The Urban Editor’s Note:

Insert

“In the heart of the city, urban inserts serve as poetic

verses, composing stories of community, culture, and
change.”

Bernard Tschumi

Contact: basma.fahim@student.ivs.edu.pk

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Contents Urban Insert: Keywords

01 04 07
Urban Inserts: Inserts in Action: Decoding Inserts:
Keywords. Case Study Analysis Programmatic Clues.
pg. 04. pg. 09. pg. 09.

02 05 08
Defining the Why the Urban The Aftermath:
Tracing Post-Design
Urban Insert: Insert? Impact.
pg. 05. On Collective Memory. pg. 09.
pg. 11.

03 06
Immediate and User Driven Inserts: Connect Integrate Uplift
Meeting the Urbanite’s Wishlist.
Gradual Inserts: pg. 13.
Types of Urban Inserts.
pg. 07.

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Defining The Urban Insert: Interventions that Celebrate the
Existing Urban Context and Form their Own Identity at the Same Time.

An Urban Insert Connects People, An Urban Insert Integrates and Enhances An Urban Insert Uplifts the
Architecture, and the City Surrounding Context Within Itself Community Around

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Immediate and Gradual Inserts:

*Two Final Sketches in the Works.

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Inserts in Action: Case
Study Analysis

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put up here - Needs some Polishing - Finish
Analysis of the Centre Pompidou

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 Shamianas covered
entire roofscape
Why the Urban Insert?

Dominated by
Pedestrians of all
Memory Existing Assets
genders

Liveliness of Old Existing Informality

Marketscape
Sound of Music
surrounding the
market Ease of Pedestrian Scope for Social
Movement Inclusion

The abundance of Existing

Spontaneous Green Spaces Marketplace
socio-culture: Police
and the Locals

RECREATE ENHANCE
Famous food
street
Urban Inserts:
On Collective Memory: Our
Context in the Past 13 14
User Driven
Inserts: Meeting
the Urbanite’s Wishlist

Consumers and Daily Police Quarter Residents

Bazaar Vendors
Commuters and the Police

Permanence Mobility Rest Walkability Safety Respite Play

Organized Sitting Spaces Designed Streetscape Community Spaces

Marketscape

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 Worshippers from New Young Entrepreneurs and
Waste Collectors
Memon Masjid Working Women

Peace Access Stability Making Return Network Grow

Spaces of Refuge Pedestrian Pathway Formal Waste Workshop Co-working Spaces

Collection Area

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Decoding the Insert: Programmatic Clues

Immediate Inserts Gradual Inserts

Space for Space for Space for Space for

Rehabilitation Community Reuse Growth

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The Aftermath: Tracing Post-Design
Impact

Impact Analysis:
Users/Context/Larger Context

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*Three Renders from Final Project covering full
pages.
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