EZBET COMMUNITY CENTER Community Center Competition Abu Qarn, Old Cairo The project is to design a community center which contains an educational and crafts facilities. It aims to help create a new generation from Ezbet Abu Qarn that can lead the development of their own area in order to make it a social sustainable place. Design process respected the economical aspect of the design by focusing on passive design and environmental issues. Main features were exported from the community urban context in order to strengthen the ownership of the project for them.
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The main concept which applied in the urban context is to connect between the project and the existing community through main spine which passes by three main nodes that emphasis the orientation towards the project, and helps in attracting the surroundings community to the new community center. Preservative + Urban Conceptual Innovation Layout
1ST FLOOR PLAN
2ND FLOOR PLAN
WORKSHOP CLINIC PHARMACY HALL CLASS 3RD FLOOR PLAN
Outdoor
Link
Crafts Health Education
Outdoor
Bridging over poverty, illiteracy, ignorance. Bridging over and connecting craft, education and health. Bridging over separated land parcels and links them together to become one body. The outdoor area was mainly for community gathering and shared activities.
Plans / Elevations + Formation
MODELING COMMUNITY CENTER Modeling Workshop Stuttgart, Germany After the Ezbet community center competition, Ezbet Modeling Workshop held in Stuttgart university. It aimed integrate the first three winning projects, finalize its drawings, and make a physical model for the final product in two different scales. org | Ainshams & Stuttgart Universities | ezbetproject.com
Perspective + Sectional Model
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
MAIN ELEVATION
Perspective + Plans