Ahmed yusuf portfolio 2017

Ahmed Yusuf Architecture portfolio Selected works 2011-2017

[Ahmed yusuf] [Portfolio 2015]

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“ A building is not Just

a place to be but a way to be ” [Frank L.Wright]

[Ahmed yusuf] [Portfolio 2015]

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Born: 13 feb 1991 , Egypt Marital status: single

contact 13 st, El-Maadi, Cairo, Egypt.

Email: Ahm.yusuf1991@ gmail.com Mobile: (002)-01111-295-807

Education: Master’s Degree, Archiectural Engineering, Cairo University.

2014 – 2017 Bachelor’s Degree, Architecture and Urban Design,excellent with honor (1st ranked) Graduation project : Excellent Grade .

2009 - 2013 Faculty of Enginnering at Cairo University.

Experiance:

Ahmed Said Yusuf Architect, Lecturer Assistant

Born in 1991, Graduated from Cairo university, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Architecture in 2013 .Holding B.Sc. degree in Architectural Engineering (1st Ranked of the class). Also, M.Sc. in Archiectural Engineering in 2017. Working as a teaching assistant and very interested in the field of Architectural design and Urabn Studies . Participated in several Architectural Competitions in parallel to his undergraduate and postgraduate Studies and achieved 3rd place in Stanly Competition and achieved 1st rank in graduation project . also participated in several workshops such as IPD and LCASP at cardiff - UK .

Teaching Assistant at “ Architecture Dep., Faculty of Engineering, Cairo Uni. Dec 2014 – Present.

An Architect at “A2G2 Architecture & Interiors” April 2016 – Present.

An Architect at “AUG” office Jan 2015 – April 2015.

An Architect at Engineering Consultant office of “Engineering Institue of Armed Forces“ Nove 2013 – Dec 2014 .

Tr ave l l i n g : Cardiff - Wales - UK London - England - UK Berlin & Hamburg - Germany Athens - Greece

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Competitions: Mars 2016

Participated in “NBH” Competition of Creative centre for Children.

Jan 2016 Mars 2015

Wo r k s h o p s : April 2016

Participated in one week project seminars organized by Hafencity University - Hamburg - Germany.

Participant in “ Biennale Venice 2016 ” competition. organized by National organization for urban harmony.

Aug 2015

Participant in “ Aspace inspace ” competition organized by if-ideasforward for international compet itions of ideas.

Participated in “​LCASP “ low carbon architecture summer programme 2015 organized by welsh school of architecture - cardiff uni.- walse.

May 2015

Participated in the “street design challenge in Giza” workshop organized by UNDP, UN Habitat, Giza Governorate, the creative cooperative and the department of architecture at Cairo uni.

April 2015

Participated in joint workshop CUFE / KTH-sweden A sketch for a new Capitol Centre for Cairo (linking New Cairo with Cairo)

Mars 2015

Participated in [IPD] introduction to parametric design using Rhino & Grasshopper.

Dece 2014

Participated in a research project ‘Regeneration of Public Spaces in Central Cairo’ presented to Science & Technology Development Fund in Egypt (STDF) .

Feb 2015

3rd place winner in “ Urban innovation ” competition organized by CUFE & AUC & Megwra

Nove 2014

Participant in “ DAKAR - temporary cinema ” competition organized by [AC-CA] Architectural Competition Concours d’Architecture

Dece 2014

3rd place winner in “ SanSaba business complex building ” competition. organized by stanly company at Alex..

Feb 2013

Participant in “ Bridge to the future ” competition organized by Remal foundation & Ain shams university.

Resume

Tr a i n i n g : Internship in “ Talent engineering campany ” Summer 2012 Internship in “ Specialized constarcting co ” Summer 2011 Internship in “ Arab contractors campany ” Summer 2010

Sofware: Efficient at working with: Adobe photoshop cs6 Autocad 2010 3d studio max 2014 Adobe lightroom 4 Intermediate in: Sketch up 2014 Revit Architecture 2014 Adobe Indesign cs5 Adobe illustrator cs6

Hobbies: Sketching & Water color drawings Photography

Reference: upon request

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content

A-Competitions: Mars 2016 Jan 2016 Mars 2015 Feb 2015 Nov 2014 Dec 2014 Feb 2013

Creative Centre for Childern Egypt’s pavilion in Venice Aspace inspace Urban innovation Dakar - temporary cinema SanSaba business complex building Bridge to the future

B-Professional: Aug 2017 July 2017 April 2017 April 2017 April 2017 Nove 2016 Oct 2016 Oct 2016 July 2015 Feb 2015 July 2014

Living Rm in KSA. Men’s Saloon in KSA. Bedrm & Dressing in KSA. Master Bedrm in KSA. Reception in Horizon Compound.

Roof design of Villa.

3 Attached Villas in NEWGIZA. Plaza of Clock tower of Cairo University.

Cemetery Plaza in Alamein Marina.

Social Building of Zayed Club.

Nile Living room.

May 2014 April 2014

Mediterranean Living room.

Small residential unit “Kit.,living,bath”

C-Academic Work&workshops: Aug 2015 May 2015 Nove 2014 July 2013 Nove 2013 Dec 2013 Dec 2013

House for the future Street design challenge in Giza Renovation of Al-alfy street ( STDF) Egyptian mini-expo 2013 (graduation project) Pixel tower at El-tahrir Residential building at El-doki Heliopolis dynamic city at Masr el-gedida

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A- Competitions [Ahmed yusuf] [Portfolio 2015]

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Creative Centre in Bahrain Type: International competition Year: 2016 Status: team work Place: Bahrain Concept Childhood is a magical time .Creativity may be a hallmark of childhood, but it is not just child’s play. In fact, identifying and nurturing creative potential in the early years of childhood is crucial for raising the next generation of innovators whose mindset and problem solving skills will solve today’s (and tomorrow’s) greatest challenges..

We propose and implement those components through our design through design elements by different and unusual treatments to contain children’s mind and movement. Movement has been achieved through continuous path around the main court instead of moving in ordinary doors & corridors. Moreover, the walls are designed in a freeform, no sharp edges nor rigid lines in the border of the workshop.

Form Generation

Zoning Diagram

Ground floor plan

1st floor plan

The spaces we created are furnished with dynamic flexible objects, which can be easily joined together or separated in several ways. There are strong vertical and horizontal interaction in the building, vertically it has been achieved through the openings between the floors, horizontally it reveals in the transparent partitions between the workshops.

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Egypt's pavilion in Venice Type: National competition Year: 2016 Status: team work Place: Venice PARALLEL CITIES The design concept depicts three issues facing the city and its citizens in the midst of uneven distribution of resources. Despite of the urban growth over agricultural land, diminishing green spaces, and the housing question, people improvise in the in-between spaces.

In-between spaces Today, Egypt is witnessing a set of battles affecting its built environment and influencing the shape of its cities. In Cairo, the housing question between unplanned informalities and planned compounds on the edge represent a key battle over resources with the absence of the state. Since 1991, the Structural Adjustment Program and neoliberal reforms has triggered a new political economy of privatization. The withdrawal of the state from the provision of dwelling, basic needs, and urban amenities have disenfranchised many citizens in their quest for a decent and dignified life.

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Today, Egypt is witnessing a set of battles affecting its built environment and influencing the shape of its cities. In Cairo, the housing question between unplanned informalities and planned compounds on the edge represent a key battle over resources with the absence of the state. Since 1991, the Structural Adjustment Program and neoliberal reforms has triggered a new political economy of privatization. The withdrawal of the state from the provision of dwelling, basic needs, and urban amenities have disenfranchised many citizens in their quest for a decent and dignified life.

Despite of the soaring reality in the public domain, the land and housing condition, people articulate their everyday activities in the given built environment using in-between spaces. A rich array of experiences occurs in urban pockets making life bearable. In Egyptian cities, it is very common to find an alley hosting a funeral followed by a party wedding and a joyful gathering in the next day.

Children’s swings and football playgrounds are vivid social activities that are informally planned. Newspaper shops by the street corners, flower shops under flyovers, and activities beneath pedestrian flyovers envisage another facet of social practices in a dire economy. The succession of events over the same space at different times reflect a society making the best of the current situation; it is an implicit pattern language. It is a display of an unorganized civic society operating off the radar. There is no winning or losing in such battles, but rather an everyday struggle in search of hope.

UDER THE FLYOVER

This shot is an abstraction of the activities of under the bridge and left over spaces like microbus stations, gathering areas, small cafeterias, etc.

ARCHITECTURE OF THE COMPOUNDS

The shot includes a real built elevation of a villa in a suburban compound in Cairo with predictions of improvisation in the future due to people’s unplanned interventions.

THE FLYOVER

This panorama sums up the overall image of the pavilion showing the contrast between the forground and the background, and asserting the idea of urban sprawl over the suburban planned communities.

BETWEEN ALLYES

The sensations between the walls imitates the experience of the Egyptian alleys, bringing the same architectural and sociocultural elements, colors, materials and proportions.

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aspace inspace by [if-ideasforward] Type: international competition Year: 2015 Status: team work This competition was organized for only 24 hours as a time to be submitted .

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s the societies nowadays move fast toward developing, It leaves us little time to push the barriers of our current reality, to stop and separate ourselves from the existing stress we face in life. Separating ourselves through an event is effective and helpful but we always fear time, that the event itself takes time plus the time we waste in traveling to our magnificent event.

Our proposal aims to combine the 4 coordinates that every event has (X,Y,Z and T), without wasting time in traveling and without leaving the existing (X,Y,Z). We created ASPACE INSPACE that provides an opportunity to reflect, think and rest. As we do in our daily lives we separate ourselves by disabling sense of hearing using headphones and sense of seeing through covering eyes.

The dragged cylinder takes you through a journey to your own unknown, separates you from the surrounding atmosphere to an atmosphere you create by yourself. This space includes a ringed screen around your head and a sound system. The proposed idea gives the opportunity to adapt your own cosy atmosphere using these tools.

Drawings

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Urban innovation by [CUFE-AUC-Megwra] Type: international competition Year: 2015 Status: team work Place: 6th of october city, EGYPT

Solve from Within

Most of the governmental housing projects lack the sense of identity, and characterised by the vast areas of open spaces, that may not be used because of it lacks intimacy on human scale .

Existing situation includes varios opportionities and strengths but the challenge is how to Re-organize the components of the space We will focus our attention on the quality of public spaces in order to make neighborhoods that feel safe,comfort, and lively

It is noticed that people usually try by their own efforts to improve the quality of space in the closest spaces from the entrances and walls of their residential buildings - Improve safety in lower floors - More clean than other open spaces - Gathering near entrance - Growing food crops - Refinishing the entrances and walls of ground floor This observation means that people feel responsibility and belonging to the small space (around the entrance) more than other larger open spaces.

BELONGING RESPONSIBILITY Our proposal suggests enlarging these spaces which people feel responsibility and belonging to.

existing situation

proposed situation

When large amont of people are responsible for the place, it turns to be a neglected space. Making the spaces less public or shared by people increases people’s responsibility and sense of belonging.

Families that live in the same residential building represent a small community. This small community is suggested in our proposal to be the core of development for the competition’s site and the similar cases in new cities of Egypt.

Wooden Pallet 100cm*70cm

The idea of using the wooden pallets came from the industrial zone, where they store large amounts of it for low prices.

They are in very good conditions, sold for 25 EGP per pallet, and 1000 EGP for 1 ton of pallets

Daytime The open spaces are mostly used as playgrounds for the kids, and gathering spaces for their parents.

Night time Open spaces are mainly used for events like weddings, funerals and movie nights.

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Compositions

1st composition This composition is mainly designed to accomodate the kids’ needs for safe playgrounds in front of their homes. Parking lots can be transformed into playgrounds at daytime.

2nd composition This composition is mainly designed to accomodate the people’s needs for seatings. Parking lots can be transformed into playgrounds at daytime.

3rd composition This composition is flexible to be used by all age categories. It provides seats for adults and playgrounds for children. Parking lots can be transformed into playgrounds at daytime.

Waste managment

Recyclying graywater

- The rubbish of each building is collected in 3 sorted rubbish bins (Organic waste Glass waste- Paper Waste). The inhabitants of every building are possible for their rubbish bins.

- Graywater is water from washing machines, showers and bathroom sinks. It is wastewater that can contain some soap, salts, hair, suspended solids and bacteria, but that is clean enough to water washing cars, flushers and Inedible plants (trees, grass, shrubs ...)

- Black water is water from toilets and kitchen sinks . It requires biological or chemical treatment and disinfection before re-use

- The chicken coop waste and organic waste are collected in compost then used as a fertiliser for the community gardens.

- Workshops may be held in the neighborhood to help people know how to recycle their waste, and to spread the idea in the neighboring districts.

- Our proposal suggests changing the drainage system of the flats to separate blackwater from greywater to be able to reuse it.

- This intervention in buildings and properties will take place in second phase after improving acceptance and trust in first phase

Phasing The project starts with one unit and spreads out by increasing the scope of intervention and amount of people that will interact within it . Success in each phase makes a public proof and prepares inhabitants and other participants to next phase. Evaluation and modifications after each phase are easier because of the flexibility of the project .

PHASE 1

Begin with the core of development suggested in our proposal in one building .

PHASE 2

success in the previous action make a public proof that people can build somthing when they work together . The Idea take place in other buildings .

PHASE 3

Enlarge the scope of intervention from spaces around the entrances to the open spaces in cluster. That means increasing number of people interact and work together using same skills they learned from previous phase.

PHASE 4

The neighborhood became more safe and lively .The Idea spreads out enlarging the scope of intervention to the puplic spaces in the center (parking areas, school, workshops, shops,etc). People are more acceptable to participate .

PHASE 5

Applying the Idea on similar cases in new cities with modifications in materials and components and its distribution based on the context .

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Temporary cinema by [AC-CA] Type: international competition Year: 2014 Status: team work Place: Dakar, Senegal Dakar is the capital and largest city in Senegal. It is located on the Cap-Vert Peninsula on the Atlantic coast and is the westernmost city on the African mainland.

Its position, on the western edge of Africa, is an advantageous departure point for trans-Atlantic and European trade; this fact aided its growth into a major regional port.

Dakar coast represents the social and economic life of the city . Many activities take place on the beach such as tourism uses , fishing and selling fish , open markets , sports and music and dancing. Our proposal suggests the coast as the scope of the temporary cinema

Providing shelter to beach vendors, especially fish vendors, will protect them from the constant rain in Dakar.

That will make them more capable of working

The pattern of boats layout is an existing pattern on Dakar beaches.

Fishers use them at the morning, and leave them on the beach the rest of the day. They sell their fish next to the place of their parked boats.

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cinema space night time At night all the rooms are closed and dedicated to serve the spectators Fish Market space daytime Fish Markets are a common activity along the coast of Dakar. At day time, the spaces of the cinema are used to serve the fish market. The sheltered spaces help to protect vendors from the rains.

Some boats are used for fishing at the morning.

The remaining boats are rearranged to transform the hall into a sea-food court.

Multi purpose space daytime When the cinema is moved to any place other than a fish market, the spaces are transformed at day time to multiuse spaces.

Possible uses of the space include a gathering space, or a community development center with a lecture hall. The boats can be re-arranged to form the boudries of a playground.

Structural Design The structure consists of an equal sided triangle to make it easy to erect and demount. There is no need to give numbers to the members because they are all the same. The triangle is a stable structure that will need no foundatioons. The triangular shape brings no worries about the rain most of the year in Dakar Transportation The whole structure is transported by boats. All the cinema components including the members, tents and the screen are transported by the boats.

All boats have chairs with foldable backs to help shipping more items in a boat.

Boats Design Boats are typical imitation of Dakar fishing Boats with slight alternatives in the seating quality. Seatings backs are foldable to add flexibility to the boats’ functions (Food Cour) for example A boats capacity of spectators was well considered.Their are 2 main sizes of boats with two different capacities of 26 spectator and 23 spectator per boat.

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SanSaba Business Complex Building Type: National competition Year: 2014 Status: team work Place: Alexandria, Egypt

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he project site is located in a great location in the center of Alexandria.

Fouad Street, which features distinctive architectural elements and important buildings such as theaters and Cinemas.

Fouad Street is one of the most important streets of Alexandria , and is one of the oldest streets in the world , it is known for the presence of many historic buildings, theaters and cinemas.

concept: The concept of the building evolved by the reconciliation of the old and modern design strategies. The building corresponds to the historical context of Fouad street in a responsible way, by respecting without replication, and contrasting without orderless differentiation.

Form Generation and idea development

The Challenge

The site is surrounded by buildings of high architectural value contains the wonderful architectural details

Drawings

Ground floor plan scale to fit

The Volume

Height of the building is suitable for buildings surrounding the project .

Form Follows Context Direction of movement in the street, has formed a block of entrance as in the buildings surrounding the project, such as the Greek Church .

1st floor plan scale to fit

The Openings

Directing the openings with the wind direction

The Faced

abstract the ration of the openings in the contextutal buildings

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Bridge to future

by Remal Foundation Type: competition Year: 2013 Status: team work Place: Cairo, Egypt

concept: The process of transition .

During passing the future, old thoughts tries to pull you back which is could never virtually.

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B- Professional ( Exterior & Interior) [Ahmed yusuf] [Portfolio 2015]

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Quateshian Complex in KSA Type: Residential - EXterior.

Year: 2017 Status: Single work co-operted with “A2G2 Architecture & Interiors”

Place: KSA The complex consists of 5 buildings over area 2600 m2. these buildings are the father’s villa, guest suite and 3 sons’ villas.

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3 Attached Villa in NewGiza Type: Residential - Exterior Year: 2016 Status: Single work co-operted with “A2G2 Architecture & Interiors”

Place: Cairo, Egypt

Ground Floor Plan

Basement Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

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Proposal 1

plaza of the clock tower Type: Landscape-project to Cairo Uni. Year: 2016 Status: Team work co-operted with “associated consultant office�

Place: Cairo, Egypt

3 Alternatives for the Plaza

of Clock Tower

Proposal 2

Proposal 3

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Cemetery Plaza in Alamein Type: Memorial - Cultural Year: 2015 Status: Team work co-operted with “associated consultant office�

Place: Alamein Marina, Egypt This plaza project is meant to be a memorial place for Soldiers died at the second World War.

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Social Bulding of Zayed Club Type: Entertainment Year: 2015 Status: Team work co-operted with “AUG office”

Place: Zayed City, Egypt

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan [Ahmed yusuf] [Portfolio 2015]

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Living Room in KSA Type: Residential - interior.

Year: 2017 Status: single work Place: KSA

Furnished Floor Plan [Ahmed yusuf] [Portfolio 2015]

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Men's Saloon in KSA Type: Residential - interior.

Year: 2017 Status: single work Place: KSA

Furnished Floor Plan [Ahmed yusuf] [Portfolio 2015]

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bedrm. & Dressing in KSA Type: Residential - interior.

Year: 2017 Status: single work Place: KSA

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Master bedroom in KSA Type: Residential - interior.

Year: 2017 Status: individual Place: KSA

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Reception in Horizon compound Type: Residential - interior.

Year: 2016 Status: Single work co-operted with “A2G2 Architecture & Interiors�

Place: Cairo, Egypt

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Roof Design of A villa Type: Residential - Interior Year: 2016 Status: Team work co-operted with “A2G2 Architecture & Interiors”

Place: Cairo, Egypt

Roof Floor Plan

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NILE living Room Type: Residential-Interior Year: 2014 Status: single work Place: Cairo, Egypt

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simple modern living room overlooks at Nile .

Area: 4x9.5 m2

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Mediterranean Living room Type: Residential-Interior Year: 2014 Status: single work Place: Cairo, Egypt

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iterran e a n living room overlooks at a green area .

Area: 6.50x6.50 m2

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C- Academic work+workshops [Ahmed yusuf] [Portfolio 2015]

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House for the future Type: Workshop Year: 2015 Status: Team work Place: Cardiff, Wales, UK

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simple modern living room overlooks at Nile .

Area: 4x9.5 m2

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Al alfy street renovation Type: Urban Design-post graduate Year: 2014 Status: team work Place: downtown, Cairo, Egypt

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Downtown is the city’s heart, its pedestrian areas are Downtown’s own heart. They give a human face to this chaotic urban space and reinvent the meaning and function of “the street.”

Off Emad Eddin Street, an old hub for casinos and night clubs in the 1920s, is el-Alfy Street. This one is named after a Mamluk prince who founded Azbakia--a district remodeled

by Khedive Ismail, in his attempt to modernize 19th-century Cairo, after Parc Monceau in Paris. Akher Sa’a restaurant is the street’s main attraction nowadays.

El-Alfy Street is also strewn with convenient benches for dwellers to sit, rest, eat, or exchange words of love. It’s a spot where the busy place of the city slows down.

Activity Map

Al-Alfy st.’s recommendation - Most of uses in the ground floor are cafes, take away restaurants , dine in restaurant and patisseries therefore the has good potential to be an open food court .

- Upgrading the types and brands of exisiting cafes are essential but taking in consider keeping the same style of food such as zooba, Nola, Feshawy, Just falafel - The investors might rent the streets from the governorate, chaning the use of the empty apartment in the typical floors and raise the quality of the street such as Ismillia company, El futtaim, Amer group .

Main Vision Upgrading downtown cairo, reviving and creating a destination for all Egyptians to live, work, shop and socialize. the aim of restoring the buildings and upgrading their infrastructure to suit contemporary requirements for residential, commercail, and cultural spaces, while celebrating the original edifices that comprise Downtown’s architectural significance Condsider 26 july as a commercial hub, Azbkya park as a cultural hub and Al-Alfy street and Saraya Azbkya open food court ( entertainment hub ), by Upgrading the main axes linking between them ( 26 july street and Alfy street ) .

Up grading the commercial brands in 26 july, renovate Azbkya park and (sor elazbkya) which have been known for selling the old books [Ahmed yusuf] [Portfolio 2015]

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Shots - We promote sitting area zone by using different floors and poviding a shading tree .

- We used stripes of bazalt to define each zone of shops .

- cross distance between trees as it will be wide at reception nodes and narrow at the other path .

- We used “ tenda � as a shading for shops and to screen the current damage on shops .

- We used the fountain at middle node as aesthetic view and sitting area to gather pedestrains .

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- we designed public benches for pedestrains

Current situation

- we can use the space for concerts and events at weekend then remove it at other days .

Only returning the facade to orignal .

Using hanged colored unbrellas to attract the pedestrains and shading the path .

Wooden louvers to screen the damage Using “ tenda � to screen the damage of of air conditioner . air conditioner .and to shade the shops [Ahmed yusuf] [Portfolio 2015]

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Egyptian mini expo 2013 & theme pavillion Type: graduation project Year: 2013 Status: single work Place: El-mania, Egypt

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world’s fair, world exposition or universal exposition (sometimes spelled expo for short) is a large public exhibition. These exhibitions vary in character and are held in varying parts of the world.

The main attractions at world’s fairs are the national pavilions, created by participating countries.

Concept: My project is a catalyst project that promotes tolerance and reconcilition towards breaking boundaries between Africans’ people .

Boundaries Represnts barraries which resulted from different culture, bad policy ,racialism and foreign occupation for african countries and we want now to break these boundaries The shot of theme pavillion

Form Generation and idea development

Boundaries (walls - cubes) which represent a barraries or a screen to cross or see the other side (Nile View)

Using forces represented in 3 stripes masses to break these boundaries

The boundaries has broken and now we can see and cross the other side ( Nile view )

Master plan at +3.50 Scale to fit [Ahmed yusuf] [Portfolio 2015]

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Main hall overlooking Nile

Interior Shots

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scenario (A set of sensations that the visitors should feel ) 1-Sticks represent barraries which confuse the other side of view .

2-Water represent barraries for visitors to cross other side.

3-Two walls represent barraries for visitors to see other side .

4-Effect of breaking appeared on boundary wall.

5-breaking hall affacted by boundary walls in strip opens.

6-Effect of open directed to boundary walls to remind visitors of them .

7-Use parttions to make barraries and struggle for movement of visitors .

8-Effect of intersected lights indicate to struggle.

9-Hall open directed to nile view .

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Cross section scale to fit

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Barraries Hall

Boundary Hall

Broken boundary Hall

Remind of boundary Hall

Struggle Hall

Nile Hall

Nile Hall section scale to fit

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Main Shot of Mini-Expo

Layout of mini-expo scale to fit

Layout Studies - Site locate at south of egypt at El-mania because of the barraries and restrication of people there .

- there are 3 spines.main spine ended by theme pavillion and others by overlooking nile.

- spine axes represent forces which break boundaries represnted in curvilinear lines.

- curvilinear Mass represents service and office buildings.

Paths & Nodes

The path of theme pavillion

Solied & Void

Green areas

a theatre overlooks Nile

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Pixel Tower ( commercial, offices, hotel ) Type: Architecture Design - 4th year project Year: 2013 Status: single work Place: downtown, cairo, Egypt

concept Is to make the project interact with community and the context by connecting nile with museum and reflect the urban fabric .

Conceptial idea

Drawings

Ground floor plan

1st floor plan (commercial )

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Residential building at El-dokki Type: Residential - 4th year project Year: 2013 Status: single work Place: Cairo, Egypt

concept: All appartements overlook at viny square .

Drawings

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All apartments overlook at square

Typical floor plan

Ground floor plan ( mall ) [Ahmed yusuf] [Portfolio 2015]

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Heliopolis dynamic city at Masr El-gedida Type: Urban Design - 4th year project Year: 2013 Status: Team work Place: Masr El-gedida, cairo, Egypt

Strategy - Creating commercial axis connecting Bazilik square, Hussien Ibn-talal square and El-hegaz square and turning them into gathering nodes for social and commercail activities .

- Intersecting with commercial axis, Quiet Green network which is designed for pedestrains and connecting between clubs and parks such as meriland and El-ghaba - Creating intervention and re-activition in historical zone and how to handle with old building .

Green network Commercial axis

Problem of study

Commercial node

Urban fabic of Helipolis City is Characterized by the Value of heritage and the diversity of activities . there are a lot of spaces which are not well used and not satisfied for population , Especially the generation that seeks to renew and innovation.

social activities node Commercial and social zone President palace

Meriland park

El-bazilik sqr.

Haroun st.

Abo bakr El-sedik sqr. Ibn-Tala sqr.

Vision

El-Hegaz st.

El-Gamea sqr.

Analysing the City to 3 contrast zones of area and public spaces and reformulating it to emphasis and organize the existing activities and preserving the historical zone.

Osman st.

public park

Saint Fatima sqr.

Intervention point 1 commercial zone

Strategy

Zoning

Entrance

foodcourt

sitting area

exhibition

restaurant

- Designing pedestrain paths to suit the intensive flow of users in commercial street .

- Providing shading Area for pedestrains - Providing Parking areas to serve the increase in the density of visitors

bridges

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Intervention point 2 Green zone

Zoning

Strategy - Designing Green areas related to activities of people .

- Decreasing the flow of vehicales in this zone - Providing Setting area for pedestains and play ground for children - designing the landscape elements such as seats, tree base and lighting posts

reading zone sitting area water kids zone book stores parking

Intervention point 3 Historical zone

color scheme

Strategy

Furniture elements

- preserving the old heritage building .

- Renovate and reactivate the old area by moderns interventions and uses - preserving the urban character with same colors and texture .

- raising the value of old building

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