Museum Of And Plants An Urban Breathing Space

Abstract

Decreasing of the greenery is an increasing the issue around the globe, due to multiple reasons including man- made actions and urbanization. Industrial revolution, with the inception of pollution of our environment for all life forms and species, and also the built space. Its causes and effects go proportional to one another and creates a loop covering many fields of science from geography to renewable energy. Lahore with its accelerating development in infrastructure and industries, and outward growth where many forests and farms have been wiped out, leaves less green areas to counter those built structure which consumes energy and destroyed our environment. This can be seen in the last few years as the case of smog occurred more prolonged and frequent. Tree or plant is the basic element which are purifying our environment. Therefore there is important to educate the public about the importance of greenery through experiential and ritual association. The term nature or greenery is very vast term therefore, this project specifically focusing on two parts of plantation one is Indoor plants Museum and second Outdoor trees Museum. Indoor museum base upon indoor architectural space where we cannot plant a tree which purpose have to didactic the user, how green strategies can be used in architectural spaces to accommodate the indoor plants and major focus on air purifying indoor plants. And Outdoor Museum based upon the indigenous trees with poetic depiction of experiential outdoor space with indigenous tree by using the folk stories, mythologies and poetry. And Try to make the sense of place by accommodating the contextual base programms