World expo 2020 in Cairo - Egypt
World Expo 2020 - Cairo Egypt
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This project, as part of Cairo expo 2020, perceives the idea of energy and translates it into space. Various countries participate each having its own exhibition space. THE CONCEPT OF ENERGY is INTERPRETED AS THE STRUGGLE TAKING PLACE BETWEEN excessive consumption and the environmental approach to save the environment. THE THREE SIDES OF THE STORY, THE positive, THE negative AND THE METAPHYSICAL ARE ALL REPRESENTED THROUGH THE STRUCTURE OF THE EXPO. THE middle BRIDGE WHICH ACTS AS THE ESSENCE OF THE Project IS DESIGNED TO BE THE MAIN SOCIAL AND GATHERING SPACE WHERE ALL THE VISITORS WOULD MEET AFTER going through the DIFFERENT exhibition spaces.
World Expo 2020 - Cairo Egypt
THROUGHOUT THIS PROJECT, THE AIM is ALWAYS TO EXPOSE THE STRUCTURE AND highlight Its Dominance WITHIN THE EXPO. THE CONCEPT OF HAVING TWO POLE WITH THE METAPHYSICAL BALANCING IN BETWEEN is REPRESENTED USING THE STRUCTURE WHERE THE FIRST ZONE WHICH IS FORMED OF AN ARCH WITH LIGHT CABLES WOULD REFLECT the human attempts to save the environment, ON THE OTHER HAND, the MASSIVE STEEL FRAMES ARRANGED IN WAY TO SHOW HEAVINESS, AND HENCE RELATE TO THE excessive use of energy, THE BRIDGE IN BETWEEN BALANCING THE SIDES where they both MEET TOGETHER IN A COMMON AREA AS A WAY OF INTERPRETING THE METAPHYSICAL ESSENCE. THE USER WOULD EXPERIENCE EACH SPACE SEPARATELY AND HAVE THE CHANCE TO FEEL THE AURA OF EACH space BEFORE GETTING on THE IN-BETWEEN BRIDGE. IN THE END, IT IS ALL DESIGNED FOR THE USERS' INTERACTION EITHER TOGETHER OR WITH THE SPACES WITHIN THE EXPO.
Main Elevation : cables and arch on the right side, frames on the left and the bridge in-between
THE overall STRUCTURE FADES AWAY FROM THE HEAVY ELEMENTS TO THE LIGHT ONES. THE MIDDLE BRIDGE IS HELD BY STEEL BEAMS THAT ARE SUSPENDED BY CABLES WHICH ARE ATTACHED TO THE MAIN ARCH. THIS ARCH IS ALSO HELD BY COUNTER CABLES THAT PREVENTS IT FROM FALLING DOWN. STEEL FRAMES AND BEAMS ARE LEFT EXPOSED AS A WAY OF HIGHLIGHTING THE MAIN STRUCTURE AND SHOWING ITS DOMINANCE OVER THE REST OF THE structure system.
World Expo 2020 - Cairo Egypt
Main Section through the whole building
Touristic attraction Platform
Culture Platform
Youth Platform
Sports Platform
Plan of the Spanish exhibition space
Sections through the Spanish Exhibition THE SPANISH EXHIBITION is DESIGNED TO HAVE FOUR PLATFORMS REPRESENTING YOUTH, CULTURE, SPORTS AND TOURISTIC ATTRACTIONS. THESE FOUR ELEMENTS REPRESENTS THE FOUR SOURCES OF ENERGY TO A COUNTRY LIKE SPAIN. World Expo 2020 - Cairo Egypt
The Structural skeleton of the building
World Expo 2020 - Cairo Egypt
World Expo 2020 - Cairo Egypt
Section Illustrating the tents overlayed on the structural frames
Section Illustrating the structural arch spanning the whole exhibition
World Expo 2020 - Cairo Egypt
Educational hospital - the American university in Cairo
Located within the American university in Cairo educational campus, the teaching hospital would be considered as an extension to the available education schools in the university. The project is designed to adopt the efficient, functional and technical aspects plus providing an interactive relaxing environment for the patients.
Educational Hospital - AUC
Main Section: THE SECOND FLOOR IS ALL ASSOCIATED WITH INPATIENT DEPARTMENT OF THE HOSPITAL HAVING ALL THE PATIENTS ROOMS AND ITS SERVICES. THE INPATIENT DEPARTMENT IS BY DEFAULT A SEPARATE Activity THAT SHOULD HAVE ITS OWN AREA AWAY FROM THE NOISES AND DISTURBANCE OF THE DAILY HOSPITAL Activities FOR THE COMFORT AND SERENITY OF THE DEPARTMENT'S RESIDENTS.
Main Elevation It is a combination of the classical stone facade following the rest of the AUC campus and the modern steel truss structure emphasising parts of the hospital main spaces.
Educational Hospital - AUC
Plaza Floor Plan
First Floor Plan Educational Hospital - AUC
Second Floor Plan
Basement Floor Plan Educational Hospital - AUC
CREATING a communal CENTRAL SPACES THAT Enhances THE PATIENTS' PSYCHOLOGICAL SIDE WHICH POSITIVELY Refl
lected ON THEIR HEALTH and recovery Educational Hospital - AUC
Work - live - sell units for artists
MASTER Plan Layout As a way of promoting art and artists, this project is about designing work, live and sell units for the artists. One could rent or buy this space as a private zone to concentrate on their art pieces before exhibiting them within the project. The design has a sustainable concept especially in the design of the exterior envelop of the units. Visitors are welcomed to the project to have a journey through an open art exhibit and enjoy a new experience
Work live sell artists' studios
Work live sell artists' studios
The main theme is to create comfortable interior spaces for the residents while at the same time help them show off their talents and advertise for their products. From a visitor's perspective, The project presents an adventurous experience who would be excited by the project's energetic journey exploring different artists' stories and their exhibited art pieces. THE IDEA WAS TO CREATE THREE DIFFERENT ZONES, A PUBLIC ONE FOR THE OWNER AND THE visitors COMING TO SEE THE EXHIBITED PIECES, A SEMI-PUBLIC SPACE FOR THE OWNER AND IF SOME visitors WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE PROCESS OF MAKING THE ART AND FINALLY THE THIRD ZONE FOR THE OWNER'S PRIVATE LIFE. The Exhibition area is located on the ground level for easy access by the visitors. Some products are to be displayed out doors as a way of advertising. The main Exhibition area is inside of the unit but the glass wall still allows the visitors to see the inside art pieces. Each Unit has a working studio space on the first floor which could fit a piece of machinery and a small drawing area. The living, resting and sleeping space is located on the second floor. There are plenty of outdoor terraces both on the first and second floor to be used by the artist for work or chilling at all time of the day.
Ground, first and second Floor Plans
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Solar Panel
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Building Block : Unit Formation IN THIS PROJECT, THE GENERAL CONCEPT EVOLVED FROM THE BASIC ELEMENT OF Many PROJECTS in Egypt WHICH IS A BRICK WALL. HOWEVER, THE DESIGN INTENDED TO CHALLENGE THE BASIC PERCEPTIONS concerning A typical WALL AND push THE DESIGN TO BENEFIT from THE most repeated unit in the project. The materials used are Sustainable and vary in place according to the functional need.
Section through the Ground, first and second Floor of a single unit Work live sell artists' studios
Ground Floor Plan It is very obvious how the ground floor appears to be more porous than the site master plan. That is because units are attached from the upper floors providing shaded ground level pathways all over the site. Each unit is meant to have its own identity and expresses itself uniquely, either through the exhibited pieces of art or the outer rotating wall elements.
Work live sell artists' studios
Section through multiple units on site Although all the units have the same design, the idea of the rotating wall provides each unit with its own theme and helps the project to appear having a mixture of styles yet at the same time harmonious from an architecture point of view. Each artist is free to use the wall units in the way they prefer, and so there are millions of options to express the mood or a certain art concept.
Units' Elevation
Work live sell artists' studios
View from one unit terrace overlooking the intermediate common space
Work live sell artists' studios