an exploration of immigrant culture
in-between lauren loosveldt M Arch Graduate Student The Design School Arizona State University
may 2012
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“The urban peripheries, are spaces inscribed with contradictory experiences of transformation, auto constructed growth, marginality, class formation, status ambition, modern consumption, land conflict, residential illegality, violence and citizen mobilization. It is doubtful that world capitalism will transform their urban conditions. For that, they will have to depend on the forces of their own invention.�
j. holston
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w Holston, J. and Caldeira, T. (2008) Urban Peripheries and the Invention of Citizenship (pp 19). Harvard Design Magazine, Spring/Summer No. 1
departure Evidence of man’s instinctual nomadic characteristic has never been in short
supply. In response to their conditions, these migrant populations have honed the valuable utilities of a refined sensitivity to land, animal, and resource availability coupled with a robust innovative spirit when challenged with overwhelming odds for survival. Today 191 million people count themselves as immigrants constituting over 3% of the world’s population .1 Immigrant populations evolve within their host countries drawing upon their unique capacity for adaptability, ingenuity, and the value of human connections to overcome complex and layered conditions of survival. These instincts are rooted deep cultural rituals and the livelihood. This thesis will focus on the exploration of one such immigrant culture, the Bangladeshi American. For the immigrants of Bangladesh conditions of life within temporary, unclean and often hostile realm of the urban slums or the informal city have prepared them with the prerequisite training for surviving life in-between.
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Recent global conditions have reintroduced the importance of this immigrant migration. The ebb and flow of immigrant populations infuse the city with new social order, patterns and conditions re-defining a place through a diverse palette of ethnicities. This is the reality of our complex global society in which threads society must be woven together or be faced with the consequence of our disregard as conflict and disparate populations. Often outliers on the periphery of society, minority ethnic groups coalesce into ethnic enclaves becoming vibrant and robust centers. With a greater importance placed on the globalization and mobility of migrant populations, we are at danger of minimizing a large contributor to our urban fabric and greater still; miss the opportunity to be informed by their ingenuity.
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United Nation, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Probabilistic Projections 2011
Architecture exists as an extension of the public -a tool to disturb, merge, and transform the convention. In Between explores the conditions of disparate immigrant populations in Chandler, Arizona utilizing the Bangladeshi American as an entry point into a broader demographic. The stage is set as a flex purpose fabric incorporating: gather, movement, and exchange into an architectural event of the everyday. The space is re characterized through localized nodes of interaction where the diversity of the
whole can be respected and celebrated. Connections extend beyond the site to vital neighborhood and emerging institutions to reinforce values of community and identity.
dhaka bangladesh At 30,000 ft you can begin to grasp the nature of the informal city. Today over 158 million people live in bangladesh , make it the 7th most populated in the world.
statement of intent Conditions represent a foundation for response. Immigrant populations come
to terms with a complex variety of conditions with which response is not only necessary but unavoidable. Bangladesh offers conditions of the extreme within the informal city: extreme poverty, density, environmental degradation, famine and disease. Add to this the most significant reality of global climate change the world has yet to understand and Bangladeshi Americans become a relevant case study of adaptation, transformation, invention and identity. Socially and culturally immigrants face the nature of in-between in which home is distant and undefined. These conditions demonstrate the expansive role immigration will have for those nations willing or unwilling to embrace their urban refugees. For those who have the resources and ability, immigration appears to represent freedom and an opportunity for prosperity for future generations. The illusion is that the conditions of despair are escapable. However, conditions are not avoidable; they transform into new layers of identity crisis, separation from stabilizing connections, and the difficulties of providing for a family within a foreign economy. Bangladeshi Americans experience the ambiguity of the inbetween and symptoms of the migration condition.
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The proposal for this capstone project is to explore the hybrid nature of Bangladeshi immigrant culture in which people are challenged with the conditions of assimilation and a yearning to distinguish their heritage and beliefs as a minority population. Social scientists have for years developed and redefined theories pertaining to immigration. A recent development has been the definition of transformative integration in which a wider context of socio-cultural, political and economic issues greatly affect notions of identity, citizenship, health and well being for migrants .3 This thesis project is an exploration of Bangladeshi immigrant culture such that personal accounts, theory and policy will demonstrate how the conditions of informal city create a catalyst for transformative integration within our cities. 3
Farid Ahamed, “Migration Aspirations and their Transformative Effects on the Integration of Bangladeshi Migrants in the UK,� CRASSH (2012), http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
network This sketch of relationships guided me through my journey to Bangladesh. The establish connections remain strong and influence my research today.
“In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody.�
r. w. emerson
motive There is no surprise that world’s most densely populated country with over 1,030
people per sq. km thrives within the informal city . A nation of 158 million people, Bangladesh represents the 7th most populated country in the world where half of the population struggles to survive below the poverty line.4 Walking city center, there is an overwhelming feeling the all 158 million have been dropped in Dhaka. 5 In this environment people of the informal dominate the landscape and create the predominant character of the city and the public space. Here few things can be taken for granted and all things are in a constant state of transformation. Market, habitat, waste and prayer are all conducted simultaneously and in communion. It is this highly sensory driven and consummate renewal process which defines the informal city. Bangladesh is a beautifully complex network of nature and humanity. I have vivid memories of the intensity of the streets in Dhaka which felt to me like life photographed in extended exposure where movement is captured as fluid energy across the landscape. Far beyond the city limits within the southern Sundarban Forest movement slowed, both daily life and the landscape appeared to be timeless as if undisturbed for centuries. The dichotomous relationship of two unequivocal realities was and is a potent memory.
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My motive for exploring Bangladeshi American culture is entirely selfish. I fell in love with Bangladesh, a country often forgotten and for many unidentifiable, in 2010 after receiving the Sean Murphy Prize. Little did I know that this once-in-alifetime opportunity would become something that would provoke reverberations far beyond my overburdened SD cards and evolve into a personal theory on practice. From my own journey architectural practice became a pledge to the people to utilize architectural form as a tool for expressing their most personal needs and aspirations in honest reflection of
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their culture and identity. The people of Bangladesh so seduced my levels of thinking and perspective in life that I was overwhelmed with the responsibility to pay it forward. This exploration and presentation of Bangladeshi people and their informal cities is in full gratitude to the invaluable lessons they have taught me and which I now hope to teach others.
8,220 mi
exchange
educate
gather
culture, history and religion are handed down person to person in a ritual of oral education.
discussion, debate, and leisure occur in collected gatherings mobile, accessible, and always local - the market is a vibrant amongst friends and strangers. expression of the everyday.
values: witness to the inherent cultural identity of the bangladeshi people, values of education, gather, and exchange became a driving force of the final solution.
exchange: hundreds of vendors mobilize at the market scene everyday. a network of poles are tethered together to create a defined shop and display goods. the flexibility of the market continually redefines the experience from day-to-day.
the street: occupied by car, transit, people, animals, and market the street is a performance space for the everyday - temporal and alive.
slowness: reprieve from all things. peace is found in silent reflection amongst the beauty of nature.
landscape: the intensity of natural forces controls the livelihood of bangladeshis.
case studies . built Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America ASU Professor at the School of Social Transformation, Wei Li has been an important part in the development of my thesis. Wei Li has researched and analyzed immigrant studies and trends since 1991 and has published several scholarly journals and authored a book entitled Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America in 2009. Wei Li coined the term “Ethnoburb,” as multiethnic communities in which one ethnic minority group has a significant concentration representing the new ethnic urban but does not necessarily constitute a majority.6 Li’s exploration of several case studies including California’s San Gabriel Valley demonstrates the need for ethnic enclaves to been understood and appreciated as an integral part of mainstream American society from both social and spatial perspectives. Li explores the process and influences of ethnoburb formations and the barriers and racial dimensions which hinder their growth.
National policy on immigration is an obvious reflection on how a single country values the ethnic diversity of its population. Canada and Australia are clear examples of how policy can not only inform and welcome diversity but also establish a foundation for transformative immigration in which both the host country and immigrant population benefit from the process. 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09
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I have had the pleasure of discussing these factors and my research wit Wei Li in detail. She has taken a specific interest in my work and has agreed to become a committee member assisting as the thesis evolves.
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Wei Li, Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America, (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009), pp. 14.
informal caracas think tank investigated the informal city of Caracas, proposing ‘urban acupuncture’ to improve upon the infrastructure without damage to its innate qualities.
case studies . built Informal City: Caracas Case “We invite you all to come to Caracas and work with us here in the barrios7.” This was the invitation extended to ten international interdisciplinary teams in 2002. For collaborative teams of architects, urbanists, sociologist, ethnologist, writers and photographers the barrios of Caracas Venezuela became ground zero for a collective study on the “informal city. ”8 These groups would dive into a study of the social and cultural processes and interaction of the Caracas to understand the increasing importance they played in within the urban fabric. Later Kristin Feireiss, a member of the team would reflect on Henery Lefebvre’s words, “the right to the city” in which the city defines a place for confrontation and integration of all populations. This “right to the city”, which cannot be dictated from above but must develop from below, is steadily acquiring growing importance in the light of the changing relationship between public space and society that results from the increase in social, cultural and ethnic differentiation.” 9
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Caracas became a pilot project analyzing the complexities and diversities which create unique forms of public entity and robust connections between ethnicities and social classes within the informal city. The resounding message from this case study is the danger we face if a failure to understand and appreciate the capacity of the informal. Architectural theory such as Archigram’s Plug in City have shown that our addiction to classifying and defining a rationale and system in design directly undermines the innovation and adaptation which the informal generates.
case studies . narrative It became clear to me through my research that one of the challenges I will face is my capacity to know, sense and understand the immigrant culture as an outsider. I am aware that I am not, nor do I claim to be, an immigrant or a Bangladeshi for that matter. This however is the nature of the architectural profession in which we utilize our unique capability to synthesize dynamic and complex problems from the outside looking in. My method therefore to develop a deep understanding is through a network of dialogue. Stemming from my travels to Bangladesh I have had the opportunity to meet and become friends with a number of Bangladeshi immigrants. Since then they have agreed to share with me their stories of immigration to America. I hope to capture their stories and the stories of many others who will become a part of a network informing the design process.
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Rafique Islam: During my research and travel to Bangladesh, Rafique Islam became a very good friend of mine. Rafique was critical in my understanding of Bengali culture and history. I have recorded his story of migration to the United States as the first narrative to inform my thesis. The statements below are the beginning of my journal recording the accounts Bangladeshi Americans and their migrant narratives.
In 1973 after Rafique had no option but to leave Dhaka feeling that he could no longer accept the corruption both within the education system politically that held him back from succeeding in life. Rafique recalled his desperation to leave and his hesitancy to go,“I did not want to go to America. I did not think America as healthy and back then, no one liked America.” Eventually drawn to Dallas because of his brother’s plea for help, Rafique moved with $250 to his name to support his brother’s desperate attempt to renew his work visa. He recalled his first reactions to the city, “I was disappointed that the corruption I had escaped only followed me to Dallas in the form of discrimination.”Rfique recalled that after meeting with a landlord to file for a housing application he was told that the apartment he had just toured was no longer available. Later Rafique learned that the apartment had been vacant for weeks before finally being rented to a single Caucasian woman. “I was shocked and furious.”
“Thus the urban peripheries,
are spaces inscribed with contradictory experiences of transformation, auto constructed growth, marginality, class formation, status ambition, modern consumption, land conflict, residential illegality, violence and citizen mobilization. It is doubtful that world capitalism will transform their urban conditions. For that, they will have to depend on the forces of their own invention.
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The following day Rafique filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the housing agency when at the time it was uncommon for minorities to file a suit for discrimination. “I was pressured by the city not to file and was told I would never win.�Within several months Rafique’s case had been elevated to a federal case and eventually the court rewarded him with the settlement. The greater lesson he had learned was that his escape from Dhaka did not leave behind the rejection he felt at home and that now his identity and life were part of the ambiguous in-between, far from home and nowhere at all.
1969 ankara. turkey
middle eastern technical univ. bachelor of architecture (3 years)
1979 mesa. arizona
established sixty first place architects
it was dallas in 1973 with $22 in my pocket. what did i have to loose. when faced with racial discrimination, rafique sued and became the first in dallas to take his case the federal courts and win.
1972 oslo. norway
univ. of oslo advanced architecture
1955 dhaka. bangladesh
dhaka college univ. of engineering and technology bachelor of architecture (2 years)
rafique islam
1973 dallas. texas
obtained worker’s visa as an architect
1972 munich. germany worked for the munich olympics
1949 west bengal. india
born and raised to age 5
west bengal inda dhaka bangladesh
mesa arizona
2005 chandler. arizona hired at intel
after attaining an migrant worker status in toronto, shahidul could only find work on a chicken farm. His promise to himself and his family was a better way of life.
2002 montreal. canada univ. of montreal
master of electrical engineering
shahidul akond
i should not belong to these people.
2000 toronto. canada
obtained worker’s visa
inda dhaka bangladesh
toronto canada montreal canada
chandler arizona
1989 dhaka. bangladesh
born and raised bangladesh univ. of engineering technology
in bangladesh family was always first, playing a heavy hand in everything...here my career is first then family and the two never interfere with one another.
giser ali sultana akhter
2008 chandler. arizona
1980 dhaka. bangladesh
2005 tempe. arizona
1982 jessore. bangladesh
2011 chandler. arizona
2000 dhaka. bangladesh
bangladesh univ. of engineering and technology electrical engineer
chandler arizona
after obtaining a diversity visa lipi proclaimed,
lipi
obtained diversity visa
born and raised
after obtaining a diversity visa lipi proclaimed,
i am free, finally free!
i am free, finally free!
dhaka bangladesh
edem college political science
JANUARY
week 01
important dates Friday 6th. first day of classes contact network rafique islam wei li shahid akond create schedule review w/ chair project description what is your thesis? read ethnoburbs prepare for meeting with wei site analysis people place environment movement/silence conceptual design design the complete project!
week 02
important dates Wednesday 11th. meeting w/ chair meeting/interview rafique islam wei li shahid akond city of chandler introduce thesis. establish contact obtain site pertinent information refine outline what is your thesis? theoretical construct research define site analysis in-depth site analysis. final project attitude and ideas. qualitative and quantitative. major connections. documentation style.
visualizing your emerging project 5 ways everyday m. underwood
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develop a graphic presentation of ideas; images/movie mapping interview factual research demographics rituals projections conceptual design make a commitment. first attempt to place your project. final project attitude, ideas, site and program. sketch form. drawn and or modeled at a scale reasonable to your site. sketch.sketch.test.sketch. model ideas diagram concepts
JANUARY
week 03
important dates Wednesday 18th. meeting w/ chair Wednesday 18th. meeting with Prof Hejduk Friday 20th. review #1 what is the thesis of thesis project handout your project? immigration policy/time line narratives what research are you doing to help you answer these questions and make your argument?
case studies ethnoburb policy domestic/foreign committee members bangladeshi culture comparison to chandler architectural comparison of elements
what is the impact implications of social unrest. service to significance of your multiple “publics� project on the larger disciplines? print presentation review present week 04
important dates Wednesday 25th. meeting w/ chair connections environment publics analysis of needs goals facts wants concepts switch media! envision it 5 different ways! concept 1 concept 2 concept 3 multiple ideas. multiple media. multiple tests reflect on critique. synthesize solutions
logbooks, the bible to your project j. kane
construction materials programmatic sq ft requirements facade development form scales. 1:100, 1:10, 1:1 develop written argument and development of design proposal. submit draft to committee.
FEBRUARY week 05
important dates Wednesday 1st. meeting w/ chair Wednesday 1st. revised project summary due project summary revise and complete for submission site analysis constant and persistent analysis of the site. envision conceptual design and be critical of its strengths and weaknesses. test results. program analysis of needs. prepare specific program needs. assign uses and crossover. designate square footages. test results. diagram program uses to scale in block form. create multiple design options and compare. prepare these ideas for discussion with committee members.
just because it is drawn in the computer, don’t mean it is designed. f. gehry
schematic design switch media! envision it 5 different ways! model. sketch. refine concept 1 concept 2 multiple ideas. multiple media. multiple tests reflect on critique. synthesize solutions construction materials programmatic sq ft requirements form scales. details to the big picture
week 06
important dates Wednesday 8th. review #2 site analysis refine site analysis to developed conceptual design. respond to initial critique through evolution of design thinking and presentation of ideas. program define program assign sf defend proposal with factual information mission goals design developement prepare multiples scales of concept 1 2 model. sketch. refine prepare response project argument scope of ideas ramifications of issues raised additional methods for further design thesis book develop written argument and development of design proposal.
FEBRUARY week 07
important dates Wednesday 13th. meeting w/ chair site analysis refine site analysis to developed conceptual design. respond to initial critique through evolution of design thinking and presentation of ideas. program define program assign sf defend proposal with factual information mission goals model. sketch. refine prepare multiples scales of concept 1 project narrative what is the story? design development big picture scheme and detail multiple ideas. multiple media. multiple tests reflect on critique. synthesize solutions construction materials programmatic sq ft requirements facade development form
week 08
important dates Wednesday 22nd. meeting w/ chair Monday / Friday 20th/24th. peer group pin site analysis refine site analysis to developed conceptual design. respond to initial critique through evolution of design thinking and presentation of ideas.
Audentes fortuna iuvat virgil
design development big picture scheme and detail multiple ideas. multiple media. multiple tests reflect on critique. synthesize solutions construction materials programmatic sq ft requirements facade development form thesis book develop written argument and development of design proposal. submit draft to committee. half way point final review is eight weeks away. 5 weeks from now design finishes. 3 weeks from now pass/fail review #3
MARCH
week 09
The strength of a good design lies in ourselves and in our ability to perceive the world with both emotion and reason. A good architectural design is sensuous. A good architectural design is intelligent. p. zumthor
important dates Wednesday 29th. meeting w/ chair meeting sign up for meeting with dr hejduk site analysis refine site analysis to developed conceptual design. respond to initial critique through evolution of design thinking and presentation of ideas. comprehensive construction materials construction programmatic sq ft requirements documentation facade development form scales; 1:100, 1:10, 1:1 thesis book develop written argument and development of design proposal.
week 10
important dates Tuesday 7th. first draft of thesis book due Wednesday 7th. meeting w/ chair thesis book refine comprehensive construction materials construction programmatic sq ft requirements documentation facade development form drawings at multiple scales to demonstrate transition of concept through each level of thought
week 11
important dates Monday 12th. review #3 Wednesday 7th. meeting w/ chair comprehensive construction materials construction programmatic sq ft requirements documentation facade development form drawings at multiple scales to demonstrate transition of concept through each level of thought
week 12
important dates Spring Break thesis book write! design develop!
MARCH
week 13
important dates Wednesday 28th. meeting w/ chair comprehensive design should be complete at this stage. design refining the presentation. defining the attitude and supporting all decisions through presentation are now the focus.
APRIL
week 14
important dates Monday / Friday 2nd/6th. peer group pin up Wednesday 4th. meeting w/ chair
week 15
important dates Wednesday 4th. meeting w/ chair Friday 13th. review #4
week 16
important dates Wednesday 18th. meeting w/ chair
week 17
important dates Tuesday 24th. final review Friday 27th. all documentation due
methodology The dynamics of immigrant culture are complex. Solutions to this challenge
require a multifaceted approach and understanding of external influences with an elevated sensitivity to the human element. From rigorous study of social theory, immigrant policy (foreign and domestic), narrative case studies, mapping and architectural typology studies, I intend to develop a well-rounded hybrid thesis and capstone project. This thesis will be a product of research incorporating a written component while simultaneously extending the findings through an applied project. This thesis will explore the intricacies of both social and architectural theory and in its conclusion, frame an architectural synthesis.
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dr chandler 1887
chandler township 1917. first golf course
1910
chandler high retreat to cotton fields
inagural FFA club
11,000,000 8,000,000 5,000,000 1,000,000
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1885
naturalization law congress adopts uniform rules so that any free white person could apply for citizenship after two years in residency
chinese exclusion act first federal immigration law suspended Chinese immigration for 10 years and barred Chinese in U.S. from citizenship.
contract labor law
unlawful to import unskilled aliens from overseas as laborers. regulations did not pertain to those crossing a land border.
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15% of total population is foreign born.
1905 chinese exclusion act renewed indefinitely
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immigration act provided for literacy tests for those over 16 and established an “asiatic barred zone” which barred all immigrants from asia.
quota act limited immigrants to 3% of each nationality present in the U.S. in 1910. this cut southern and eastern european immigrants to less than 1/4 of those in U.S. before WWI. asians still barred; no limits on western hemisphere.
ETHNICITY PLURALISM
1943 chinese exclusion act repealed
in the name of unity among allies, the chinese exclusion laws were repealed and china’s quota was set at a token 105 immigrants annually.
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1952
displaced persons act allowed 205,000 refugees over two years admitted as quota immigrants. technical provisions discriminated against catholics and jews which were later dropped in 1953. 205,000 refugees were accepted as nonquota immigrants.
immigration nationality eliminated race as a bar to immigration or citizenship japan’s quota was set at 185 annually, china remained at 105. northern and western europe’s quota was placed at 85% of all immigrants.
2001
U.S. A. patriot act amended the immigration and nationality act to broaden the scope of aliens ineligible for admission or deportable due to terrorist activities.
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The architectural exploration will be a response to the needs of the Bangladeshi and Chandler residents. The project will not isolate the needs of the Bangladeshi community but rather understand how patterns of ritual, conflict and economy can collide and merge to form nodes within the public realm. The dynamic nature of the informal city inherent to Bangladesh culture is a transformative case study to inform the antithesis condition the highly systematized Chandler Arizona. From a multi-layered analysis comes a comparison of two disparate conditions in which the architectural solutions becomes the synthesis where formal and informal collide. The applied project will be a study in non-traditional public space attempting to articulate Lefebvre’s “right to the city.�10 Confrontation and integration therefore will be the tools for which establishing modes transformative integration is a goal. Design precepts will be established as a rubric to analyze the success to which the project provides opportunity for identity and transitional integration of Bangladeshi Americans into the Chandler community as a valued and unique entity of the whole. Likewise the resolve will be tested by the way in which ethnic weaving is mutually beneficial to both the migrant population and the host community.
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program it will meet the needs of... Bangladeshi Americans
Chandler Community
Global Commons
Public Space
Private Space
with the goal of... transformative integration and awareness of the Chandler community history and American values. promoting awareness and education of the Bangladeshi immigrant culture as a celebration of each persons individual merit.
identify transferable solutions for responding to and embracing immigrant populations.
framing and blending unique cultural differences amongst Chandler community members and Bangladeshi immigrants. facilitate and improve the daily lives for the Bangladeshi family.
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singh nursery multi-flex sports field soft parking valley metro station
singh nursery multi-flex sports field soft parking
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singh nursery multi-flex sports field soft parking valley metro station asu chandler campus parking singh farm stables
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singh nursery multi-flex sports field soft parking valley metro station asu chandler campus parking singh farm stables live/work pathway development community farm/stable singh farms restaurant/cafe cloud structures light rail connection
singh nursery multi-flex sports field soft parking valley metro station asu chandler campus buildings asu chandler campus parking singh farm stables
03 singh nursery multi-flex sports field soft parking valley metro station asu chandler campus buildings asu chandler campus parking singh farm stables live/work pathway development light rail facilities
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singh nursery multi-flex sports field soft parking valley metro station asu chandler campus buildings asu chandler campus parking singh farm stables live/work pathway development light rail facilities residential apartments retail
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United Nation, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Probabilistic Projections 2011
Phase 01 site plan
scale: 1/64” = 1’ - 0” 15 32
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valley metro bus station
informal grass field start-up cricket + soccer field
non-structured seating
street side parking
Phase 02 site plan
scale: 1/64” = 1’ - 0” 15 32
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light rail connection north and south
non-structured seating
initial parking
connection to greater chandler pathways + municipal services
Phase 03 site plan scale: 1/64” = 1’ - 0” 15 32
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non-structured seating
shade infrastructure partially developed columns erected and shade sails installed
extended lanscape
south garden planted
Phase 04 site plan scale: 1/64� = 1’ - 0� 15 32
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basketball court parking
stormwater recovery installed serving flush fixtures + garden soccer field + cricket field fully developed for year-round play arena seating extended family + standard seating shade infrastructure fully developed thin film pv system connected panel system infilled
compelete parking build out - 304 spaces
south garden full growth pathways + gathering areas expanded
garden + nursery singh farms. scottsdale, arizona modeled after singh farms gardens in scottsdale, arizona, the site includes 10 acres phased to evolve as chandler’s first community garden and nursery. a connection to the bangladeshi culture can be traced from the fundamental concepts of developing a site - dig. build. plant.
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flex infrastructure new market: dhaka, bangladesh hundreds of vendors mobilize at the market scene everyday. a network of poles are tethered together to create a defined shop and display goods. the flexibility of the market continually redefines the experience.
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which is most necessary, shade or event? which comes first? the shade infrastructure supports the event yet creates it’s own program and interaction by design. versitlie shade vendors in chandler can check-out portable power poles providing low voltage power, shade and display for their valued goods. setup could provide any number of configurations within a network of connector location around the campus.
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new market: dhaka, bangladesh hundreds of vendors mobilize at the market scene everyday. a network of poles are tethered together to create a defined shop and display goods. the flexibility of the market continually redefines the experience from day-to-day.
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bibliography Published: Ahamed, Farid. “Migration Aspirations and their Transformative 01 Effects on the Integration of Bangladeshi Migrants in the UK.� CRASSH . (2012). http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk Professor Ahmed speaks in depth of transformative integration and specifically the Bangladesh culture. His work has motivated a means for identifying unique qualities within the Bangladesh culture and finding the potential to cultural awareness to act as a media for transformative integration.
02 ASU Applied Research Collaborative. (2009). Game On: Navajo Nation. The ASU ARC has provided insight to the methodology and rigor required to understand and synthesize complex problems relating to cultural tides.
03 Brillembourg, A., K. Feireiss, and H. Klumpner. Informal City: Caracas Case. New York: Prestel Publishing , 2005.
Caracas Venezula is a critical pilot project wherein a diverse group of scholars merged to analyze the complexities and diversities that exist within the informal city.
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Mas Context, “Build Simply:South of the Border.” Last modified June 6, 2011. Accessed November 20, 2011. http://www.mascontext.com/10-conflictsummer-11/build-simply-south-of-the-border/. An article written by Mas Context provided further insight to the work of Urban Think Tank. Their analysis guided my own reaction to the text Informal City specifically in understanding the process by which the informal was studied.
09 United Nations, “World Population Prospect, the 2010 Revision.” Last modified October, 26, 2011. Accessed November 20, 2011. http://esa.un.org/ unpd/wpp/P-WPP/htm/PWPP_Total-Population.htm. The statistics given by the United Nation founded the insight of the scholarly articles I had been reading with hard facts. The ability to project and make assessments about immigration was largely driven by information given on the UN website. Li, Wei. Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America. 10 Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009.
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Wei Li’s book, Ethnoburb is an immensely important resource for my thesis. Her research has given me insight to the socio-cultural and political aspects which drive immigration trends. Her book documents a number of case studies in which she describes the ethnoburbs through a series of developing stages.
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Yucel, S., (2003). The Routes: Cultural Identity and Architecture of Turkey. Arizona
This PhD dissertation was an intial resource in understanding how culture reflect in architecture. It was in reading the work of Mrs. Yucel that I recognized the importance of Identity within architecture.
co-chairs max underwood & thomas morton committee
wei li rafique islam david delatorre