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The urban cultivation hub
(UMT, Lahore, 2025) MUAZ SAQIB
This research responds to the urgent global food crisis fueled by accelerated urbanization and increasing population, expected to hit 9.2 billion by 2050. Even using 80% of the earth's land for agriculture and 70% of its freshwater, conventional farming is not able to keep up with the rising food demand despite ensuring water scarcity. Urban farming in succession to Vertical farming has been a feasible answer to these problems, providing new and sustainable methods of agricultural production alongside conserving water. This study discusses the development of agricultural practices, highlighting the integration of advanced technologies like hydroponics and vertical farming also offering formal and consumer-friendly areas for the delivery of organic and conventional food improving buyers' experience. It suggests creating an urban cultivation center intended to increase food security, encourage healthier food production, and meet international standards of sustainability while providing adaptable consumer spaces in order to appeal to a greater number of buyers across all categories. The project finishes with a prototype model able to feed local communities and which can be replicated throughout the city. By promoting community participation and innovation in agriculture, this research seeks to create a sustainable model for urban dwelling and minimizing environmental and health effects
Mind valley
(UMT, Lahore, 2022) Simra Sajjad
Have you ever got tired of your hectic, serious routine? Do you want to experience a life that has bliss, and peace, which can relax your mind and soul? Then you have come to the right place. In this thesis report, I have pondered upon providing such a space for people to engage with each other freely, a space where they can come to divert and relax their minds from their daily life hustle. A place where they can learn, interact, be productive and at the same time can relax and connect with nature and their inner self which has been lost due to tough routines, be it a student or a working or non-working adult. A space where they can seek spirituality and combats stigmas without having the fear to be judged.
Hybrid indoor sports complex
(UMT, Lahore, 2025) AHMAD ALTAF
Sports are an essential part of our lives and are globally recognized. Without sports, life lacks vitality. Pakistan is a country where sports are played extensively, but unfortunately, the infrastructure for them is lacking. My aim with this project is to create a hybrid indoor sports complex that will serve as a hub for athletic development and national pride. Currently, Lahore does not have the same level of indoor sports facilities as outdoor ones, which makes this project unique The complex will feature sports like basketball and paddle tennis, among others, and will offer various facilities to cater to different groups, including school children, university students, and professional athletes. It will provide a safe space for everyone to engage in physical activity. This world-class sports complex will enable children to reach international levels, offering the right facilities and environment. Through this project, I aim to promote sports facilities in Pakistan, while fostering community engagement and nations rid
Re development of hamlet into urban amenities
(UMT,Lahore, 2022) Anosh Iqbal
Rural development is critical to a country's economic, social, and environmental viability. Because global poverty is primarily rural, it is critical for poverty elimination. Poverty has subregional and regional manifestations that extend beyond the urban-rural split. Coordinating rural development activities that contribute to sustainable livelihoods at the global, regional, national, and local levels, as appropriate, is vital, and there is significant value to be achieved. Rural development strategies should take into account the remoteness and potential of rural areas, and offer tailored, unique approaches. (1) In the research region, the geographical distribution pattern of rural development potential is concentrated on the central and southern urban development areas, with a steady decrease toward the periphery. Overall, village development potential is balanced, but differences in advantage and development obstacles are observed across villages in the district, and the four sub-dimensions show significant spatial heterogeneity (2) the 38 administrative villages were divided into four types: core planning area, important planning area, general planning area, and basic control area. (3) Differentiated planning contents and methods for various kinds of locations are utilised to construct well-detailed and clearly targeted village plans to support sustainable rural development, with 13.16 percent, 52.63 percent, 23.68 percent, and 10.53 percent, respectively.
Vertical horizons
(UMT, Lahore, 2025) NAMEL MUSHTAQ
When studying the rise of Urban Lahore, we need to shift our urban language from horizontal sprawl to intentional verticality. Vertical Horizons looks at how high-rise mixed-use buildings can grow from several object-oriented towers of high profit, into being community driven contextual uplifts of vertical neighborhoods. This thesis explores the combining of residential, commercial, co-working, and community space, in a single high-rise, that supports social life, sustainability, and shared space in an everyday, post pandemic urban existence. Starting with the critiques of typologies and gleaning design opportunities that constructs an urban space for human encounters, flexible work-life, and environmental consciousness in urban case studies in Pakistan, France, and Germany. The project proposes a 16-story mixed-use tower, where smart technologies, zoning efficiencies, and share gardens create a liveable urban vertical ecosystem. Addressing local identity, passive and service design, and a public realm that is integrated. The final design is data driven as a prototype for how to create future high-rise community in South Asian cities.