Bulaq… The Evolution
AENG 491 – Thesis 2 Archiprix Competition Entry My bachelor’s graduation project was targeting the main problem of city Bulaq: the big socio-economic gap by highlighting Bulaq’s historical potential present in the UNESCO world heritage site hidden behind the modern Nile strip developments. The center will be a catalyst for socio-economic development in Bulaq which will generate revenue for the conservation of the tangible and intangible heritage of Bulaq. The heritage and interpretation center is part of the urban development plan: “Bulaq…The Evolution” (our Thesis 1 project) to highlight and develop Bulaq’s four potentials: industrial, commercial, historical and cultural.. The main objective of the master-plan was to synchronize the interests in the time of socio-economical dichotomy. AUC | Spring 2014| Individual Physical Computing Design Tools Graduate, PhD MetaVoxels Graduate, PhD
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S-C-R-E-E-N
Skin Competition by TEX-FAB SKIN is a two-stage international design competition established to foster the deeper developments within the field of computational fabrication. SKIN asked designers and researchers to speculate, or if they so choose – to present existing research - on the role of the building envelope by exploring new methods to enable the performative and aesthetic qualities of a façade. My entry was selected to be featured in the TEX-FAB website and in the ACADIA (the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture) exhibition in October 2013 and Austin, February 2014. AUC | Summer 2013| Individual Physical Computing Design Tools Graduate, PhD MetaVoxels Graduate, PhD
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A Place to Remember – Shelter Not Enclosure
AENG 453 – Design Studio 3 The design task was to design a work-live-sell environment inspired by the old Cairo concept of ‘Wekala’. The design process was divided into stages: extensive site analysis, sustainable wall concept design, cluster design and at the end the master plan. My main design concept was to provide ‘Shelter not enclosure’. This was accomplished by challenging the ordinary building conventions and create a universal space with minimum enclosures. The platforms were put in different levels to ensure privacy. Minimalistic walls and acoustic buffers were only used when needed. The design was inspired by its context: the desert + new emerging developments. The roof and wall sustainable concept were inspired by nature: ‘biomimcry’. It was used to increase the exposed mass and decrease the heat transmission. AUC | Spring 2012| Individual Physical Computing Design Tools Graduate, PhD MetaVoxels Graduate, PhD
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