KHAPLU-CITY CAPTIAL OF GHANCHE DISTRICT OF

GILGIT BALTISTAN IN NOTHERN PAKISTAN

Project By
MaryamIlyas
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 Safaida trees
turn yellow, in
VIEWS

winter the
landscape turns
white and, in
early spring, it
displays a
peach colour
palette

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infrastructure
No broad boulevards
marking the primary
axis of vehicular
circulation; rather, quaint
streets meander around
the built form, in
respect to the change
in levels and heights of
the topography

material of construction
For the local residences
ranges from stone, mud-
dried bricks and
corrugated sheets, to
timber and lime plaster

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 natural water
bodies found in
buildings respect the
entire city’s the area
surrounding natural
sewerage is landscape
dependent on
natural gravity.
Representing the organic
and natural elements found
in nature
physical and
social
balance

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 perceived sustainability of its configuration and perfect integration into its specific territory and its most immediate
landscape: with its

vernacular
an impressive landscape where, beyond the cornfields, all neatly walled. This is the very expression
vernacular architecture spectacular waterfall and the mills that have of the value of the vernacular heritage and the best
proof that, far from The existence of a major and a

architecture
survived the passing of time, make it possible minor heritage, what
has become a major area to “read”, in the deepest sense of that word, really exists is a unitary heritage concept,

of interest in what constitutes the which it s necessary to know, preserve and

revitalize, as an

recent decades important element for the model of the new society
that is approaching, where rural development is once
again set to play a major role

Environmental factors include:

− Temperature
− Thermal radiation
− Humidity
− Air speed
− Personal factors entail:
− Personal activity and condition
− Clothing

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