Apartment Planning and Neighborhood Systems in Asia Urban Forces and Patterns for the Mushroom Growth for Apartments

Abstract

Everyone has a picture in their mind for a perfect home . It is a building type, which is constantly in use; it is inhabited 24 hours a day and 12 months a year. It is a place, which is independent of age factor; people of all age groups live here from the working man, to the school going kid, to the housewife, to a newly married couple, as well as the college going girl. On the other hand a home, which incorporates all kind of activities for example cooking, dinning, sleeping, working, studying, kids playing, to entertaining of guests, watching television, listening to music, washing and bathing as well as storing space. Above all if these is the emotional activity of love and intimacy between married couples, family members etc. Hence a home is a building type, which satisfies a wide range of functions, as well as accommodates its users, which are of varying age groups with different requirements. People from different c lasses, either from a lower income group or a very high-income group, spend almost 50% of their income into making and maintaining his house. Providing psychological pleasing spaces: Home good or poor, has a deep and lasting effect on all of us. First we find a shelter to satisfy our needs. This shelter, in turn affects the way we feel and act. Home is our microenvironment. It is just one part of our total environment; house has a great effect on one's life-style and one's personal development. Whether one lives alone or with other persons, one interacts with house. Ones house affect the way one behaves and feel. At the same time, ones style f living affects ones home. of the city Karachi on M. A. Jinnah Road which is a densely populated area. The solo green space which is the site, is surrounded by concrete monster like buildings. This is a four ac re land full of thirty three huge, well sculptured trees located near the junction of the busiest areas like Saddar, Garden, Eidh Gah and Jubilee. This site was acting as lungs for the surrounding residents. The population within one kilo meter of the site is almost 6,000 people and the residing neighbor belongs to diverse ethnicity. This whole population is apartment dwellers, and these apartments are not very well designed, they are dark, devoid of sunlight and fresh air. In absence of proper sanitation system, and no open space at all for children to p lay, on top of all the balconies open up to the busy main road of M.A Jinnah. The trees present on the site were not ordinary once they were extremely rear, and most of them were half a century old, beautiful and precious. They can never be grown their ever again due to exhausting pollution and over population. In 2009 this site has been completely bulldozed so that it could be replaced by a humongous concrete block. The area is too congested and the residents were in desperate need a breather there. But yet another pair of lungs was brutally destroyed by a developer who chopped off all the trees. Can one continue killing all the trees in Karachi and hope that we will still be left with room to breathe? If we continued this massacre at this rate, we are going to end up living in a dustbowl with concrete high -rise all around and not even a single plant in sight. Architecture of residential unit lack experimentation and research for improvement, the new technology is being avoided to use, since the constructor feels a threat of failure, our society avoids using new systems and techniques. Our job as an architect to educate client and coordinate with engineers, and go beyond designing good space, and encourage new techniques of construction. Circulation: Minimum walking area and maximum provision of views in that walk for the person walking to go from one place to another, presence of pleasant spaces to