Maspero Culture Center - bachelor thesis project

MASPERO CULTURE CENTER Graduation Project Maspero, Cairo

The project aims to revive the original culture of Egypt with a prototype architectural unit in the heart of Cairo. The project contains exhibition, museum, theatre, educational, and commercial bazaars zones. The main target is to revive and innovate the behavior of the community and integrate the different users through the formation the relationships between indoor and outdoor spaces. spv | Dr. Sameh ElFeki | samehelfeki@yahoo.co.uk

D I SC OV E RE D N OT B U I LT According to the rich history of Maspero, The builing designed to be discovered out of Maspero land, not built as an additional mass, which applied by making the approach towards the community with the same level of the ceiling of the facing mass. Once the visitor enter the project from the residential side approach, he is already in another environment and almost buffered from the outside the surroundings. In order to put the visitors in the needed mood to raise their scene of belonging to the project and achieve the concept of awareness.

Caved out of Maspero Land

Main Grid

MASPERO CULTURE CENTER Community Approach Plaza

Directly to Plaza Community Direct Connection of the project

Massing Model + Psychological Concept

MEETING PLACE NOT BULKY BUILDING Project design aimed to make it work as a meeting place in order to achieve the integration between the different types of visitors which reached through making the plaza is the only access to every zone from inside the project.

Plaza Touristic Approach Nile Side

Appro.

Main Zones

Plaza

Community Approach

Landscape Creates Boundaries

Different Functions Buffered

All Approaches Achieves the Concept Goal

Formation Concept, 2nd Floor Plan + Project Perspective

TIME CAPSULE A hologramatic space that displaying the milestones through the history of Egypt.

The concept behind is a 3D lighting system which comes from the three dimentional corner; walls, ceiling, and flooring. The paces works as a keeping history capsule which tell the events that changed the flow of the Egyptian culture.

Master Plan + Time Capsule

Section