Rethinking commercial complex , Shapla Chottor, Motijheel: a vision to create a flagship project that would demonstrate the economic and social value of building high density structures at major transport nodes

Abstract

The professional community that deals with urban issues, planning and development studies are thinking seriously about the urban issues in Dhaka city. They all think interventionist and revivalist projects on a massive scale in various aspects is required to rescue Dhaka City from its race to self-destruction. This paper will try to establish a form of invention, in typological, morphological and functional dimensions. The basic idea is to integrate the development projects in specific urban areas and merge it with city scale. These development projects can create a connected edifice of the services in the city. The idea came up with very basic analytical functions of what, why, how, where and when. Dhaka city need a sustainable design solution. Rather creating more new projects or function we need to rearrange all these functions. All urban services should be integrated and blend properly to remove the city chaos. These ideas are implemented in the design proposal for the Motijheel CBD area. Which will detailed to illustrate for an integrated development. Also it will develop guidelines, for future developments.