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Contents:
Sand and Mortar: The screen in the city Provocations: Systems for change:
The City and the Screen
On 3rd March 2019, I converted my garage into a non-commercial community cinema. I live in Seaview Township, directly opposite the main public beach strip of Karachi. Less than eight months later, we have screened 34 films, and hosted 3 non-film events, which include a showcase for emerging animators, a spoken word event on mental health, and a multi-genre show focused on sound and digital art.
However, we are more than just an independent cinema: we are a democratic response to the lack of entertainment opportunities for young people in a divisive city where public spaces are limited.
Our mission is to bridge the urban class divide through art. Today Cinema 73 has become organically growing community space where the domestic help of the community’s residents sit beside their employers and enjoy a film with free popcorn on balmy weekend nights. It is a safe space for women, children, and gender non-conforming folks to consume art without the fear of being harassed. It has become a source of artistic dissemination which brings inspired artists, Film-makers, cinephiles, architects, designers, urban dwellers, movie watchers, workers in the informal sector, bored evening spenders and all other interested karachiites, together.
Cinema 73 is a space to fall in love with the salty Karachi breeze. It is an architect’s conversation with his street. Karachiites have shown their true empathetic, modern selves in supporting this venture and I am excited to see what this organically develops into. We hope to make our model sustainable and have pop-up franchises emerge in different neighbourhoods and perhaps eventually in different cities. We want to revolutionise who gets to consume art and where.
A NON COMMERCIAL COMMUNITY CINEMA and PUBLIC SPACE OUT OF A GARAGE IN SEAVIEW TOWNSHIP, IN KARACHI.
Ownership of the:
balmy sea breeze salt humidity corrosion authorities air seafront infrastructures urban traffic art film community
Cinema 73, Community Cinema
Popcorn Vendor
Sea View Community Park
Sea View Township Car Park
Brick and Mortor
Built projects
Bauhaus inspired space for Goethe Institute Karachi
I designed a beach house for a young wealthy couple in Karachi, to pay the bills.
Provocations; Systems for change
Considering the aging population of the UK, and from what was gained from Interaction with the elderly, the project was An elderly individuals dream, a modular apartment block, each Apartment has a detachable ‘Cabinet of Curiosity’ that attaches to a Zeppelin, and goes on Holiday with the individual to sister branches of the Apartment block all over Europe. Upon landing these Cabinets act as Museum displays. This project re-defined the place of the elderly in society. It was a commentary on dreams, and immobility of an elderly individual.
design
holiday machine
photos of diorama//playing with old people
My legs are giving up on me.........
exploded axometric
axonometric of modular apartments
the cabinet of curiosity flies
cabinet of curiosity
fixed apartment module
Asad Kamran 2016
Asad Kamran 2016 postcards
A little more than a haircut
Evolution of culturally significant Publically owned properties.
Category Urban Design Research project
design
Barbershops in Little Jamaica, Toronto have long been places that offer supportive interpersonal connections and are spaces that enable the transmission of culture.
This project is an investigation into the possibility of Barbershops as formal extensions of the public realm, serving to accentuate the informal services provided by barbershops whilst positioning them to becoming recognized community hubs, and places of cultural and artistic significance.
resolve
This design project in its initial phase proposes to tackle the vulnerabilities related to flooding in Belen. Through a nodal system of plugging-in this project attaches services to the neighbourhood as a way of respecting the local vernacular but improving their ways of living through light gestures.
Flooding
Belen, iquitos
System of garbage collection
Wet-works module
Systemic Diagram
showers clean
The drawing is the result of reading the water of the River of Leith in Edinburgh, with the speculation that, examined with care over time, the surface of a river landscape might reveal something of topography, of the invisible subaquatic structures, events and occupants that inhabit and affect the river along its length. Through a studied examination of the river surface, from gestural overdrawing to precise graphic tracing, a river morphology was formed, a three-dimensional river described without its basin as a form almost glacier-like in its complexity. And within this inky mass an interloper was introduced, a brown trout – presently limited in its locus of movement by engineered weirs and dams – but here imagined as a lithe occupant writhing through the architectures of the solid river-scape. design
traceing the surface of water, repeatedly
video stills traced and reproduced as line drawings
studies of movement of trout fish
used 3d softwares to give the water an architectural glacial like quality
Collage renders
collages as site research and conceptual explorations
fish bizarre
The food lab is where robot arms that are functioned by the fish coin operate
Envisioning an Interaction
The customer opens his Fish-coin app. The transaction has been made. The money will arrive in the fisherman’s wallet on his app on his phone.
sniffing my street (snapshots)
space is elusive. When you arrive to a new place, you don’t know what you placed at the centre of many nodes. The centre being you. To orient yourself, Signs, iconography helps, buildings, google maps. But then you attempt to space makes you feel. It is a way of analyzing your emotions.
position in that space. So once you find your footing, once you have using google maps. You stop, and you smell. smell and imagine, what of? What does this smell do to me? Do have to change my cologne, to cologne too strong? Are the whiffs of my neighbourhood going to settle breath of an unfamiliar place? If I cooked at home, will my jacket smell of fry garlic this morning? better take a deep whiff of how my jacket sure smell good.
am trying to understand the way a space makes you feel through its olfactory implications of a space. This is something that can be felt when completely unfamiliar at first and then becomes familiar with time. will try to hence a feeling that describes my particular state in this physical place smells are not entirely informed by the physical smells that smell in the that are evoked and expressed through smells. What smells does the
This library is a library where you don’t have access to books. It instead proposes that you donate the books, allow the books to be precisely scanned and translated into data that is hosted in the data servers above.
The physical book is then burnt in the incinerating tower, which may power a portion of the building.
Understanding the current state of academic institutions like libraries, pairing that with mankind’s current problem of over consumption, this library is a provocative exploration of the state of current academic institutions.
a library without nostalgia
cinematic collages
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