Today was split between a tour of a few neighborhoods in Old Dhaka and attending half of the Asia Cup final between the cricket teams of Pakistan and Sri Lanka. We started out in Shakhari Bazaar, one of the oldest parts of Dhaka and one of the most Hindu. The main street is lined with... Continue Reading →
Third class travel has certainly improved in a hundred years time. I am seated in the back of the first level of the double decker Airbus, a swollen and oddly proportioned plane with some 600 seats but I would wager less than 400 passengers. Maybe far less. My section seems less than a third full.... Continue Reading →
I didn't get any sleep before my bus up to New York but I sleep incredibly soundly along with most of the other passengers of the full DC to NYC red-eye. It took me a few minutes to remember where I was and where I had to go. The subway trip was long but I... Continue Reading →
I catch a Megabus to New York in a few hours then make my way to JFK for a flight to Dhaka by way of Dubai. The week started with snow delays, had a last minute trip to DC yesterday to pick up my passport and visa, a mid term exam yesterday and a mid... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow is mid review, involving 10 minutes of slide show about the macro economy of Bangladesh and the informal electronic recycling in Dhaka. None of the slides are in final form yet, so I'll post the graphics from sources which I will be incorporating into my presentation, then I'll post my slides tomorrow night.
E-waste has a lot of possible definitions, but it refers to used electronics shipped between countries. From the StEP-Initiative, it refers to "the reverse supply chain which collects products no loner desired by a given consumer and refurbishes for other consumers, recycles, or otherwise processes waste." The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development defines e-waste as... Continue Reading →
The following is a proposal for a road trip to Beaver Run, PA on March 15th to go visit Fallingwater: The first image is from the foundations website, and the second is from an article about the story behind the gift shop built on the grounds. I will leave the general back story of the... Continue Reading →
Finally made it up to the George Nakashima Foundation and Workshop this afternoon for their open house (Saturdays 1-4:30pm). They allow photography on the grounds, but not inside the buildings. Here are some photographs of the buildings and some sketches of the buildings and furniture:
"Information does not exist in a natural state, available to the light of reason in the form of knowledge ordered to display itself in a self-evident way. Not at all.- if that would be the case, designers would only have to follow the natural way of presenting information. ...the distance between us and Edward Tufte:... Continue Reading →
This project was a one week charrette from the fall of 2012 (the transitional housing studio) looking at minimal urban shelters.
Adam Achrati 