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ArchitecturE Urban Design Portfolio Dina Shehab
Dina Amin Shehab 1st September 1994 20, El Mansour Mohamed st., Zamalek, Cairo dina.shehab@gmail.com +2-01003737249 EDUCATION • 2012 - 2017 German University in Cairo Faculty of Engineering Major: Architecture Bachelor project a University for immigrants in Cascais, Portugal. Semester 6 abroad in GUC Berlin • 2012 Port Said School IGCSE, Zamalek
SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY • Autocad • Revit • Photoshop • Illustrator
• Indesign • Lightroom • Sketchup • Vray
• Lumion • Grasshopper 3D • Rhinoceros 3D (Kangroo plug-in) • Microsoft Office
LANGUAGES Arabic (Fluent)
English (Fluent)
German (Fair)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE • August 2017 - present Teaching Assistant in The Architecture and Urban Design Department in the German University in Cairo • July - August 2016 Internship at Dar Al-Handasah, Architecture Department, worked on Lusail Plaza Infrastructure, LRT Station, Public Car Park and Landscape designed by Norman Foster and Perkins in Lusail, Qatar. • August - September 2015 Internship at Space Consultants. Architecture Department. Worked on various projects. • June - July2014 Internship at SODIC Eastown. Project Management, rotated weekly on different departments; QS, planning, procurements, cost, contracts and construction site.
WORKSHOP • Febuary 2016 EWWUD (European Workshop Waterfront Urban Design) in ULHT, Lisbon Waterfront analysis and studies in Lisbon and Cascais, generated a methodology to contribute for sustainable development of waterfront cities relating to the workshop topic which was Migrations.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• 2014-2016 Worked in AIESEC Organization in GUC Exchange Program in Kenya, volunteered in Gateway School as a teacher (ages 6-12) | Worked in MENA XLDS (Middle East and North Africa Exchange and Leadership Development Seminar) as Social Media and Marketing head. • 2013 Fund Raising member in GUCMUN (German University in Cairo Model United Nations) • November 2013 Ushering member in SB’13 (Sustainable Building Conference) in Cairo, Egypt. • Ushering member in the Graduation’13 and ‘14 of the GUC • September 2011 Participated in JCIMAL (Junior Conference International Model Arab League) in AUC. • July 2011 People Power Multinational Program, Petra, Jordan. Hosted by Seeds of Peace. • July 2009 Seeds of Peace international Camp, Maine, USA. • July 2008 International Handball tournament with GSC in Spain • July 2007 International Handball tournament with GSC in Sweden • July 2000 - 2007 Junior Summer Program in AUC
Table of Contents Selected undergraduate work 2014-2017
DOKKI COURTYARDS
NEW GOURNA VILLAGE
PAVILION
MIGRATIONS
LOST TALES
SKETCHES
STILL ALICE
CAIRO UNSEEN
CAIRO RESIDENCE Dokki Courtyards
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The project’s site is situated in Dokki, Giza, a middle class residential area, it is located 2 kilometers west of the Nile bank, well connected to downtown Cairo through Tahrir street and a metro stop. The areas surrounding the site are having a high density of people and buildings, to the west of the site rests Bulaq al-Daqrur a very dense informal residential area. The aim of the project is to create a mixed use apartment housing for different target groups to attract el middle class and upper middle class people back to the city center away from the desert dream which lacks a great deal of services, economic facilities and being tied to a car is a necessity.
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The project envisions social integration between diverse societies, bringing attention and money back to the city center while providing public facilities and open green spaces which are intensely lacking. Dealing with different materials, software and hardware, a new building typology where diversity meets, gradually shifting from public to private. The project provides an open space to the neighborhood yet quality private spaces for the residents, thus designing a large open courtyard (central park) serving the whole neighborhood, connecting people from Dokki, Giza and Bulaq neighborhoods. It’s a residential complex with a footprint of 13,435 m2.
Final form
Building typologies
Informal settlements Industrial Apartment housing Schools Facilities
The project is a courtyard block with a variety of heights 8 floors apartment buildings in between them 5 floors apartment buildings, with towers of 16, 14 and 12 floors on the corners and the tallest tower is used as an office building. On the fifth floor, the roofs of the lower buildings serve as terraces to all residents with a connection throughout the block on the same floor. These roof terraces include small private gardens for residents to rent or buy and other parts more public. Moreover providing a large underground parking to accommodate the number the number of residents and visitors.
Transit Neighborhoods Secondary streets Main streets
Site within context
Urban analysis layers
Typical courtyard block
Developed form within context
Functions subdivisions
Typical unit form
Developed form
Site plan
Ground floor plan
Fifth floor accessibility plan
The ground floor includes services, restaurants, shops, library, gym, kindergarten and offices. Including elevated platforms to reduce the noise and being separated from the park. The park has multiple alleys in between connecting all entrances together, forming clusters through out the whole park each with a different functions – forest, kids area beside the kindergarten, small garden beside the library so people can sit and read, and another extended part for the restaurants. There are multiple entrances throughout the whole block through the buildings from the street to a foyer – small courtyard within the block – foyer and then to the park, allowing cross ventilation. Each 8-floor building has a courtyard within it with cascade stairs circumscribed the courtyard serving 6 apartments with different typologies to allow social integration.
Park analysis and functions
Typical unit typology
Studio apartment 50 - 70 m2
Cross Section B-B’
2 Bedroom apartment 90-120 m2
3 Bedroom apartment 150 - 180 m2
Typical interior block
Migrations
Diversity within Unity Bachelor Project
analyze LAYERS Immigration is now one of the main crises facing the world, new architectural strategies and new hybrid typologies must evolve to meet the needs of the refugees that are suffering. Portugal offered to host more than 4000 refugees, however they chose other countries because Portugal lacks the characteristics to build a new life. The Migration University along the pier of the marina of Cascais. The University of Cascais aims to provide an education facility and think tank for the refugee crisis. ‘Diversity within Unity’, the aim of this project is to provide a new landmark in Cascais to complement all the surrounding landmarks. The project envisions to create a space embracing the diversity of the world. It focuses on providing a large public space surrounding the university that offers social interaction, a space for the immigrants a. MIGRATION to display their identity and showcase their culture. The project creates a hybrid connection between the university, the public and the marina.
Portugal as an international center
Bike lane intervention
Layers of the urban fabric
Final form and landscape of the project
Pathways forming spaces along the pier and forming the University within those spaces
Concept The concept was to embed the project urban fabric of the city, taking the axis of the citadel wall and extending them along the pier highlighting the connection between the citadel, the university and the city also defining the urban pattern. The second step was the formation of pathways and the main promenade through those axis, the main promenade which is a direct access that connects the city with the ferry terminal accompanied with a set of trees on both sides forming an alley, and another access connecting from the citadel with the marina services. Furthermore, those pathways formed spaces along the pier creating the university within those spaces thus creating a spatial connection between the landscape and the architecture, while the negatives are the recreational spaces that are created as a public space. Each space is diverse in the shape and function, there is a part for the yachts, sailing boats and marina services, another part with wooden seating steps that can act as a performance space for the artists who want to show their work and to view the tournaments and other spaces serves as pocket parks where people can sit and read under the shade.
University Commercial Lecture Hall Administration Library Exhibition Hall Commercial Marina Services Axis forming pathways along the pier
Main promenade direction towards the ferry terminal Main axis towards the Marina
Axis from the citadel wall prolonged along the pier, showing connections to the city. Defining the urban pattern
Concept analysis
Form explosion
The site is on two different levels; the street level and then the pier of the marina, thus creating a sloped park from the street level till the pier level to mediate between the two levels with main staircase directly accessing to the main promenade that leads towards the ferry terminal, this is the main accessibility for the pedestrians. As for the cars and bikes accessibility is through ramps on both sides of the park. The university is embedded in the stepped park and can be accessed through both levels, a person can either access the first floor directly from the street level or access the ground floor through the main stairs or the sloped park. The concept of the bending form is that each part of the building connects to a different part of the city and views a landmark of Cascais, so whether you are in the Library, studios, sitting in an office or having a cup of coffee in the cafeteria you will be experiencing a different perspective or looking at an astonishing landmark, whether it is the Lighthouse, Cascais Cidadela or Fundação D. Luis I, thus providing a special quality of diversity. In addition to the diversity of the architecture itself; that each floor has a different form, shape and function as shown in the form explosion diagram. Moreover the building creates multiple spaces as it bends, consequently creating an inner courtyard that helps ease the flow of the people to catch the ferry through the main promenade that cuts through the building, also used as a shaded space where people can sit, read, or have a cup of coffee as most of the commercial activities are on the ground floor serving on the courtyard.
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Residents of local tourists Cascais (High class)
Locals
locals
Tourists tourists
Fishermen fishermen
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Water sport watersport international locals and athletes tourists
Boat boatTourists tourists
DIFFERENT DiverseATTRACT users of the marina
WAVE PROTECTION
USERS
Master plan
Form development
Final model
Ground floor plan
First floor plan
Second floor plan
The main concept of the planing phase was to emphasize on the continuity of the people’s flow while they are experiencing the space, having a very easy accessibility to anyone inside or outside of the building. The idea was following Le Corbusier’s concept of The Architectural Promenade. “A true architectural promenade [offers] constantly changing views, unexpected, [and] at times surprising” - Le Corbusier. In consequence the building offers new perspectives and experiences every time it bends, it provides different orientations to the city, different functions inside the building, and different lighting situations, it creates a transition and hybridization between the interior and the exterior, between the university and the city.
Section
Ground floor University Commercial Marina Services Administration
First floor
Second floor
Zoning and circulation of the plans
North-East elevation
STILL ALICE STAGE DESIGN
Stage Design was an elective course that focused on the visual design of a stage. We studied light and space, interaction with the space, elements and characters. The narrative interpretation with the design of the set and the movement on the stage. The stage design was for the novel “Still Alice” written by Lisa Genova about a 50- year-old woman suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The project is divided into three scenes, the first scene shows some of the characters in Alice’s life and the change of her perception of them throughout the disease. From a metaphoric concept the characters throughout the scene are static while Alice is dynamic as it shows how she is the only one changing in such a short time.
struggle
lost fear
“Look us in the eye, talk directly to us”
misplace
“ I am not someone dying. I am someone living with Alzheimer’s”
repitition memory Loss
“ Even when I feel completely normal, I know I’m not. It’s not over, it’s just a rest. I don’t trust myself. ”
The main idea of the play is to show the struggle between Alice and Alzheimer’s by objectifying it into a fabric. The material is opaque yet shows the shape underneath it as it resembles how Alzheimer’s eats up the surroundings of the patient and leaves it unrecognized, it leaves the patient disoriented and lost, A person living with Alzheimer’s can’t even identify himself or the people surrounding him. The fabric represents the three stages of Alzheimer’s in the play: disorientation in relation to the surroundings, struggling with the accelerated development of Alzheimer’s, and the third stage which is acceptance and becoming a part of her identity.
“I often fear tomorrow. What if I wake up and don’t know who my husband is? What if I don’t know where I am or recognize myself in the mirror? When will I no longer be me?”
“ I live for each day, I live in the moment, I have Alzheimer’s disease.” The play’s vision starts with a grid that represents the routine of Alice’s daily life, with the people in her life as static figures and Alice is only the dynamic character. Then emerges the fabric consequently showing the accelerated development of Alzheimer’s. In transition covering up all the characters and surroundings in her life leaving Alice struggling and suffocating her as it wraps around her body. The play ends with Alice’s acceptance of her disease as it becomes a part of who she is.
“ You have Alzheimer’s disease. You have lost too much of yourself, too much of what you love and you’re not living the life you want to live.”
NEW GOURNA VILLAGE REDEVELOPMENT ARCHUTECTURE AND URBAN ESIGN
New Gourna Village Model
GREEN BELT STRATEGY FOR GREATER LUXOR After several studies and interviews we concluded that the major problems and issues in Luxor are lack of tourism and unemployment. The vision for greater Luxor is to create a green belt through the most important aspect in Luxor and surrounding areas which is its heritage, the main monuments, museums, temples, etc. The green belt will act as a route directing people from one heritage site to the other making them go through several experiences. The concept of the green belt is to encourage tourism and job opportunities and enhance the economy of Egypt as a whole by creating diverse elements such as markets, public spaces, wetlands, cultural hubs, bike lanes and green walkable areas through out this green belt.
Bike route Green belt
Strategic diagram showing connections and proposed functions
Green belt strategy TRANSIT & CULTURAL Eco-transportation & bike lanes connecting all heritage sites
Sustainability strategy proposal
SOCIAL Public Spaces
Open spaces diagram
Map showing an example of a tourist route ECONOMIC Markets and productive wetlands
Tourists attractions missed
Calculated walking and cycle distances
ENVIRONMENTAL Luxor as a resilient city - Green Luxor
New Gourna Village is located in Luxor on the West Bank of the River Nile, within the world heritage property of ancient thebes in Egypt. The village was designed and built by the famous Egyptian Architect Hassan Fathy between 1946 and 1952 to shelter the community of Old Gourna. Old Gourna was situated above the tombs in the ancient cemetery of thebes so the relocation of the Gourniis was a necessary solution to reduce the damages of the remains of the Pharaonic Period. New Gourna’s main characteristics consist of using local materials and techniques, ‘vernacular Architecture’ which is based on the philosophy of appropriate technology and sustainability. The UNESCO highlighted a conservation area within the core of the village.
Original Thoroughfare
Main Streets
Future Implementations
Realized area from original master plan, showing main axis and future implementations.
Main promenade
Interventions
Secondary Promenade
Proposed commercial
Main public buildings
Hassan Fathy’s buildings
New main axis and restoration of public buildings
Main street plan
Plan and section of the main street
Proposed interventions
Master plan of New Gourna
Public space renovation
The main vision of the project is to revive New Gourna Village to it’s once belonged state, to attract tourists, provide job opportunities in the village, enhance it’s economy, urbanize the village and to re-envision the architecture marvel of Hassan Fathy, also to restore the deteriorating houses where people live and the functions of the public buildings of New Gourna (The mosque, el khan, theater, Village Hall and crafts exhibition). Moreover adding architecture interventions that will add value to the village. Architecture Center with a library, workshops and research labs to invite students and architects from all over the world to learn form Hassan Fathy’s architecture, develop, restore and revive the village. Hostel; creating a hostel with an environmentally friendly atmosphere to encourage people to stay, work and to promote for sustainable architecture. Housing; due to the fact that the village reached the maximum capacity, and the rapid increase in the informal buildings, therefore new housing typologies are needed. The hostel and housing are built on agricultural land thus the aim is to elevate the buildings on pillars to not ruin the function of the land, while making use of the space.
El khan renovation proposal
Main promenade
Pre-treatment
Desalination
Pre-treatment
Urban section with proposed drainage system
Gravel to prevent ground water leakage
Mudbrick bus stop proposal
Solution for ground water problem
The existing buildings are ruined due to the poor maintenance, inadequate material of construction (mud bricks and limestone foundations) and undefined landscape. Therefore a renovation for the heritage areas is needed through using new sustainable materials and techniques that will be a solution for the deterioration of the village and will prevent further consequences by using gravel to solve the drainage problems, wetlands to have a suitable sewage system, using suitable landscape materials adequate for the climatic conditions, since the aim is to revive the village.
Promenade plans and sections
Architecture Intervention HOSTEL The project’s main aim is to provide a hostel to encourage researchers, architects and tourists to come stay in New Gourna. Thus enhancing the economy and reviving New Gourna’s identity, the hostel aims to provide an environmentally friendly atmosphere for people to work and get inspired from the surrounding architecture. The hostel’s form is restored from Hassan Fathy’s lost work of the original master plan that was not realized. The form’s main concept focuses on well ventilation and accessibility from the main promenade, it has a visual connection with the market, mosque, agriculture fields, canal and other main elements in the village.
Site
Site plan
Form definition
Courtyard
Ventilation
Hostel within context
Accessibility
East Elevation
Secondary entrance to the hostel - Courtyard Valley of the Kings Sun dried tomato fields Mosque
Agriculture fields
El-Khan
Theatre Main public space
Main promenades
Main street
Market
Canal
It is a complimentary function that serves the architecture center and is raised on pillars to avoid ruining the agricultural fields. The overall aim of the village is to promote for sustainable architecture through using appropriate materials such as mudbricks but with a concrete structure.
Main streets to promenades
Hostel accessibility
Views of the main elements in the village from the hostel Hostel Second floor First floor
Administration Arcades Lobby Hostel
South elevation - inner courtyard
Form explosion
Agriculture field / Raised on columns
LUXOR URBAN INTERVENTION EXHIBITION
LOST TALES FROM PROMISED FUTURES VISUAL DESIGN ELECTIVE
This was a visual design course that emphasized on the lost tales of our society, the lost visions and the question of utopia. We extracted scenarios and critically explored the possibility of utilizing what we see as wrong or absurd in creating visionary utopic narratives aiming for a remedial response. The project’s vision was to imagine a scenario from the daily life struggle happening nowadays; SEGREGATION. Imagining Zamalek in Cairo as a gated island only for the aristocrats and prohibiting the low class from accessing it. Graphically emphasizing the scenario by imagining a wall with watch towers on the edge of the island with a metaphoric contrast between the people inside the island, the people outside and how they live by taking elements from real life events. Viewing the proletarians life struggles and how they hope that one day they will reach what they believe is their utopia while the aristocrats ignoring what is happening outside their small island. Until one day the proletarians sought for equality, took a step towards their utopic vision and revolted against the aristocrats, ending this monocracy.
There was a time where the words “Unity, Liberty, Fraternity” were just ideas never dared to be crossed into the minds of those less vulnerable. Times were devastating; it devoured on the hopes people acquired to reach the term equality.
As time ate away the aspirations and replaced it with despair, the people were consumed with the darkness of this plague in which they slowly accepted. Unfortunately Walls started to erect from the ground separating families and loved ones; creating gaps with no bridges between them.
However, this wasn’t a simpler time and the less fortunate wanted a taste of the Utopian life the wealthy were living.
“Here lies the King and Queen of utter segregation; Here lies the metaphor of destruction”
Had it been a simpler time where everything is left to breathe in it’s natural order, people would be satisfied to be abandoned peacefully to perform their daily task; which is survive. One never dared to think what it was like to belong in the highest of breed, people simply abided by what has been spelt out for them since the day they were born; but they dared to hope & only hope.
Attempts to take the steps toward the Utopic idea were in motion, any means were considered, people had one thing and one thing only on their mind; reaching what is on the opposite end of the bridge to reach the dream of Equality.
The people had enough of dreaming of what they always associated with being impossible, one voice stirred the roars of the oppressed. People started gathering following the one voice, deep within them, unheard and unattended to. Trying to have the simplest sense of what the other side feels like.
Triumph was born as the walls were brought down. The long awaited dream was achieved, the once less vulnerable has now withheld the beacon of Unity, Equality & Liberty. The Utopic idea was buried deep in their minds with the words “Here lies the King and Queen of utter segregation; Here lies the metaphor of destruction�.
CAIRO UNSEEN CAIRO GOES GREEN
“The dynamic state of landscape reforms according to the varying necessities of human needs and their power of controlling.� This statement was concluded after studies about landscape in Cairo. Considering how Cairo transforms throughout different periods, the project tackles how this adaptation could aid in preserving a better future for Cairo. The vision of this project is to transform 6th of October bridge in Cairo as an urban public space, with efficient public transportation along with the creation of an elevated park.
100% CONGESTION
100% GREEN
Cairenes, Sponsors and NGOs contributed in funding the project
NGOs initiated campaigns through billboards
and through a mobile application
People transformed the bridge into a green spine
6th of October bridge connects Cairo to Giza, it is 20.5 km long and ranges between 14-35 wide, it passes among so many neighborhoods and crosses a great deal of attraction sites (The Egyptian Museum, Cairo Tower, Ramsis Train Station, Tahrir square, etc.) However the situation now is that it is nearly always congested. Imagining Cairo after 20 years with more congestion that the bridge cannot hold thus the project aims to prevent individual car traffic from accessing the bridge, and allowing a more pedestrian and bike friendly Cairo with the addition of trolley buses over the bridge. Also having workshops, playscapes and plant nurseries under the bridge. Cairo is a city with great obstacles yet great potential. The project grasps Cairo’s major issues which are represented in the congestion, pollution, lack of green spaces and so on, providing long-term solutions using the most powerful factor of the city, The People. People are the driving force of the project since they are the most resilient element. Observing the world moving towards sustainability, a future scope for Cairo’s own version will be introduced through the 6th of October bridge. Passing through three phases which are awareness, education and implementation. Through awareness, people will be encouraged to improve their lifestyle by turning Cairo greener and then educated on being productive and self-sufficient. Through the implementation citizens will be able to produce their own products, get a better chance for commuting and will develop a healthy routine in their lives. The project aims for a sustainable, efficient approach, therefore there are main four main elements for designing which are Social, Economy, Environment and Transit. Creating a green network The bridge acting as the starting point spreading through the neighborhoods
Existing images of the bridge
Elements of sustainability
Plan of the design proposal in Tahrir
Section showing activities over and under the bridge (Play scape, workshops and plant nursery)
Section showing the vertical connection of the bridge (different types of workshops and their skylights)
PARAMETRIC DESIGN PAVILION
This project’s aim was to redesign and regenerate an existing building with its same functions (two courtyards with a connection in the middle) into a pavilion through Grasshopper 3D and Rhino program. The aim was to generate a parametric building envelope using multiple surfaces and curves with planar pattern openings as the 3D skin of the building. Then developed the form into a 3D printing model.
Top view
Render shots
Grasshopper 3D
SKETCHES
EMAIL dina.shehab@gmail.com MOBILE +2-01003737249 ADDRESS 20, El Mansour Mohamed st., Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt.