The Urban Filter

Abstract

Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is one of the most densely populated metropolises in the whole world. Surrounded by two major rivers on three sides, Dhaka started to flourish by the river Buriganga in 1608. Due to wild urbanization propagated by the economic growth since the Liberation War in 1971, Bangladesh as well as Dhaka has been facing civic and urban problems like heavy pollution, shortage of livable space, scarcity of clean air and water & so on. To cope with the uncontrolled influx of migrants of outside the city, the continued tendency is to convert the open spaces into buildings & then build upward. This thesis is an exploration of imagining high rises of Dhaka from an environmental & socio-economic aspect that might lead to the genesis of a new typology of tall buildings pertaining to a sustainable tomorrow.