Focusing Brick by Brick from Micro Level Material to Macro Level City Morphology: Green Healthy Brick Design

摘要

This paper intends to identify the chronology of compact city plan in Pakistan, where the grid is used to overlap the mixed used settlements. Theoretically there is little evidence that axial approaches are more accurate due to the module of the brick which is laid out in straight line for walls as hypothesized in the Harappa civilization, instead the square rectangular blocks appearing at Harappa. However, no study has combined the method accurately that the raw houses are constructed and streets are formulated at Harappa rectangular because they are based on the grid pattern due to its unit basic component brick proportion system. The grid iron is the negative space similar to mortar; the wall gives a grid pattern in elevation or Y-axis, where as the grid iron is on X-axis on the plan form. Concerning methodology the two pronged theory has been devised for this research. On the one hand the theoretical underpinning of the concept and realistic field survey was evolved whereas; on the other hand, analytical and evaluative steps were conducted to reach the realities of topology and typology. The tools and techniques used in documentation and analysis include map making using Depth map and Google Earth. For field photography, personal site visits were carried out with hired professional photographers. There were chronological sites that were visited, documented and traced for the evolution of Architectural Grid. These comprise: Indus Valley Civilisation Mohenjo Daro City, Harappa Punjab, Mehrgarh Civilization Balochistan, and Dwaraka Golf of Kamber Arabian Sea. Conclusively; this paper would prove that “the Nature ” is the determinant of the precedents of grid pattern ay Harappa, which was otherwise perceived to be as a recent phenomenon of recorded history.