Khalid W. BAJWA, PhD
Architect | Urbanist - Art | Design | Architecture - COMSATS-Lahore
- Location
- Pakistan
- Industry
- Architecture & Planning
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Khalid W. BAJWA, PhD's Overview
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- Professor of Architecture at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
- Honorary Director Design at Sustainable Design Solutions
- Honorary Consultant/Advisor (Architecture/Urbanism) at Eyries International
- Honorary Consultant/Advisor (Architecture/Urbanism) at Shelters Associates
- Principal Consultant at Constellations
- Honorary Consultant Expert (Architecture/Urbanism) at Al-Imam Enterprises, Architects, Interior Designers, & Urban Designers
- Honorary Partner at C & B Associates
- Honorary Consultant/Advisor (Architecture/Urbanism) at Design Zone
- Past
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- Visiting Professor at School of Visual Arts and Design, BNU
- Associate Professor of Architecture at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
- Associate Academic Staff at Department of Architecture, Urbanism, and Planning. University of Leuven
- Senior Expert Architect/Urbanist at CRC, Lahore
- Senior Expert Architect/Urbanist at Al-Imam Enterprises, Architects, Interior Designers, & Urban Designers
- Senior Architect at Al-Imam Enterprises, Architects, Interior Designers, & Urban Designers
- Consultant at Neo-Studio
- Marketing Coordinator at Artal Restaurants International (Pvt.) Ltd. (KFC, Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurants)
- Team Leader and Studio Manager at Horti Group, Landscape Architects & Urban Designers
- Project Coordinator & Office Manager at Gandhara Consultants (Pvt.) Ltd., Architects, Interior Designers, & Engineers
- Project Architect (full time) at Al-Imam Enterprises, Architects, Interior Designers, & Urban Designers
- Project Architect (part time) at Waseem Rafiq & Associates, Architects, Developers, & Interior Designers
- Project Architect (contract) at Pervaiz & Mehmood Associates, Architects & Planners
- Associate Architect at Waseem Rafiq & Associates, Architects, Developers, & Interior Designers
- Apprentice at Mannan Associates, Architects & Planners
- Education
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- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
- Connections
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Khalid W. BAJWA, PhD's Summary
Architect | Urbanist Dr. Khalid W. BAJWA has experiences for projects ranging from dwellings and individual buildings to large complexes, medium-rise towers, housing settlements, landscape schemes, urban design, and urban planning. As a critical practitioner in the fields of Architecture & Urbanistics his area of expertise is Research by Design in addressing the challenges of objective and composed development by inventing designs that conceptualise Development as a Spatial Constellation in relation with its overall Image, Structure and Functioning. He is committed to refine his conviction that Design, Spatial (re)Formation, involves Analysis – understanding Spatial Crystallization through critical practice and research. He explores design issues of “Scale and Memory”, “Tissue and Typology”, and “Density and Livability” in search of Design Heuristics. As an academic his work hinges on the fields of Urban Analysis, History, and Planning but also does encompass issues of Modernity, Identity, Development, and Segregation. His works and initiatives have thematic focus on "Hybridity and Indigenous Modernities", "Development Standards for Sustainable Urban Model"; "Spatial Legacies"; and "Studio Pedagogy and its Didactics for Architectural Education". He graduated in architecture (B-Arch) from the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, Pakistan and did his post-graduation in Human Settlements – Urban Design & Planning (M-Arch) and doctorate in Architecture & Urban Design (PhD) from the University of Leuven (KULeuven), Belgium at the Department of Architecture, Urbanism, and Planning. He is Professor Architecture and Design in COMSATS, Lahore. Earlier, he worked as Associate Professor at the School of Architecture (SA), Beaconhouse National University (BNU), Lahore.
Khalid W. BAJWA, PhD's Experience
Professor of Architecture
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Research industry
March 2011 – Present (2 years 4 months)
Architecture & Design
Honorary Director Design
Sustainable Design Solutions
March 2011 – Present (2 years 4 months)
Sustainable Design Solutions (SDS) is a multidisciplinary consultancy firm which is committed to provide exceptional design services. It approaches macro and micro challenges with a responsibility for innovation, a sensibility towards suitable resources and environmental consciousness.
Honorary Consultant/Advisor (Architecture/Urbanism)
Shelters Associates
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Architecture & Planning industry
2008 – Present (5 years)
Associate Professor of Architecture
Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry
December 2007 – January 2011 (3 years 2 months)
School of Architecture
Senior Expert Architect/Urbanist
CRC, Lahore
April 2003 – October 2003 (7 months)
Master Planning, Documentation, Feasibility Studies, Research Reports, and Design Management for Urban Planning and Conservation
UNESCO Asia/Pacific Heritage Award 2006 for the Conservation & Rehabilitation of Uch (2003-2007). As an Urbanist contributed in the project for which World Monuments Watch funded the documentation and the restoration stabilized the three 15th century tombs with the deployment of innovative materials and techniques.
Physical Up-gradation and Cultural Promotion of a Historical Route (2004). Depilating physical environment of the Lahore’s historical areas restricts generating inland and foreign tourism and thereby tapping their cultural potentials for development.
Master Plan for Uch (2003-2004). As a Planner headed the project involving community participation and advocacy planning - supported by Orangi Pilot Project/Research Training Institute (OPP/RTI) and Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR).
Appropriate Building Design for Southern Punjab (2003). As an Architect and Activist contributed to the UNDP/GEF funded project to investigate climatically responsive, culturally sensitive, and cost efficient architectural design and dissemination of the results through community out reach activities.
Senior Expert Architect/Urbanist
Al-Imam Enterprises, Architects, Interior Designers, & Urban Designers
December 2002 – January 2003 (2 months)
Project Coordination, Master Planning, Architectural Interior and Furniture Design, Corporate Presentations, and Client Dealing
Bank Alfalah Towers, the Mall, Lahore (2001-2002). As a Project Architect designed a high-rise corporate office building in a listed historic site. An entire new structure was erected behind the façade. (project value PKR 250 million / covered area 97,000 sq. ft)
Bank Alfalah, Peshawar (2000-2002). As a Project Architect designed a corporate head-office in a stately colonial era building that had undergone several alterations additions over time. (project value PKR 24 million)
Senior Architect
Al-Imam Enterprises, Architects, Interior Designers, & Urban Designers
June 1998 – October 1999 (1 year 5 months)
Architectural design, standardized referencing, cataloguing, and presentations
Bank Alfalah, Lahore (1998-1999). As a Project Architect won the competition for a flagship branch that established the corporate image of the organization. (project value PKR 30 million, covered area 25,000 sft)
Project Coordinator & Office Manager
Gandhara Consultants (Pvt.) Ltd., Architects, Interior Designers, & Engineers
April 1997 – November 1997 (8 months)
Co-ordination with all sub-consultants including structure, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and power, responsible for developing all building services including lifts, escalators, CCTV, MATV, FA & FD, FF, PABX, and security, responsible for time targeting / scheduling and design monitoring
Siddiq Trade Centre [STC], Lahore (1997). As a Project Coordinator worked on a 15 storey multi-use tower that required intense co-ordination with sub-consultants including structure, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and power. It demanded particular attention for developing building services. Drawing production in the studio needed close interaction with the site for efficient time targeting/scheduling and design monitoring. (project value PKR 850 million, area 360,000 sft)
Project Architect (full time)
Al-Imam Enterprises, Architects, Interior Designers, & Urban Designers
January 1996 – March 1997 (1 year 3 months)
Architectural design, preparing working / construction / finishing details for interior design projects, office management and time targeting
Generation Fashion Shop, Gulberg, Lahore (1996-1997). As an Architect worked in the design team for a state of the art fashion store. (project value PKR 9.5 million)
Project Architect (part time)
Waseem Rafiq & Associates, Architects, Developers, & Interior Designers
November 1995 – March 1997 (1 year 5 months)
Developing design proposals, handling and preparing documents and drawings for regulatory bodies, site supervision, estimations and evaluations, procurements
Khalid W. BAJWA, PhD's Projects
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Shahdin Bank Alfalah Corporate banking Branch and Retail Banking Branch
- 2003 to 2005
The Shahdin Building is more than 100 years old. Street front has been retained as the building is earmarked as an asset. The building behind was rebuilt keeping in mind the modern day requirements of a corporate office building.
The building facade was built on Fibonacci series, the same has been selectively adapted for planning and proportion of different furnishing components such as partitioning system, floor design, internal elevations etc.
Khalid W. BAJWA, PhD's Education
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
PhD, Architecture & Urbanism
2003 – 2008
Dissertation: Development Conditions of Androon Shaher, Walled City of Lahore – Towards a Spatial Knowledge Base for Urban Design and Planning
This research examines the development conditions of the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan. It develops a knowledge base by investigating the city from a space-society perspective. Currently, the Walled City is degenerating into an unliveable space. We understand that this condition is related with the overall image, structure and functioning of the city. Based on the position that the understanding of the city is critical for transforming it, this study uses three divergent fields – planning practice, urban history and theory, and empirical work – to generate a body of urban knowledge. It is knowledge of the relevance of its spatiality, materiality and sociality for inventing design.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
M-Arch, Human Settlements – Urban Design & Planning
1999 – 2000
Design Thesis: Urban Design Intervention for Schaarbeek/Evere, Brussels, Belgium
A development proposal for the peripheral district of Brussels, where new high-speed train terminal (TGV) has been proposed. It attempts to canalize the potential development in order to invigorate the area while addressing the issues of spatial integration, morphology & typology of the area, and infrastructure development. Worked with Prof. Dr. Bruno DEMEULDER (ASRO, Leuven)
University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
B-Arch, Architecture
1989 – 1996
Design Thesis: Development of Lahore Canal as a social, cultural, and recreational spine of Lahore - An Urban Theatre: A city long extravaganza.
Unfortunately, neither the Lower Bari Duab - LBD - canal in Lahore has been able to contribute significantly to the overall urban richness nor it is able to develop civic and cultural activities. However, it is an important element in the urban structure of Lahore, running almost through the middle of the city. This project re-Evaluates and re-Interprets it to transform it into a vibrant development, adding to the city.
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