions of the links between neighbourhood built environment and their physical, social and mental health in Singapore. Content analysis of focus group discussions reveals that Singaporean older adults associate different but overlapping built environment factors with the physical, social and mental dimensions of health. Safety, amenities, pedestrian-friendly spaces, transport infrastructure, and social and public spaces are most frequently identified with older adults' health. In particular, safety and pedestrian-friendly spaces are considered most important to older adults' physical health while safety and amenities are most important for social health, and aesthetics and wayfinding for mental health. These findings underscore the diversities and complexities of everchanging person-environment fit that must be considered while planning, designing and/or retrofitting neighbourhoods and outdoor spaces in high-density Asian cities.
Cities, 2020
This study explores the concept of age-friendly neighbourhood as understood by older adults and k... more This study explores the concept of age-friendly neighbourhood as understood by older adults and key informants (local service providers, professionals and public officials) in Singapore. Data are collected through key in-formant interviews (n = 15) and focus group discussion (n = 80, age 52-82 years) in three study neighbourhoods in Singapore that have relatively high percentages of older populations. Older people and key informants are asked to describe in their own words what an age-friendly neighbourhood means to them. Qualitative content analyses are performed on the interview and discussion data to arrive at a thematic understanding of age-friendly neighbourhood in Singapore. Inclusiveness, social environment, physical environment, sense of place and safety are five key characteristics that participants have used to describe age-friendly neighbourhood. While there are widely established frameworks on age-friendly cities and communities, the findings highlight that context-specific and experiential understandings of age-friendly neighbourhood initiatives are important.
Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2019
Mixed methods research (MMR) is useful for addressing complex and multidisciplinary urban problem... more Mixed methods research (MMR) is useful for addressing complex and multidisciplinary urban problems. This article demonstrates an integrated MMR approach with a novel two-phase exploratory sequential design while studying play, play space, and children's (age 7-15 years) location preference for play in three residential areas in Dhaka. We used directly administered survey and interviews in the first phase to describe play and play space from children's perspective. Informed by the first, we employed GIS-based spatial and statistical analysis in the second phase to study patterns of children's location preference for play. Our article contributes to the methodological literature by combining MMR with urban spatial analysis in children's play environment studies.
Journal Article in Urbanisation, 2020
Children's mobility environment is an ignored topic in discussions of sustainable urbanisation in... more Children's mobility environment is an ignored topic in discussions of sustainable urbanisation in the Global South. This study explores the independent mobility of children from ages 7 to 15 in Dhaka-reportedly the world's densest urban conglomeration. Surveys and interviews of children (n = 308) and their parents were conducted in eight schools in Dhaka, located in three strategically selected residential areas. Children's independent mobility (CIM) was then analysed with reference to relevant themes across social profiles of children. The results depict the current state of CIM in Dhaka: 59 per cent of the children experienced a low degree of CIM from school to home. The degree of CIM varied noticeably across study areas, income groups, age and gender groups. The presence of cars in streets was identified as an important barrier for CIM by both children and parents. These results could inform policymakers, transportation planners and urban advocates focussing on creating an inclusive and child-friendly urban environment.
Contextbd, 2019
In this article, the Author shares part of his research that attempts to understand urban physica... more In this article, the Author shares part of his research that attempts to understand urban physical context with reference to place, path and people . Within this broader framework of place-path-people, his research focus is particularly on ‘play spaces’, ‘pedestrian paths’ and ‘7 to 14 years old children’ respectively. The spatial quality that has been conceptualized to integrate these multidisciplinary topics of study is accessibility. Accessibility is defined as the intensity of possibility of interaction of people in space-time. The urban context of the study is Dhanmondi Residential Area (DRA), a planned residential area in Dhaka, and its surrounding areas.
Contextbd, 2019
The article provides a framework for analyzing physical urban context with reference to three abs... more The article provides a framework for analyzing physical urban context with reference to three abstract elements namely place, path people. The initial part of the article conceptually elaborates the place-path-people framework with reference to urban spatial quality such as scale, diversity and accessibility. It highlights the interconnected and open characters of urban spaces and architectural sites in general. Potential challenges related to the proposed framework are discussed.
Books & Book Chapters by Md Rashed Bhuyan
Handbook of Waterfront Cities and Urbanism, 2022
This chapter showed that the waterfront icons as symbols of national identity and pride are used ... more This chapter showed that the waterfront icons as symbols of national identity and pride are used to fulfill economic imperatives, cultural objectives, and global dreams. Despite such motivations, marginalization of local identity and heritage by dominant global forces prevails.
Handbook of Waterfront Cities and Urbanism, 2022
This study proposes a multidisciplinary methodological framework
for applying both non-participat... more This study proposes a multidisciplinary methodological framework
for applying both non-participatory (observation of available GIS map data and spatial analysis) and participatory (key informant interviews and focus group discussion) methods to understand the spatial (objective) and social (subjective) dimensions of WSU. It focuses on the spatiality of ponds and waterbodies, perceived meaning of WSU, functions of ponds and waterbodies. Emphasis is on peoples’ needs and activities surrounding ponds and waterbodies, socio-spatial contestations, and possible areas of future urban plans and designs in Barisal, Bangladesh.
Sustainability Matters: Asia’s Energy Vol. 2, 2014
This paper focuses on outdoor play-behavior of children (aged 7 to 14) in two selected housing ar... more This paper focuses on outdoor play-behavior of children (aged 7 to 14) in two selected housing areas, Tiong Bahru and Punggol Cove, in Singapore. It begins the discourse with reference to the Child Friendly City (CFC) initia- tives and Article 31(1) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC 1989), of which Singapore is a signatory. Through observa- tional field survey, a structured questionnaire survey of children and their par- ents, followed by short interviews, we collected data on children’s outdoor play. Children’s Outdoor Play (COP) was conceptualized in terms of unstructured outdoor play (UOP), time-spent outdoors (TSO) and children’s independent mobility (CIM). Data collected from the field survey was comparatively ana- lyzed with reference to age, gender and the respondent’s place of residence.
Children’s outdoor play, in terms of natural or unstructured play (such as climbing trees, making their own play equipment etc.), was reported as minimal in the two study areas. The average time-spent-outdoors was found to be only about 1 hour per day for all the children surveyed. In both study areas, children reported that they spent much more time indoors on screenplay than on outdoor playtime. This was true for both school days and holidays. Survey results on children’s independent mobility revealed that the indepen- dent mobility of girls was less than that of boys. A majority of parents also reported that, as children, they had played outdoors more than their children do now. Major factors reported by parents as the cause for reduced incidents of children’s outdoor play were educational pressures followed by presence of cars, and an anxiety about it being unsafe and insecure outdoors. Such data can then help strengthen future planning strategies to ensure that cities are more child-friendly.
Aspirations and Ideas: Designing with Context, 2019
This article focuses on the architecture for special needs1 and highlights three contested and re... more This article focuses on the architecture for special needs1 and highlights three contested and relevant design issues, particularly in the context of Bangladesh. These are: i) critical sensibility for context and user, ii) flexibility in design, and iii) evidence-based design. I employ these issues as guiding principles to introduce the student design projects presented in this section of the book.
AGE-FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING AND DESIGN GUIDELINES: A Singapore Case Study, 2021
The book provides evidence-based research and examples of existing
good practices on health-enabl... more The book provides evidence-based research and examples of existing
good practices on health-enabling, age-friendly neighbourhood
provision. These relate to the planning and design of outdoor spaces
and enabling opportunities for active, healthy ageing. Importantly, our
research prioritises the need to engage with older people when
creating neighbourhood environments that contribute to healthy
ageing in place.
The book and its supplementary toolkits touch on 3 main stages of agefriendly neighbourhood project — planning (environmental audit),
implementation (planning and design guidelines) and evaluation of
progress made (post-implementation review). We hope that these
materials will contribute to the ongoing discourse of how to (re)envision
urban neighbourhoods to enhance health and quality of life as people
age. Needless to say, they do not supersede but support existing
guidelines or regulations to improve everyday neighbourhood
environment for healthy ageing in place.
Co-creation with older people is a central tenet of our research on
ageing urbanism at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities,
Singapore University of Technology and Design. The Centre's Lee Li
Ming Programme in Ageing Urbanism conducts applied research on
built environment and health of ageing population, arguing for a more
integrated environmental, social and spatial approach to identify the
connection between the built environment, health and quality of life
that can inform the design for age-friendly neighbourhoods and
communities.
Design Works by Md Rashed Bhuyan
Project name:
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Client:
Academic module:
Studio Instructors:
Design Team:
Status:
Des... more Project name:
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Design of an Art Gallery for S M SULTAN WORKS
Academic Design Studio Work (2006).
NA
Formal Design Studio L4, T1, BUET
Dr. Nizamuddin Ahmed, Dr. K. Shabbir Ahmed, Dr. Nasreen Hossain, Farhan S. Karim,
Md Rashed Bhuyan (individual project)
Completed (Unbuilt).
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Client:
Academic module:
Studio Instructors:
Design Team:
Status:
Tow... more Project name:
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Towards a Child-Friendly Urban Living Environment
Academic Design Thesis Studio Work (2008).
NA
Thesis Design Studio L5, T2, BUET
Dr. K. Shabbir Ahmed, Farhan S. Karim
Md Rashed Bhuyan (individual project)
Completed (Unbuilt).
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Client:
Academic module:
Studio Instructors:
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Status:
Des... more Project name:
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Status:
Design of a Climate Responsive High-rise Building
Academic Design Studio Work (2005).
NA
Formal Design Studio L4, T1, BUET
Dr K. Shabbir Ahmed, Mahmudul Anwar Riyaad, Md Tarek Haidar
Md Rashed Bhuyan (individual project)
Completed (Unbuilt).
Project name:
Project Type:
Client:
Academic module:
Studio Instructors:
Design Team:
Status:
Des... more Project name:
Project Type:
Client:
Academic module:
Studio Instructors:
Design Team:
Status:
Design of an Art Gallery for S M SULTAN WORKS
Academic Design Studio Work (2005).
NA
Formal Design Studio L4, T1, BUET
Dr K. Shabbir Ahmed, Mahmudul Anwar Riyaad, Md Tarek Haidar
Md Rashed Bhuyan (individual project)
Completed (Unbuilt).
3D digital model and animation study, floor plan, 2011
Project name: Design of UAP City-Campus, Indira Road, Dhaka.
Client: University of Asia Pacific (... more Project name: Design of UAP City-Campus, Indira Road, Dhaka.
Client: University of Asia Pacific (UAP) Foundation.
Architectural Consultant: UAP Design Team
Chief Architect: Professor Architect Shamsul Wares.
Architectural Design Team: Professor Architect Shamsul Wares,
Architect Rashed Bhuyan,
Architect Nawrose Fatemi,
Architect Muhtadin Iqbal.
Completion of Project: Completed (2017)
Project name: Fael Khair Program School-Cum-Shelters Buildings
Project Type: International Archit... more Project name: Fael Khair Program School-Cum-Shelters Buildings
Project Type: International Architectural Design Competition Entry (2009)
Client: Fael Khaer and IDB
Academic module: Urban Design Studio L4, T2
Design Team: Md Rashed Bhuyan
Architect Cyrus Shah
Architect Fahad Mustafiz Titir
Bhuyan, M. R. contribution: Idea and design development, production of architectural drawings, digital 3D models and rendering etc.
Status: Unbuilt
3D paper model, 2D plan, elevation, cross-section, 2004
Project name: Design of Housing for Mixed Income Group
Project Type: Academic Design Studio Work.... more Project name: Design of Housing for Mixed Income Group
Project Type: Academic Design Studio Work.
Client: Green Model Town
Academic module: Housing Design Studio L4, T2, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Studio Instructors: Prof. Meer Mobashsher Ali, Prof. Khaleda Rashid, Nayma Khan, Anisur Rahman
Design Team: Md Rashed Bhuyan
Shajjad Hossain
Alimul Reza
Status: Unbuilt.
Professional Design Works, 2010
Project name: Design of a Vacation House at Savar, Dhaka. 3D model and environmental simulation
... more Project name: Design of a Vacation House at Savar, Dhaka. 3D model and environmental simulation
Architectural Consultant: Aesthetes
Chief Architect: Sheikh Ahsan Ullah Majumder
Architectural Design Team: Sheikh Ahsan Ullah Majumder
Architect Ashraful Alam Ahmed
Architect Asifur Rahman
Architect Rashed Bhuyan.
Completion of Project: Completed (2010)
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Journal Articles by Md Rashed Bhuyan
Books & Book Chapters by Md Rashed Bhuyan
for applying both non-participatory (observation of available GIS map data and spatial analysis) and participatory (key informant interviews and focus group discussion) methods to understand the spatial (objective) and social (subjective) dimensions of WSU. It focuses on the spatiality of ponds and waterbodies, perceived meaning of WSU, functions of ponds and waterbodies. Emphasis is on peoples’ needs and activities surrounding ponds and waterbodies, socio-spatial contestations, and possible areas of future urban plans and designs in Barisal, Bangladesh.
Children’s outdoor play, in terms of natural or unstructured play (such as climbing trees, making their own play equipment etc.), was reported as minimal in the two study areas. The average time-spent-outdoors was found to be only about 1 hour per day for all the children surveyed. In both study areas, children reported that they spent much more time indoors on screenplay than on outdoor playtime. This was true for both school days and holidays. Survey results on children’s independent mobility revealed that the indepen- dent mobility of girls was less than that of boys. A majority of parents also reported that, as children, they had played outdoors more than their children do now. Major factors reported by parents as the cause for reduced incidents of children’s outdoor play were educational pressures followed by presence of cars, and an anxiety about it being unsafe and insecure outdoors. Such data can then help strengthen future planning strategies to ensure that cities are more child-friendly.
good practices on health-enabling, age-friendly neighbourhood
provision. These relate to the planning and design of outdoor spaces
and enabling opportunities for active, healthy ageing. Importantly, our
research prioritises the need to engage with older people when
creating neighbourhood environments that contribute to healthy
ageing in place.
The book and its supplementary toolkits touch on 3 main stages of agefriendly neighbourhood project — planning (environmental audit),
implementation (planning and design guidelines) and evaluation of
progress made (post-implementation review). We hope that these
materials will contribute to the ongoing discourse of how to (re)envision
urban neighbourhoods to enhance health and quality of life as people
age. Needless to say, they do not supersede but support existing
guidelines or regulations to improve everyday neighbourhood
environment for healthy ageing in place.
Co-creation with older people is a central tenet of our research on
ageing urbanism at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities,
Singapore University of Technology and Design. The Centre's Lee Li
Ming Programme in Ageing Urbanism conducts applied research on
built environment and health of ageing population, arguing for a more
integrated environmental, social and spatial approach to identify the
connection between the built environment, health and quality of life
that can inform the design for age-friendly neighbourhoods and
communities.
Design Works by Md Rashed Bhuyan
Project Type:
Client:
Academic module:
Studio Instructors:
Design Team:
Status:
Design of an Art Gallery for S M SULTAN WORKS
Academic Design Studio Work (2006).
NA
Formal Design Studio L4, T1, BUET
Dr. Nizamuddin Ahmed, Dr. K. Shabbir Ahmed, Dr. Nasreen Hossain, Farhan S. Karim,
Md Rashed Bhuyan (individual project)
Completed (Unbuilt).
Project Type:
Client:
Academic module:
Studio Instructors:
Design Team:
Status:
Towards a Child-Friendly Urban Living Environment
Academic Design Thesis Studio Work (2008).
NA
Thesis Design Studio L5, T2, BUET
Dr. K. Shabbir Ahmed, Farhan S. Karim
Md Rashed Bhuyan (individual project)
Completed (Unbuilt).
Project Type:
Client:
Academic module:
Studio Instructors:
Design Team:
Status:
Design of a Climate Responsive High-rise Building
Academic Design Studio Work (2005).
NA
Formal Design Studio L4, T1, BUET
Dr K. Shabbir Ahmed, Mahmudul Anwar Riyaad, Md Tarek Haidar
Md Rashed Bhuyan (individual project)
Completed (Unbuilt).
Project Type:
Client:
Academic module:
Studio Instructors:
Design Team:
Status:
Design of an Art Gallery for S M SULTAN WORKS
Academic Design Studio Work (2005).
NA
Formal Design Studio L4, T1, BUET
Dr K. Shabbir Ahmed, Mahmudul Anwar Riyaad, Md Tarek Haidar
Md Rashed Bhuyan (individual project)
Completed (Unbuilt).
Client: University of Asia Pacific (UAP) Foundation.
Architectural Consultant: UAP Design Team
Chief Architect: Professor Architect Shamsul Wares.
Architectural Design Team: Professor Architect Shamsul Wares,
Architect Rashed Bhuyan,
Architect Nawrose Fatemi,
Architect Muhtadin Iqbal.
Completion of Project: Completed (2017)
Project Type: International Architectural Design Competition Entry (2009)
Client: Fael Khaer and IDB
Academic module: Urban Design Studio L4, T2
Design Team: Md Rashed Bhuyan
Architect Cyrus Shah
Architect Fahad Mustafiz Titir
Bhuyan, M. R. contribution: Idea and design development, production of architectural drawings, digital 3D models and rendering etc.
Status: Unbuilt
Project Type: Academic Design Studio Work.
Client: Green Model Town
Academic module: Housing Design Studio L4, T2, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Studio Instructors: Prof. Meer Mobashsher Ali, Prof. Khaleda Rashid, Nayma Khan, Anisur Rahman
Design Team: Md Rashed Bhuyan
Shajjad Hossain
Alimul Reza
Status: Unbuilt.
Architectural Consultant: Aesthetes
Chief Architect: Sheikh Ahsan Ullah Majumder
Architectural Design Team: Sheikh Ahsan Ullah Majumder
Architect Ashraful Alam Ahmed
Architect Asifur Rahman
Architect Rashed Bhuyan.
Completion of Project: Completed (2010)
for applying both non-participatory (observation of available GIS map data and spatial analysis) and participatory (key informant interviews and focus group discussion) methods to understand the spatial (objective) and social (subjective) dimensions of WSU. It focuses on the spatiality of ponds and waterbodies, perceived meaning of WSU, functions of ponds and waterbodies. Emphasis is on peoples’ needs and activities surrounding ponds and waterbodies, socio-spatial contestations, and possible areas of future urban plans and designs in Barisal, Bangladesh.
Children’s outdoor play, in terms of natural or unstructured play (such as climbing trees, making their own play equipment etc.), was reported as minimal in the two study areas. The average time-spent-outdoors was found to be only about 1 hour per day for all the children surveyed. In both study areas, children reported that they spent much more time indoors on screenplay than on outdoor playtime. This was true for both school days and holidays. Survey results on children’s independent mobility revealed that the indepen- dent mobility of girls was less than that of boys. A majority of parents also reported that, as children, they had played outdoors more than their children do now. Major factors reported by parents as the cause for reduced incidents of children’s outdoor play were educational pressures followed by presence of cars, and an anxiety about it being unsafe and insecure outdoors. Such data can then help strengthen future planning strategies to ensure that cities are more child-friendly.
good practices on health-enabling, age-friendly neighbourhood
provision. These relate to the planning and design of outdoor spaces
and enabling opportunities for active, healthy ageing. Importantly, our
research prioritises the need to engage with older people when
creating neighbourhood environments that contribute to healthy
ageing in place.
The book and its supplementary toolkits touch on 3 main stages of agefriendly neighbourhood project — planning (environmental audit),
implementation (planning and design guidelines) and evaluation of
progress made (post-implementation review). We hope that these
materials will contribute to the ongoing discourse of how to (re)envision
urban neighbourhoods to enhance health and quality of life as people
age. Needless to say, they do not supersede but support existing
guidelines or regulations to improve everyday neighbourhood
environment for healthy ageing in place.
Co-creation with older people is a central tenet of our research on
ageing urbanism at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities,
Singapore University of Technology and Design. The Centre's Lee Li
Ming Programme in Ageing Urbanism conducts applied research on
built environment and health of ageing population, arguing for a more
integrated environmental, social and spatial approach to identify the
connection between the built environment, health and quality of life
that can inform the design for age-friendly neighbourhoods and
communities.
Project Type:
Client:
Academic module:
Studio Instructors:
Design Team:
Status:
Design of an Art Gallery for S M SULTAN WORKS
Academic Design Studio Work (2006).
NA
Formal Design Studio L4, T1, BUET
Dr. Nizamuddin Ahmed, Dr. K. Shabbir Ahmed, Dr. Nasreen Hossain, Farhan S. Karim,
Md Rashed Bhuyan (individual project)
Completed (Unbuilt).
Project Type:
Client:
Academic module:
Studio Instructors:
Design Team:
Status:
Towards a Child-Friendly Urban Living Environment
Academic Design Thesis Studio Work (2008).
NA
Thesis Design Studio L5, T2, BUET
Dr. K. Shabbir Ahmed, Farhan S. Karim
Md Rashed Bhuyan (individual project)
Completed (Unbuilt).
Project Type:
Client:
Academic module:
Studio Instructors:
Design Team:
Status:
Design of a Climate Responsive High-rise Building
Academic Design Studio Work (2005).
NA
Formal Design Studio L4, T1, BUET
Dr K. Shabbir Ahmed, Mahmudul Anwar Riyaad, Md Tarek Haidar
Md Rashed Bhuyan (individual project)
Completed (Unbuilt).
Project Type:
Client:
Academic module:
Studio Instructors:
Design Team:
Status:
Design of an Art Gallery for S M SULTAN WORKS
Academic Design Studio Work (2005).
NA
Formal Design Studio L4, T1, BUET
Dr K. Shabbir Ahmed, Mahmudul Anwar Riyaad, Md Tarek Haidar
Md Rashed Bhuyan (individual project)
Completed (Unbuilt).
Client: University of Asia Pacific (UAP) Foundation.
Architectural Consultant: UAP Design Team
Chief Architect: Professor Architect Shamsul Wares.
Architectural Design Team: Professor Architect Shamsul Wares,
Architect Rashed Bhuyan,
Architect Nawrose Fatemi,
Architect Muhtadin Iqbal.
Completion of Project: Completed (2017)
Project Type: International Architectural Design Competition Entry (2009)
Client: Fael Khaer and IDB
Academic module: Urban Design Studio L4, T2
Design Team: Md Rashed Bhuyan
Architect Cyrus Shah
Architect Fahad Mustafiz Titir
Bhuyan, M. R. contribution: Idea and design development, production of architectural drawings, digital 3D models and rendering etc.
Status: Unbuilt
Project Type: Academic Design Studio Work.
Client: Green Model Town
Academic module: Housing Design Studio L4, T2, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Studio Instructors: Prof. Meer Mobashsher Ali, Prof. Khaleda Rashid, Nayma Khan, Anisur Rahman
Design Team: Md Rashed Bhuyan
Shajjad Hossain
Alimul Reza
Status: Unbuilt.
Architectural Consultant: Aesthetes
Chief Architect: Sheikh Ahsan Ullah Majumder
Architectural Design Team: Sheikh Ahsan Ullah Majumder
Architect Ashraful Alam Ahmed
Architect Asifur Rahman
Architect Rashed Bhuyan.
Completion of Project: Completed (2010)
Client: East-West University
Architectural Consultant: Bashirul Haq Associates
Chief Architect: Architect Bashirul Haq
Architectural Design Team: Architect Bashirul Haq
Architect Munna
Architect Ashiquer Rahman
Architect Subrata Sikder
Architect Rashed Bhuyan
Status: Built. Completed (2016).
Project Type: Academic (Master Planning)
Client: NA
Academic module: Environmental Planning (DE5107), School of Design and environment, National University of Singapore.
Course Instructor: Dr Malonee Lai Lee Choo
Project Description: Area: 42 Ha, Plot Ratio: 1.5 to 2.5, No. of dwelling unit: 3000 to 5000 (mixed income group).
Project Team: Hui Min
Lim Kok Ching
Mallika Naguran
Nidhi Malhotra
Nikhila K N
Md Rashed Bhuyan
Rocky Yulianto
Status: Unbuilt.
Project Type: Academic Design Studio Work (2004).
Client: NA
Academic module: Formal Design Studio L3, T2, BUET
Studio Instructors: Prof. Zebun Nasreen Ahmed, Shamim Ara Hasan, Catherine D Gomes, and Md. Ruhul Amin.
Design Team: Md Rashed Bhuyan (individual project)
Status: Unbuilt.
This presentation explores contemporary urban network analysis (UNA) tools and their background theories with reference to key secondary literatures. Existing state-of-the-art techniques have been revisited. Diverse UNA tools have been categorized based on two considerations: a) the kind of mathematical approaches, matric or topological, these methods adopt in representing urban spaces and b) the ways these tools incorporate social aspects, such as land use distribution, density, accessibility, etc., within their spatial framework. Potential means on how some of these methodological tools can be applied to understand locational distributions and accessibility of play places in the city have been the key background concern of this study.
In this presentation at the Department of Architecture, NUS, on 24th April 2015, I proposed a new approach for analyzing accessibility of play spaces for children. The proposed research intends to study the relationship between accessibility of play spaces and children’s (aged 7 to 14 years) locational preferences for play in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Building on a pilot study, I specifically outlined the research approach, methods, and highlighted the significance of the proposed research.
(Note: Besides presenter's own images, this document contains earlier published images (cited accordingly). I however, did not take any permission to use the published images from their respective publishers -- believing that those images have been used solely for academic purpose. Moreover, the quality of some of the secondary images have been compromised in this document. The viewer is requested to use originally published images (if needed), rather than the ones used in this document.)
Given such complexities exist, in this presentation I will highlight my explorations on two dominant strands of literatures on play: a) those creating a voice for play by seeing it as a significant ‘right’ in a diminished world of (children’s) outdoor play; and those trying to (re) conceptualize the variegated meanings of the cultural phenomena called ‘play’. I will show, by borrowing concepts from earlier theorists-of-play, why it is important to (re) consider both of these strands together while (re) addressing spatial manifestations of play, i.e. playgrounds, in planned urban settings. I will argue that it is not feasible to isolate ‘play’ and ‘playgrounds’ from other interconnected sociocultural and spatial-temporal phenomena. Such explorations might help me to develop a framework for my research involving play, playgrounds and their networks.
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This study asked what could be a potential conceptual framework to evaluate accessibility to outdoors play spaces for children in extremely dense urban context.
Following a case study based mixed method approach; this study first studied the accessibility pattern of a highly dense residential area in Dhaka, Dhanmondi R/A, with specific focus on children’s accessibility to public play spaces. CAP was analyzed following the space syntax model of accessibility. Analytical findings were discussed with reference to the field observational and interview data. By discussing other relevant accessibility measurement models, this paper further developed a conceptual framework to evaluate disaggregate accessibility of play spaces for children in extremely dense urban context. The developed framework proposes a combination of state of the art quantifiable models to measure children’s accessibility to play spaces.
This working paper reasserts the necessity to rethink urban public play spaces by considering place, path and people factors of accessibility. The proposed framework might benefit future researches and urban planning process when the objective is to enhance spatial accessibility to opportunities in highly dense urban living environments.
This paper focuses on the outdoor play behavior of children (aged 7 to 14) in two selected housing areas, Tiong Bahru and Pungol Cove, in Singapore. It begins with reference to the Child Friendly City (CFC) initiatives and article 31(1) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC 1989), of which Singapore is a signatory. Through observational field survey, a structured questionnaire survey of children and their parents, and interviews with children, we collected data on children’s outdoor play and their perspectives on their preferred places in their neighborhoods. The collected data from the field survey was analysed using simple statistical methods.
Children’s outdoor play (COP) in terms of natural or unstructured play (such as climbing trees, making their own play equipment etc.) was reported as minimal in the two study area whereas the average time spent outdoors (TSO) was found to be only about 1 hour per day for all children. In both study areas children reported that they spent much more time indoors on screenplay than outdoor playtime. This was true for both school days and holidays. The study further interprets the reported behavioural findings with the physical elements of the selected housings. Such data can then help develop future planning to ensure that cities are more child-friendly.
This presentation interprets the notion of ‘child-friendliness’ in urban living environment with reference to five selected articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (formulated in 1990 by UNICEF). The study focuses on spatial interpretation of those articles in Dhanmondi Residential Area -- a planned residential area in the urban context of Dhaka.
A mixed method approach have been adopted. Methods include: structured observation, interviews, formal analysis of street network and building typologies, alternative formal study, and visualisation of an alternative urban form. Street network have been analysed through space syntax. With particular emphasis on a redesigned alternative pattern is proposed for the study area that suggests creating identifiable locality, safe access to the available open spaces and initiatives to enhance children's independent mobility in the studied area. The study ends with a hypothetic design-exercise to give a visual imagery of the actionable ideas.
Children from middle and upper middle income group, living primarily in the recently grown apartment complexes are deprived of quality contact with nature, safe mobility, autonomy and their capacityto exploretheirsurrounding.Itisanironythatthepoorerchildrencanenjoythese benefits more than the well of though they ‘enjoy in an unhealthy and unsafe environment’(Marco corsi,2002). This study deals mainly with the middle and upper-midle income group children(aged between 2-11 years) and their surrounding physical environment in Dhanmondi Residential Area, thefirstplannedresidentialareain Dhaka.
Dhanmondi Residential Area was developed as a low density(almost 10 person per acre) high income residential area during 1950s. During the last three decade the area experienced a rapid change in density, land use, building types, traffic pattern etc. Such phenomena had their major repercussions on children.
By environment behavior studies this thesis tries to understand the issue of child friendliness in terms of physical environment based on some selected CRC guidelines. By studying the open space structure of Dhanmondi R/A area, some actionable ideas and respective alternative patterns are suggested.Aspartoftheanalysis, visualsurvey ofthestudyarea,questionnairesurveyinaselected sample area, configurational analysis with ‘space syntax’ and building typology-study based on present by law are performed. At the end, a redesign alternative pattern is proposed for the area to create locality or sense of place. Along with other supportive suggestions this exercise ends with designing a micro scale outdoor green open space (at Road 10a) adjacent to dwelling plots to give a visual imagery of physical environment that is actionable in this area.
Key words:
Child friendly City, Urban living environment, Post development change pattern, Open space structure,SpaceSyntax, Buildingtypology,Alternativepattern
aspect of urban planning practices in
western democratic countries. With the
advent of digital technologies, a myriad of
public participation methodologies and
tools have emerged in the past few
decades ranging from digital survey and
mapping to location-embedded survey
and tracking with smartphones.
Maptionnaire is one such map-based
online survey tool. As in 2019, this tool has
been used by more than 6000 projects in 80
countries in Europe, Australia, New
Zealand and the US.
This article reviews some urban studies
that have used Maptionnaire as a survey
method and provides a commentary on its
potential application particularly in Asian
urban studies involving children and
older adults as participants.
rapidly in Asia. Age-discrimination and social isolation of both older adults and children are growing concerns in Asian cities, where nuclear family units are replacing traditional three-generation households (Thang, 2015). Scholars argue that intergenerational approach in policies, programmes, planning and design can be one of the ways to move towards an age-friendly city (Wong et al. 2018).
Although policies and programmes to foster kinship and intergenerational relationship are emerging in some Asian cities, intergenerational space (IGS) – a contact zone where multiple generations can potentially come together in a number of ways - has received little scholarly attention. This article explores intergenerational space initiatives in two Asian cities, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Although programmes on IGS have increased in scope and magnitude over the past few years in the US and Europe, comprehensive reviews on IGS programmes are limited in circulation (Vanderbeck and Worth, 2015). This article describes the concept of IGS with reference to some case studies in the US and UK.
2. This IEE report has been prepared using a combination of primary and secondary research methods. A site survey was carried out on September 3rd, 2011, under the supervision of Dr. Ho Ha Chew and Mr. Rick Reidinger. Bird species and habitats were the main focus.
3. The scope of this IEE is limited to the TPP and its supporting infrastructure alone; investigations into the environmental impacts of transmission, distribution and fuel transportation are being performed by a separate agency and are not covered in the present study.
4. The main body of this report comprises the baseline, impact study, alternatives, preventative and mitigation measures, economic analysis, an environmental monitoring and management plan (EMMP) and a stakeholder analysis and recommended communication approach.