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Shatotto: Architecture for Green Living (Rafiq Azam)
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.579
Subject(s) - urbanity , apartment , architecture , architectural engineering , engineering , law , sociology , civil engineering , political science , visual arts , art
Rafiq Azam, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has produced interventionist architecture in Dhaka city's unchallenged urbanity where owner‐developer profits tightly dictate the terms of engagement. His designs for apartment buildings are regarded as compelling revisions of given typologies. In his urban projects, Azam has dematerialised the obtrusive and anti‐urban boundary wall that characterises the city with new layerings of gardens, plantings and other architectural fragments such as gardens in the air. His contribution to the ‘greening’ of apartments is original and clearly an achievement in the rigid mathematics of the market. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.