North Coast – Egypt
The design is characteristic of its aesthetically quality and deeply grounded conceptual integration of the surrounding natural environment. The project redefines the concept of coastal residential projects in Egypt and defeats the current obstacles of architectural rigidity, traditionalism and strict client budgets.
Inspired by the wind rock erosion process, Cassia project is the first design in the country to approach designing with biomimicry. Expressing the beauty of the desert, the formalistic adaptation of the outlines of nature is consciously reinvented to suit the project’s core functional recommendations.
An attempt to effectively manage environmental resources and reduce energy use is achieved through providing almost complete shading on the project buildings’ vertical envelopes by floor coverage of terraces and outer glazing, as well as the use of green roofs as thermal insulators.
Dimensions Design | March 2015| Group of 6