COURSE NUMBER
S22FP007
CREDITS
3
GPA Status
GPA
FEES FOR STUDENTS
Rs. 18,000/-
+GST for non-CEPT students DATES May 23 - Jun 03, 2022 DURATION 12 Days NO. OF STUDENTS 25 OPEN FOR PROFESSIONALS No PREREQUISITES FOR PROFESSIONALS N.A. FEES FOR PROFESSIONALS N.A. PREREQUISITES FOR STUDENTS Open for All LOCATION Bhaktapur city, Nepal EXPENSE Approx. Rs. 24,000/-
+ Travel Expenses STUDENTS DELIVERABLES Presentation, Booklet, Photos, Measured Drawings, sketches, analysis FACULTY OF Planning
+GST for non-CEPT students DATES May 23 - Jun 03, 2022 DURATION 12 Days NO. OF STUDENTS 25 OPEN FOR PROFESSIONALS No PREREQUISITES FOR PROFESSIONALS N.A. FEES FOR PROFESSIONALS N.A. PREREQUISITES FOR STUDENTS Open for All LOCATION Bhaktapur city, Nepal EXPENSE Approx. Rs. 24,000/-
+ Travel Expenses STUDENTS DELIVERABLES Presentation, Booklet, Photos, Measured Drawings, sketches, analysis FACULTY OF Planning
Deciphering the morphology of Bhaktapur (Kathmandu valley), a city of squares
Imran Mansuri
Image source: Google Earth Image
Imran Mansuri Imran has over thirteen years of multidisciplinary teaching and professional work experience in India and New Mexico, the USA in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and historic preservation. Imran was associated with AOS Architects, a progressive Santa Fe architecture, planning, and historic preservation firm where he was working on various projects ranging from LEED designated educational institutions, affordable-housings, religious buildings, private residences, institutions, and Native American Pueblos housing rehabilitation projects. He has been a teaching Migrant Housing Studio at BUD for the last six semesters and is also involved with other institutions teaching and researching issues associated with affordable housing.
Detailed Course Description, Resume & Portfolio link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IHlz8102sEzQGDiD8zAWZxKplEvT4oyx?usp=sharing
This course aims to provide an understanding through decoding the complex and dynamic pattern of layering of physical forms (morphology) of the historic city of Bhaktapur, a city of squares. The form of the city is characterized by the composition of the various complex built (tole, a residential urban sector) and unbuilt (squares) layers by imposition, assimilation, amalgamation, and reinterpretation of values as a result of diverse socio-cultural and religious influences.
In a limited way, the effort is to sensitize the students towards the various building typologies, their relationship to the hierarchy of public squares bounded by streets network, and how certain inherent sets of rules shape the character of the urban sector. The focus of the exercise will be deciphering the various layers associated with the public spaces (ceremonial and residential squares) that are important foci and catalysts of the organization of the overall built environment (morphology) of the core city. The students will develop critical analytical skills through documentation, on-site observations, representation techniques, consideration, reflection, in-class conversation & reading responses.
In a limited way, the effort is to sensitize the students towards the various building typologies, their relationship to the hierarchy of public squares bounded by streets network, and how certain inherent sets of rules shape the character of the urban sector. The focus of the exercise will be deciphering the various layers associated with the public spaces (ceremonial and residential squares) that are important foci and catalysts of the organization of the overall built environment (morphology) of the core city. The students will develop critical analytical skills through documentation, on-site observations, representation techniques, consideration, reflection, in-class conversation & reading responses.