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Item ARBORETUM- BRIDGING THE GAP(UMT, Lahore, 2017) SAMANA MAHDIItem CASTLE IN C LOUDS (A Place beyond the Imagination)(UMT, Lahore, 2017) AMMARA MAJEEDIn this era of chaos, unemployment, inflation what should be the role of an architecture student? It is never too hard to bring light, color and play in the buildings we design but that is not the only thing we need to do. What we all need to do is to create something that brings attachment, bondage and emotions with the architecture. It should not just give employment but should be a new charming activity that would motivate, relax, encourage the youth to think beyond reality and come up with new creative ideas. Pakistan needs to create architectural attractions. The only thing we lack is the forum for recreational activities. It not only creates revenues but also gets fame if it is of an international standard. We living in Pakistan soul totally promote our culture. But we also need to bring new ideas regarding architecture to start working in a new direction on which the whole world is moving. Every country has theme parks for which they are famous. The culture of theme parks should also be promoted in Pakistan because we do not have a single proper theme park.Item IMPACT OF LAND USE CONVERSION ON BUILT ENVIRONMENT OF PLANNED NEIGHBORHOODS OF LAHORE (A CASE STUDY OF WAPDA TOWN LAHORE)(UMT, Lahore, 2017) Farah JamilLahore, the city of gardens as the provincial capital of Punjab and the fourteenth most populous city of world have gone through major physical spatial expansion due to continuous population increase. The land use of the city is in continuous transformation due to population increase and is expanding in south and south east directions through planned settlements. Land being an important resource accommodates the expansion and various activities within the residential areas of the city. Wapda town cooperative housing society is a planned public society located in the southern part of Lahore. Presently the situation of the society was not the same 15 years back. Transformation of land use is one of the issues, to be addressed immediately. Increase in land use change in residential areas and formation of main streets as a commercial street greatly affects in terms of increased neighborhood density and overloading the existing infrastructural facilities. This has questioned that how these transformations took place and what the strong factors behind this are. To find the solution to such questions it was therefore essential to analyze the structure and pattern of the land use changes. Neighborhoods are important for their residents; it has significant implications on neighborhood satisfaction which is affected by various factors of the neighborhood built environment. The impacts are usually felt by the people residing in the society. Therefore a correlation exists between the neighborhood built environment and its resident‟s satisfaction. The proposed area of research is the identification of factors causing land use change and their impacts on neighborhood built environment. The study mainly focused on the information obtained through available literature and data collected through physical surveys that enabled to explore the transformation of designated land use pattern of Wapda town cooperative housing III society. It helped in selecting the main roads of Wapda town where maximum number of conversion was seen and identifies the causes of its conversion. A comparative analysis of residential and commercial property users has been done in order to evaluate the overall satisfaction level on physical, social and economic grounds through yeh‟s index of satisfaction. The study of users revealed that overall satisfaction level among residential property users lies in negative range whereas for users of commercial property give it a positive value. This indicates that economically the commercialization has created positive impacts however in this prospect, commercialization is causing detrimental impacts on environmental and social factors of the built environment. The findings suggest that policy makers should enact such laws which can strengthen land use management and maintain quality of life for the residents. Thus reducing the negative and adverse effects of property conversion and causing dissatisfaction among residents. To create a livable environment for the resident‟s, integration of physical, social and economic considerations by proper land use pattern must be maintained. Furthermore government should introduce an investment framework that encourages the building of shopping centers as well as apartments catering both the residential and commercial users. By doing so, they can provide more customized built environments; increasing residents‟ life satisfaction.Item VIRTUOSO ENCLAVE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART AND HI-TECH(UMT, Lahore, 2017) Syed Abdul MateenWe live in a world where everything you touch has infinite possibilities and insurmountable meanings, Yet there seems to be a constant dichotomy within each sphere of dialogue, with each end being a string of contingencies in itself. It is said that architecture, like all art, can and does have its philosophical argument, with each architect holding his own end of the string and pulling ; each school of thought addressing a set of notions and issues that are vital to them. Keeping in mind set patterns of architectural discourse, it would be interesting to observe if architecture could belong to a group of philosophers that negate all inherent meaning. Could then the diverse language of architecture depict the views of a society that is incongruent and incoherent? Looking around the cities of Pakistan, observing architecture, which has grown historically from a montage of borrowed images; it is clear to see that we are victims of situational absurdity. Concrete block after concrete block, glass tower after glass tower, most of our urban environment is not what may be called absurd construction, even Tough they may look it. Instead it would be wise to say that they are thought or unskilled architecture, serving only purposes of function, that too without much sensitivity. For an 'absurd building' (if their exists such a thing) is not one whose functionality is distorted and is incoherent in its visualization but one that has been preconceived as an in congruency within this concrete and glass maze. If the absurd is born of the dichotomy between 'the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world' then by that standard everything is absurd ; for all tangible and intangible situations can be viewed as needs, and all reactions or consequences can be measure by the relativity of their sibation. Neither can be pinpointed, neither can be considered righteous or true. Th. Is view causes all things, including architecture, to lose meaning, hence making all efforts futile and despondent. But can architecture really have no meaning? From the archetypal childhood drawing of the house it is clear that architecture is a symbol of solidarity and comfort. It is viewed as a vessel that carTies a function, which in tum, holds meaning. So if architecture were to have no inherent meaning would it then also have to disobey the laws of functionality? And does this lack of functionally then make the building just a pile of bricks? It is human nature to appropriate space, and it has been observed that the user is able to find a bener suited functionality for a space than an architect viewing his drawings; for lived and shared experience can never equal a preconceived notion. But if absurd architecture were limited to its visual sphere, then that would make it not only shallow and superfluous, it would also take away from the notion that architecture can be layers of juxtaposed expressions. If a building cannot convey the intention of the architect, it is no longer a testament to his philosophy. So for an absurd building to convey its meaninglessness, does it have to, b like the emperor's new clothes