DESIGNING THE THRESHOLD BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND HABITAT muhtadin iqbal 0001045 Abstract: In the recent past, a great

interest shown by many private and foreign investors to invest in the industrial sector of Bangladesh, has opened up a great opportunity for the holistic development to establish a long term development pattern through architectural master planning and interventions. There are many common needs and demand of the industry and its host settlement, but they remain a very segregated identity and huge contrast in the development pattern. This thesis aims to generate a guideline model to predict the spatial quality and physical development pattern of the threshold between housing, industry and rural settlement for a codependent seamless character. key words: housing, industry ,rural settlement, spatial quality, physical development