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The Unique Situation at Lawachara National Park  
 
The Lawachara National Park Community  
 
National Architectural Competition – Bringing our Best Environmental Creativity into the Forest  
 
The Winning Design  
 
Raising Funds and Building the Center: Public-Private Partnership on Behalf of the Community  
 
Frequently Asked Questions  
 
Fund Management  
 
Cost of Construction  
   
 
 
  Recognizing the need for a Visitor Interpretation Center for Lawachara, the Forest Department’s Nishorgo Program – with assistance from three generous private construction firms and the Nishorgo Support Project – organized a national architectural competition in 2005 to design an innovative, nature friendly and community-focused Visitor Interpretation Center for the Lawachara National Park.

80 registrations were made. 32 participants submitted complete replica models, architectural drawing, along with conceptual explanation and rationale. The models and concepts were exhibited for a week at the National Museum. Nearly 11,000 people visited the exhibition. 60% of the visitors were graduate students.

An eminent Jury of national and international judges was assembled under the auspices of the Institute of Architects of Bangladesh, and winners received a 1 lakh award.
 
 
 
  Visitor's (Started from 4th June, 2007): <% Dim objFSO, objCountFile ' object vars for FSO and File Dim strCountFileName ' filename of count text file Dim iCount ' count variable Dim bUseImages ' boolean whether or not to use images Dim I ' standard looping var ' Determine whether we use images or plain text ' You could just set this to True or False instead bUseImages = CBool(Request.QueryString("images")) ' Compute our count file's filename ' This is based on the file from which you call count.asp ' It basically takes that name and appends a .cnt so I don't ' accidently overwrite any files. If for some reason you have ' a file named script_name.asp.cnt then change this or watch out! strCountFileName = Server.MapPath(Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME") & ".cnt") ' Create FileSystemObject to deal with file access Set objFSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") ' Open the file as a text stream (1 = ForReading, True = Create) Set objCountFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strCountFileName, 1, True) ' Read the current count from the file If Not objCountFile.AtEndOfStream Then ' Set value to contents of the file iCount = CLng(objCountFile.ReadAll) Else ' If no file exists or it's empty start at 0 iCount = 0 End If ' Close the file and destroy the object objCountFile.Close Set objCountFile = Nothing ' Increment the count iCount = iCount + 1 ' Overwrite existing file and get a text stream to new one Set objCountFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(strCountFileName, True) ' Write updated count objCountFile.Write iCount ' Close the file and destroy the object objCountFile.Close Set objCountFile = Nothing ' Destroy the FSO object Set objFSO = Nothing ' We're all done with the hard part ' All that's left is to display the results If bUseImages Then ' Loop through the count integer showing each digit ' You can grab the images one at a time or get the zip ' http://www.asp101.com/samples/download/counter_imgs.zip For I = 1 to Len(iCount) ' Output the IMG tag using the right digit Response.Write "" Next 'I Else ' No image wanted just show the variable Response.Write iCount End If %>  


Nishorgo Support Project
, House 68 (2nd floor), Road No. 1, Block-I,
Banani, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh. Tel: 880-2-987 3229, 880-2-987 1553; E-mail: ctfr@irgbd.com
 

 
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