Rooftops from Wasted to Scarce Resource The Competition between Harvesting Crops and Solar Energy in Nasr City, Cairo Mai Adel Fathy Marzouk Supervisors: Mohamed A. Salheen, Professor of Integrated Planning and Design – Ain Shams University, Egypt Supervisor 2: Prof. Antje Antia Stokman, Professor of Landscape Planning and Ecology – University of Stuttgart, Germany Supervisor 3: Prof. Dr. Ahmed Atef Faggal, Professor of Architecture – Ain Shams University, Egypt External Advisor: Dr. Zakaria Yahia El Sayed, Researcher at Central Laboratory for Agricultural Climate – MALR, Egypt
Abstract The Cairene urban rooftops have only recently been perceived as potential resources by two competing technologies– the Agri-rooftops 1 and the PV-rooftops 2 that transform the rooftop space from the stagnating state of wasting into a new state of exploitation. This paper summarizes a thesis that aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of the potentials and constraints of the Agri and PV technologies’ adoption by the rooftops of residential buildings in Cairo. It is divided into three parts. Part I evaluates the current adoption
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