Published Date

12

April 2010
Monday

“A Green Dhaka is achievable” – Landscape Architecture Study Trip

“A Green Dhaka is achievable” – Landscape Architecture Study Trip

“A Green Dhaka is achievable” – Landscape Architecture Study Trip

The 31st of March 2010 arrived as a magnificent Wednesday morning and the class of Landscape Design Studio of Architecture Department made a trip to Ramna Park. Students were received by Tarupallab, a nature study organization. Biprodas Barua and Mokarram Hossain from Tarupallab as the presenter along with Ashik Ikbal and Suraiya Farzana and some other teachers accompanied the team and supervised the session.  
 
The trip intended to develop a compassionate voice to protect and understand ‘green’ as an important ingredient of urban ecology and biodiversity. Ramna Park covers an area of 68 acres and boasts with 71 species of flowering plant, 36 species of fruit bearing plant and 33 species of herbal plant. Open air lectures under the foliages fed with gentle breeze from lake side offered a breathtaking experience. Students were addressed on the role of urban park as the most important ingredient of a city, like lungs to the body. It was a day of re-acquaintance with trees - flower-bearing, scent-emanating, shadow-giving, corridor-creating trees that marked the passing of the seasons. The session also raised awareness against the depletion of urban greeneries and spoke in opposition to the greed and manipulation which eventually plays role in decreasing the greens of this city. Dhaka promised to be a city with profusion of greeneries. We believe that through careful design intervention of lakes, gardens, and parks, our city can still set the model for a tropical green city in the twenty-first century.