ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO selected works
MANAR KARAM
Minimalism is beyond time. It is the stillness of perfection. - Massimo Vignelli One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time it is like life starting all over again.
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Light never knew how good it was until it struck the side of the building. - Louis I. Kahn
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– Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
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Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.
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– Renzo Piano
a city out of control a city of multitude logics a city of layers
The German University in Cairo | Architecture and Urban Design Studio SPIINE ARCHITECTS Urban and Environmental Planners
V I A T E
Manar Karam Aly Born on 15 May 1994 Manar.aly@guc.edu.eg Manarkaramm15@gmail.com PERSONAL INFORMATION Architecural designer with a Master's degree in Architecture and Urban Design, from The German University in Cairo. Current PhD. candidate working on Environmental Urban Planning policies and applications in Egypt. Received my Bachelor Degree from Stuttgart University in Germany collaboratively with the German University in Cairo. EDUCATION 2020-current
2017-2019
PhD Candidate Faculty of Engineering and Material Sciences Architecture and Urban Design Program German University in Cairo Masters degree MSc. Faculty of Engineering and Material Sciences Architecture and Urban Design Program German University in Cairo collaborative supervision: Ain Shams University
2012-2017
Bachelor Degree BSc. Faculty of Engineering and Material Sciences Architecture and Urban Design Program German University in Cairo
2009-2012
IGCSE Degree The Egyptian British International School New Cairo
2001-2009
Manarat El Maadi International School
C U R R I C U L U M
PROFESSIONAL CAREER 2017-2021 September 2017-2021
Teaching Assistant at the German University in Cairo - Current Faculty of Engineering and Material Sciences Architecture and Urban Design Program
2019-2021
Freelance Architect at Spine Architects Urban and Environmental Planners - Current Specialized in concept design and landscape
2017-2019
Collaborative work with Schaduf Landscaping (constructive research work)
2016
Training in OekoPlan Landscaping Dr. Tarek Sobhy Dr. Tamer El Khorazaty Trianing in Spine Architects
SOFTWARE SKILLS +++++ ++++ +++ +++ ++ ++++ ++ ++++ +++++
Autocad Sketchup Rhioceros 3D iMovie Revit Indesign Illustrator Photoshop MS Office
LANGUAGE Arabic English
Mother language Native/ bilingual
SKILLS AND ACTIVITIES Photography Walking Music Styling Materials
Painting Mapping Illustrating Physical Model Making
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Displaying a brief on design studios I have been teaching through out some students work
DESIGN STUDIOS - PREMASTER STUDENTS (SEMESTERS 9 AND 10) - VERTICAL VACANCIES ADAPTIVE REUSE OF THE VACANT NILE TOWERS - ZAAFARANA NEW CITY A NEW CITY BY THE RED SEA - NEW OASIS - DEVELOPING NEW LIVING MODELS IN FAYOUM AND MOGHRA INNOVATIVE GREEN LIVING CONCEPTS - FLASH FLOODS DESERT CITY NEW URBAN SETTLEMENTS IN NEW CAIRO
LIST OF COURSES I HAVE BEEN TEACHING AFTER OBTAINING MY MASTER DEGREE (MAY 2019):
- DAHAB ISLAND REGENERATIVE DESIGN APPROACH
I have been teaching 4 semesters before obtaining my masters degree and 4 semesters after obtaining the degree: |
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Design StudioVI semester 9 (graduation year)
Design StudioVII semester 10 (graduation year)
Introduction to Urban Planning Semester 5
Visual Design Semester 2
WS 2020
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Design Studio V semester 5
Renewable Energy BTECH semester 10
Ecology and Environmental Control Systems semester 5
Theory of Urban Planning ARCH semester 10
Project Management and Construction Management semester 5
ADVANCED THEORY OF URBAN PLANNING
SS 2021
- CITIES OF THE MIND: GAZA/ GERUSALEM HYBRID - ELEMENTS OF THE CITY: THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION
VISUAL DESIGN - INVISIBLE CITIES (2021- 2020)
Visual Deesign semester 2
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEMS
C O N T E N T
WS 2019
- BUILDING SOLAR PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT - LADYBUG SOFTWARE
This portfolio displays a number of selected projects as a small insight into my work. Projects are not shown in full completeness.
PORTOFOLIO
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SAMPLE STUDENTS' WORK
ACADEMIC
01 PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
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PRACTICAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Displaying a brief on projects I have taken part in as a design team member and concept developer. Job description: free-lance architect at Spine Architects, Urban and Environmental Planners, Egypt. Specialized in concept design, architecture and landscape design development. This includes coordinations with multiple deciplines as well as site experience.
SELECTED PROJECTS AND DESIGNS
- Sharm El Sheikh City Council complex and Central Park - Dahab Tourist Residence Project - Horseback Riding Complex: Al Rahman Mosque - Al Dakhla Hospital
C O N T E N T
01 PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
UNDERGRAD STUDENT WORK
Displaying a brief on projects I have worked on as an Architeture and Urban Design Student - New Capital Urban Center Urban center of a contemporary hybrid design - Luxor Green Belt Pre-master urban design project developing the sphinxes avenue and the Nile River Corniche - Migrant City STUTTGART bachelor project Tackeling urban and architectural scales - Berlin Art Museum A design project designed in BERLIN bachelor project contemporary art museum design - Berlin Workshop Building Reuse - Cairo Restoration Center (Integrated Project)
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LANDSCAPING EGYPT; FROM THE AESTHETIC TO THE PRODUCTIVE (BOOK - COAUTHOR/CONTRIBUTOR) MASTERS: Cairo Nile Pedestrian Network, a Megapolitan Waterfront Regeneration Approach PhD _ CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS: Environmental Planning in Egypt- A Case Study on South Sinai Cities This portfolio displays a number of selected projects as a small insight into my work. Projects are not shown in full completeness.
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1.1. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Displaying a brief on design studios I have been teaching through out some students work
ACADEMIC
PORTFOLIO
DESIGN STUDIOS - PREMASTER STUDENTS (SEMESTERS 9 AND 10)
ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIOS
VERTICAL VACANCIES
ADAPTIVE REUSE OF THE VACANT NILE TOWERS 10TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK Prof. Dr. Cornelia Redeker - Youssef Ayman
ACADEMIC
PORTFOLIO
DESIGN STUDIOS - PREMASTER STUDENTS (SEMESTERS 9 AND 10)
DESIGN STUDIOS - PREMASTER STUDENTS (SEMESTERS 9 AN
EXICTING SITUATION : 4 Appartments that holds max 4 families . PROPOSED PLAN : 14 Studio with various sizes.
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TYPES OF STUDIOS | Holds over 20 Person with affordable housing system. 1
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Double Room Studio Number of studios: 5 Area: 70 - 85 m2
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Single Room Studio Number of studios : 9
13TH FLOOR PLAN 1:200 > Double room > Single room
Area: 50 m2
1) Single Room Studios 2) Double Room Studios 3) Kitchen 4) Shared Dinning Room 5) Shared Living Room 6) Toilets 7) Storages
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Shared Living room
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FACADE LAYERS
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ROOF LAYERS
Part of Facade Layer SHARED LIVING ROOM SHOT
Facade detail 1
Hollow Beam Water Pips Wire Mesh Substrate For Plants
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ACADEMIC
Wire structure is mostly used on the north and south facade for climbing trees
VERTICAL VACANCIES
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Plants Soil 30 cm Filter layer 2 cm Drainage layer 4 cm Thermal insulation 4 cm Water proofing 2 cm Protection board 2 cm Oc slab 30 cm
Facade detail 2
pip for plants Water Pipes Beam For Structure Wire For Climbers
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Green Wooden structures Soil Roof top
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Mesh structure is used on the north facade for planting trees for the fresh food market
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
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1) Outdoor Fresh Food Restuirant 2) Indoor Fresh Food Restuirant 3) Fresh Food Market 4) Office 5) Toilets 6) Kitchen 7) Fruits Room 8) Refrigerator 9) Storages
ADAPTIVE REUSE OF THE VACANT NILE TOWERS
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10TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK Prof. Dr. Cornelia Redeker - Nermeen - Radwa
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PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE SHOT
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Fresh Food Market
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ZONING
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DEEP SECTION A-A - 3.00
Indoor Fresh Food Resturant
Outdoor Fresh Food Resturant
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German University in Cairo Architecture and Urban Design Program / DESIGN STUDIO VII / Spring 2018 Cornelia Redeker, Noha Salama, Shaza Ayman, Ibrahim Hany, Yousra Malek, Manar Karam
Radwa Ghoniem/ 31-9941 Nermin Ehab / 31- 5309
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e site has many good potentials as it’s facing the Nile river and the zone is quite not like the area surrounding the place. But the area suffers from vacancies and it’s almost abandoned. So the aim of the project is to open up new possibilities for vacant land and towers. we should look beyond the city’s borders at a regional scale, a neighborhood’s vacant lots �t into a bigger picture of investment and planning around roads, waterfronts, and tourism. e project attempt to enhance the quality of life in this area by making it more sustainable and eco-friendly environment which means Horizontal and vertical green expansion. And that could be achieved by expanding the green all over the area and creating new opportunities for residence of the area. e design aims to create a neighborhood lifestyle with an additive food system.
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
e principle of reducing, reusing, and recycling natural and man-made materials is followed. is project demonstrates how we can live and design with nature. Original vegetation and natural habitats were preserved; just as only native plants were used throughout. Developing a vision for a low-density residential neighborhoods settled among a network of productive landscape, tree nurseries, and wetlands while developing places where people and nature thrive over time. As part of the strategy to link the sites for economic development, the design proposes eco-friendly environment, plazas, markets, and productive landscape that could operate collaboratively.
8 Shading element Bamboo Curtain wall glass 1cm Air space 1.5cm Curtain wall glass 1cm Mullion 16cm
Bamboo Workshop
Interlocking Tiles 8cm Equipments Room Mortar 2cm Sand 4cm Ordinary concrete slab 10cm Compact soil
To create apportunities for vacant towers , the desgin proposes a plan that includes: - Bamboo market which is sells the products made from the bamboo that is harvest from the wetlands. - Bamboo workshop that gives job opportunites for the residents of the neighborhood and teaches them the products that can be made from bamboo. -Fresh food market and restaurant that offers a new experience for people to cultivate, grow, harvest and eat their own food. - Luxurious Double and single room studios that provides people with affordable housing system. Users are newly married, students, singles and small famillies.
Skirting 10cm SECOND FLOOR Granite Tiles 2cm
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Mortar 2cm Sand 4cm R.C Slab 10cm
1:200
1) Bambo Workshop 2) Equipments Room 3) Workshop Class 4) Toilets 5) Storages 6) Offices 7) Kitchen 8) Cafetria
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Skirting 10cm Mosaco Tiles 2cm Mortar 2cm Sand 4cm Ordenary concrete slab 10cm Water Proofing 2cm Ordenary concrete slab 15cm Compact Soil
SECTION FACADE
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Bamboo is used as a sun breaker mostly on the East facade, as these shade materials are perfect for shade tarps, windscreens, sun screens and more as they are Flexible, lightweight materials and especially great shade.
Curtain wall Bamboo
FIRST FLOOR
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PLAN
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Platform For the fresh food restaurant, designed for people to set and enjoy the view of the productive landscape and nile and eating fresh food that is cultivated from the land.
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Bamboo Market
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Roof Farming Hotel GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1:200
Studios Residentials
1) Tower Entrance 2) Existing Mosque 3) Offices 4) Toilets 5) Bamboo Market
Fresh Food Market /Resturant Bamboo Workshop
GROUND FLOOR
Bamboo Market Existing Mosque
EAST ELEVATION
PROGRAME CONCEPT | Horizontally
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SITE ANALYSIS:
1:150
WEST ELEVATION
1:150
ACADEMIC
PORTFOLIO
DESIGN STUDIOS - PREMASTER STUDENTS (SEMESTERS 9 AND 10)
VERTICAL VACANCIES
ADAPTIVE REUSE OF THE VACANT NILE TOWERS 10TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK Prof. Dr. Cornelia Redeker - Ethar Amr - Yara Essam
ACADEMIC
PORTFOLIO
DESIGN STUDIOS - PREMASTER STUDENTS (SEMESTERS 9 AND 10)
ZAAFARANA NEW CITY A NEW CITY BY THE RED SEA
10TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK Prof. Dr. Cornelia Redeker
ACADEMIC
PORTFOLIO
DESIGN STUDIOS - PREMASTER STUDENTS (SEMESTERS 9 AND 10)
ZAAFARANA NEW CITY A NEW CITY BY THE RED SEA
10TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK Prof. Dr. Cornelia Redeker - Ziyad Waasef
ACADEMIC
PORTFOLIO
DESIGN STUDIOS - PREMASTER STUDENTS (SEMESTERS 9 AND 10)
ZAAFARANA NEW CITY A NEW CITY BY THE RED SEA
10TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK Prof. Dr. Cornelia Redeker - Sarah Done
ACADEMIC
PORTFOLIO
DESIGN STUDIOS - PREMASTER STUDENTS (SEMESTERS 9 AND 10)
NEW OASIS - MOGHRA
INNOVATIVE GREEN LIVING CONCEPTS 10TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK Prof. Dr. Cornelia Redeker Youssef - Roubair
ACADEMIC
PORTFOLIO
DESIGN STUDIOS - PREMASTER STUDENTS (SEMESTERS 9 AND 10)
NEW OASIS - MOGHRA
INNOVATIVE GREEN LIVING CONCEPTS 10TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK Prof. Dr. Cornelia Redeker Nourhan Hatem - Farah Bahaa
ACADEMIC
PORTFOLIO
DESIGN STUDIOS - PREMASTER STUDENTS (SEMESTERS 9 AND 10)
NEW OASIS - FAYOUM
INNOVATIVE GREEN LIVING CONCEPTS 10TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK ZIYAD WASSEF
ACADEMIC
PORTFOLIO
DESIGN STUDIOS - PREMASTER STUDENTS (SEMESTERS 9 AND 10)
Flash Floods Desert Cities NEW URBAN SETTLEMENTS IN NEW CAIRO 10TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK Prof. Dr. Cornelia Redeker Donia - Lama - Zeina
ACADEMIC
PORTFOLIO
DESIGN STUDIOS - PREMASTER STUDENTS (SEMESTERS 9 AND 10)
Flash Floods Desert Cities NEW URBAN SETTLEMENTS IN NEW CAIRO 10TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK Prof. Dr. Cornelia Redeker Hania- Lyian - Menna - Nadeen
ACADEMIC
PORTFOLIO
DESIGN STUDIOS - PREMASTER STUDENTS (SEMESTERS 9 AND 10)
Flash Floods Desert Cities NEW URBAN SETTLEMENTS IN NEW CAIRO 10TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK Prof. Dr. Cornelia Redeker Nadeen - Salma - Rahma - Nour
ACADEMIC
PORTFOLIO
DESIGN STUDIOS - PREMASTER STUDENTS (SEMESTERS 9 AND 10)
DAHAB ISLAND
REGENERATIVE DESIGN APPROACH 9TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK Prof. Dr. Cornelia Redeker Farah Sabbour
Nichole Ghattas
ACADEMIC
PORTFOLIO
ADVANCED THEORY OF URBAN PLANNING
CITIES OF THE MIND
GAZA/GERUSALEM HYBRID 10TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK Prof. Dr. Ruairi Obrien
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO ADVANCED THEORY OF URBAN PLANNING
Lamis - Hana
Ahmed Hesham - Khaled Awad
Sarah - Yasmine
Marwan - Mariam - Youssef
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO ADVANCED THEORY OF URBAN PLANNING
Ali
Narmine - Salma
Mariam - Salma
Marium - Naamatallah
ADVANCED THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN | SS2021 | ASSOC. PROF. RUAIRI O’BRIEN | TAs: MSc. MANAR KARAM - BSc. MAHMOUD SAMIR
MICRO MAP
EXPLORING
To appreciate the work of Buckminster Fuller, we should mention the many aspects and many designs he implemented in such a time zone. First by introducing the idea of the Dymaxion World Map, Fuller used to glue a number of table tennis balls, and after that he’d glue the world map on it, and will cut the world map through the lines that the balls create, creating the Dymacion World Map, for him it represents the leadership of the countries in the world, also showing power, politics and leadership. Being a navy in sometime of his career Fuller always wanted to help with everything that includes his country. He started to use the same method as the Dymaxion World Map by creating dunes with the same idea of the table tennis balls where it could be used in multi areas such as homes, protection for soldiers, protection for the navy ships, he also discussed the idea to cover a whole city with a dune at one time. Fuller also thought about the earth as a spaceship that it’s so delicate that we should always act right to save this spaceship, one wrong decision can cause destruction to this ship. As he mentioned that the earth these upcoming years would face danger, such as energy consumption and air pollution that would cause a large number of deaths a year. He thought about that for an individual to live right an individual should work to 6 aspects and should gain them, Astronomy, Demography, Geology, Geography, Economics, Climatology. Each one of these aspects would create a good environment for an individual.
EPHEMERALIZATION Ephemeralization is the term coined by Fuller to express the drive to use less material for greater results such as for housing and his geodesic domes. Fuller developed this philosophy partly in reaction to the philosophy of Thomas Malthus. Thomas Malthus felt that the finite resources of planet earth coupled with the increase of human population would eventually result in a running out of resources for the human race. Buckminster Fuller disagreed and felt that technology, improved design, and engineering would help to allow mankind to use the existing resources more efficiently causing greater output with decreased input. His goal was to do «more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing. He looked to Henry Ford’s assembly line as an example of ephemeralization where efficient design was used to increase productivity. Generally, technology increases ephemeralization such as the steam ship replacing wooden sailing ships allowing for faster sea travel. Computers and computing power is also an example of ephemeralization. Based on Moores Law (named after Intel founder Gordon E. Moore), the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every two years. As a result, computers that used to take up entire rooms have gotten progressively smaller over the past few decades. In spite of speculation that Moore›s Law may have reached it›s physical limits, designers and engineers continue to find ways to increase computing power enforcing the principle of ephemeralization
Fuller as a military Designer: As mentioned before that fuller was a navy at somepoint of his career he wanted to help his military against others. He started to creat domes made out of cardboard paper easy to build that the soldiers can use for shelter in the woods and if neccessary they can keep behind. Giving them a asafe place to sleep in or hide in and also easy to assemble and di-assemble. Also he designed a dome that can be used on military ships to also give shelter to the helicopters and soldiers stayin on it that is already assembles and is put there by a helicopter. He also tried to partner Hemmings for a car that can be used by soldiers, In 1933, he unveiled the Dymaxion car, a revolutionary failure. It resembled, somewhat, a Zeppelin gondola on wheels. With passenger capacity for 11, the three-wheeled Dymaxion car could be U-turned in its own length via a single, steerable rear wheel. It used an 85-hp Ford flathead V-8 mounted at the rear. Almost as soon as it was rolled out, the Dymaxion was involved in a demonstration at the Chicago World’s Fair when it crashed, killing its driver. Investors, who allegedly had been pitching Fuller’s design to Chrysler, pulled out in a panic. To this day, some proponents of Fuller’s work claim the project was sabotaged out of fears the Dymaxion would immediately relegate all other cars to obsolescence. Only three such cars were built, and just one authentic, original example is known to survive today. The Dymaxion car is known, however, to have been an inspiration for the postwar Fiat Multipla wagon, itself a successful early interpretation of what came to be known, decades later, as the minivan.
CONCLUDING
Bauhaus to Ecohouse
Pierre Bourdieu is arguably one of the twentieth century’s greatest socio-philosophical thinkers and his writings have much to offer anyone interested in the ways that people value, consume and produce architecture. Bourdieu spent much of his life attempting to understand cultural consumption and production through detailed empirical research that included studies of dwellings, art, museums, photography and aesthetics.
Peder Anker From: Bauhaus to Ecohouse (2010)
Interpreted By:Khaled Awad | 40-16561
Bauhaus to Ecohouse| Interpreted by: Khaled Awad
ADVANCED THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN | SS2021 | ASSOC. PROF. RUAIRI O’BRIEN | TAs: MSc. MANAR KARAM - BSc. MAHMOUD SAMIR
Bourdieu for Architects| Interpreted by: Khaled Awad Advanced Theory of Architecture and Urban Design | SS2021
Lamis Ahmed
ELEMENTS OF THE CITY THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION 10TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK Prof. Dr. Ruairi Obrien UNDERSTANDING
Karl popper an Austrian-British philosopher, he prefere the traditions and critic the utopian vision, as he believes that the traditions convey the reality of the people and express the society with it’s authenticity . But the point is, Popper when he mentioned the traditions he considered only one asspect which is the values and the qualities. However, the traditions include also the sciences and the theories which is considered as the foundation of the traditions. No black and white. The authors believe tradition cannot be understood independent ofscience. Even science has an anti-empirical aspect, that of hypothesis. Hypothesis,which questions science in its non-performance. It is hypothesis which in turn finds facts about science from the other side. What hypothesis provides for science is similar to what tradition provides for society. Tradition has an association of betrayal to the original; it is always relayed, translated, and taken further from the original. And as the author have mentioned the utopian vision is not capable of offering solutions on it›s own. Therefore, the author concluded that the best sinario is that modernity should depend on both traditions and utopian vision togather.
Tradition
The Collage City
Utopia
Hana Sayed
Modernity Both tradition & utopia
Only Traditions
Each of the traditions and the utopian vision has it’s own quality and both should merge in creating the modern vision
Traditions is what shows the origonality of the society authentically Karl Popper
Colin Rowe
Tradition VALUES & QUALITIES
SCIENCES & THEORIES
TRADITIONS AS VALUES ONLY
TRADITION IS BOTH
Need to question all assumptions and values of science and scientific method
No black and white.The authors believe tradition cannot be understood (/does not exist) independent ofscience.
Karl Popper
Colin Rowe
TRADITIONS ARE MANIPULATIVE & UTOPIA ALONE CAN’T OFFER A SOLUTION ALONE CONCLUSION: MODERNITY= TRADITION+ UTOPIAN VISION
Collage City and the Reconquest of Time | Interpreted by: Salma El-Seoudi
Salma Seoudi Not common along side walks
UNDERSTANDING ADVANCED THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN | SS2021 | ASSOC. PROF. RUAIRI O’BRIEN | TAs: MSc. MANAR KARAM - BSc. MAHMOUD SAMIR
The author started by mentioning the two attributes used in designning cities. The first, the traditional method. The second, modernity with a utopian vision. The main debate is what is the best to be used and whether or not the utopian vision could stand on it’s own to represent the modern architecture and urban design. There is no absolute right choice, there are a lot of opinions with a defenssive answers that support the movements.
EXPLORING
MICRO MAP Dunkin Donuts marketing strategy
The author in the text was focusing on how people prescriptive the space through senses (seeing, hearing & talking) and stating the importance of each of them and what are the factors that could affect the quality and the experience of a person in the space. The first sense was seeing, the author stated three main aspects that should be considered when designing any space to offer the best quality and experience for the user, the first, the maximum distance allowed in a space. And it was stated that 20-25m is optimum for seeing facial details & 70-100m is the range for designing events. As for Kevin lynch 25m is the optimum distance. The second is the field of vision, were he mentioned the idea of the elevated square for the pedestrians to be able to visually cover the surroundings and the theater were the audience are seated on an elevated levels to be provided with the best experience. last but not least the lighting, and it’s a concern at night were using adequate, well distributed warm light is the best for a public active space at night. The second is hearing, were he started by stating the importance of hearing and being able to communicate with others in public spaces and highlighted the role of traffic in affecting the quality of hearing by mentioning the level of noise that could be bearable and the opportunities that could arouse if there are places traffic free. The third is talking, in this section the author started to mention who are the people that a person could talk to and the kind of conversation that might take place and in the end he stated were could these conversations take place.
SEEING
HEARING
TALKING
Distance
NOISE LEVEL
Talking with who?
Kevin Lynch: 25m is the optimum
It’s hard to make a conversation with a noise level exceeding 60 disables
Accompanies,Acquantances & strangers
20-25 m for facial details 70-100m for events
Field of vision Elevated plat forms in streets
When the dunkin doughnuts ads. start coffee sent is produced
Landscape Some designs motivate people to initiate conversation and other don’t
Adequate, well distributed light Warm light is preferred in public spaces
take the bus The people to work
I can’t hear you..
Light
Light source
SEEING
CONCLUDING
The design of the public spaces is very critical, as it affect the social cohesion in the space and form the everyday experience of the people.
People start to crave drinking coffee
bus arrive to the when they ads. the hanged stop the see
Through the basic understanding of our bodies it was concluded that the human body perceive the space through their senses. This conclusion created a design guide aspects check list that has to be taken into consideration in order to provide the people with an adequate human public space. The author in the text mentioned three senses, seeing, hearing and talking. As an observation these are the senses that affect the interaction with the people and the bonding of the community mainly depends on how these senses will be well used and directed in the site. And using these senses not only affect the social interaction in general, but also affect the person well being and physiological health.
Distance
Light
Field of vision
As a general conclusion, The best way to design a place for people is by knowing the nature of our bodies and how we react to the external environment. People perceive the space through their senses as mentioned in the text, In order to design a space there are some aspects that should be taken in to consideration to provide the users with the best experience. Based on every sense there are aspects that could be translated in to a design elements that could facilitate the process of design and that fit perfectly to suit and fulfill the users needs.
LISTENING Sound of people talking
Level of noise
Traffic free areas Not common along side walks
TALKING
In the end, The importance of the public spaces needs to be highlighted, as it affect the social bonding and the physiological health of the people. And based on the hard experience the world is now facing because of corona the significance of these spaces is highlighted.
Due to the current covid condition that the people during the hard times and in the unfamiliar condition of the social distancing.
Traffic free space the store next Then they find go to there and to the stop
Opportunity to hear the sound of nature and appreciate the little details
In the exploring section, the smelling sense is considered as a marketing tool. They used it and with the help of other physical elements they succeeded in raising the profit of the shop.
Types of people
Interpreted By: Salma El-Seoudi | 40-6707
Social cohesion and physiological health
Text Title| Interpreted by: Student Name
Sound of foot
Jan Gehl From: Life between buildings (1971)
Conversation landscape
Short distance
Elevated eatings in theaters
Seeing, Hearing & Talking
Seeing, Hearing & talking| Interpreted by: Salma El-Seoudi Advanced Theory of Architecture and Urban Design | SS2021
ADVANCED THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN | SS2021 | ASSOC. PROF. RUAIRI O’BRIEN | TAs: MSc. MANAR KARAM - BSc. MAHMOUD SAMIR
ADVANCED THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN | SS2021 | ASSOC. PROF. RUAIRI O’BRIEN | TAs: MSc. MANAR KARAM - BSc. MAHMOUD SAMIR
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO ADVANCED THEORY OF URBAN PLANNING
Khaled Awad UNDERSTANDING
Main Characteristics of Generic City History
Identity
Sociology
No History No layers
Richness Hypothesis can be proven then erased
No Identity Elements Souvenirs
Architecture
Population
Airports
Atrium Complex buildings Post modern style Beautiful
Multiracial
Hyper global and Hyper local Contain population of millions
Urbanism
Geography
Quarters
Free style Roads, Nature, Buildings
Warm weather
Has border like waterfront
Program
Infrastructure
Politics
Offices Hotels Malls
Pedestrian ways respect inhabitants
Resist dictatorial
Roads are only for cars
As a case study describing and applying more the generic city characteristics and feeling, Rem Koolhaas OMA office made a commissioned study in 2008 in Dubai, UAE for the waterfront city. The aim of the city was to generate a critical mass of density and diversity in a city that has seen explosive growth in recent years but little cultivation of the street level urban activity that most metropolises thrive on. The development consist of an artificial island linked to 4 district neighborhoods. The master plan takes an optimistic view of the future of urbanism and exploits two usually opposing elements of 21 century architecture which is generic and iconic. The island divided into 25 traditional blocks that permit a rational, repeatable, exponential urbanism redolent of Manhattan. The waterfront city has an equal distribution of residential and office space stimulates a natural flow of street life night and day along arcades shaded by trees and tall buildings. The highest towers are strategically clustered along the southern edge to provide maximum protection for the island against dessert sun. Also the architecture style of the city is mixed use structure whose inspired by historical examples like the sphere building which was inspired by symbolic form of 18th century architect Etierne-Louis Boullee and the spiral building which was inspired by minaret of 19th century great mosque of Samara in Iraq. To create connection to the mainland, the island is connected to it by 4 bridges located on each side of its square which is fusing with Dubai public monorail system. Trying to match the concept of Rm Koolhaas to nowadays cities, New Alamin city in Alexandria, Egypt was the closest case study describing the generic city that has common features between Dubai water front city and from the main characteristics of generic city which was that both have warm weather in most days of the year, Post modern architecture free style buildings and tall towers located on the edge for sun protection, both located on water front edges and both have no identity
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25Traditional city blocks
El Alamin city in North coast City blocks composition
Warm weather
Inspired by Minaret of19th century great mosque of Samarra in Iraq
The island divided into 25 traditional city blocks Highest towers distribution for better climate
Post modern architecture
CONCLUDING Towers on the edge for better climate
No History
common characteristics Post modern towers
The atrium in Spiraling tower
Inspired by symbolic form of 18th century architect Etienne-Louis Boullee
Models showing the city core
The Highest towers are clustered along southern edge to provide maximum protection against desert sun The 4 bridges connect the island to the mainlands
Waterfront
No identity
In conclusion, the concept of Generic city is a sprawling metropolis of repetitive buildings centered on an airport and is an urban phenomenon that is liberated from the captivity of center, from the straigh-jacket of identity, reflection of present need and present ability and its is city without history. Generic city was a more accurate reflection of contemporary urban reality. What challenging about generic city is the nondescript towers juxtaposed with bold architecture gestures. Moreover the generic city is the critic of the current mode of urbanization and is detailed, crowded, messy, detailed in beauty and all of this is shown clearly in OMA water front city in Dubai and New Alamin city in Alexandria which has the main and common characteristics of the generic city like the tall post modern architectural mixed use towers, the waterfront edge, the warm weather most days in the year and that both has no history base and no identity as the city can be destroyed and rebuild again in no time. The general mode of the generic city is a place of week sensations, far between emotions with the major characteristic of the city is business while the dominant sensation is calm and people are doing there work in a happy comfortable environment. If Rm Koolhaas fails in doing and prove the generic city concept, he will at least raised the questions that most architects would prefer to leave safely unexplored. And if Rem Koolhaas succeed, he could bring us closer to a model of a city that is not only formally complex, but genuinely open to the impure
“The Generic City”and “Whatever Happened to Urbanism?” Rem Koolhaas From: S, M, L, XL (1994)
Interpreted By: Aya Hesham | 40-4999
“Generic City” and “Whatever Happened to Urbanism “| Interpreted by: Aya Hesham Advanced Theory of Architecture and Urban Design | SS2021
“Generic City” and “Whatever Happened to Urbanism “| Interpreted by: Aya Hesham
UNDERSTANDING
Mariam Naamatallah
Before Facades First impressions. First impressions are important to human beings, a natural human behaviour. It is what we see at rst sight, a humanitarian judgement based on appearances. A human’s persona is a building’s facade. The author states that facades are the elements most invested with political and cultural meaning. Even though facades h have not been forgotten by architects, most architects lack the desire to design the complex details demanded by contemporary facades. The author then discusses the evolution of facades throughout the decades. Transitioning from solidiied masses to signiication, rigidity, orderliness, proole, composition to technological approaches such as bigger glass, cu curtain walls, silicone, air conditioning and lastly, curtain walls expire as sustainability starts to take over. The author elaborates the use of Feng Shui of facades as it optimizes the energy ow of a building. Modularity is discussed in the text stating that every house has three parts, the upper part is above the beam, the middle part is above the ground and the lower part is under the steps. The life of the facade brings up the Han golden age. the Egyptian facades would be the main focus point starting this point to the end of the text. The author shows the evolution of facades in the Egyptian culture and how it innuenced architecture all over the world throughout the years.
The mind map consists of the main ideas discussed in the text . “Facadism” is a term used in the book which highlights its importance. It tackles the four different phases of facades. Facades before the “facade”, “facade” facade facades, facades after the “facade” and postscript: facade features. It then compares a few of the differences. Facades using fabric and earth, the modularity, life of the facade and comparisons between western and chinese facades. Then the Egyptian h facades and how it affected other architects around the world.
Hatshepsut Temple
Stuttgart hauptbahnhof
Stuttgart hauptbahnhof
Pyramid of Djoser
Facade Dominated by orderliness, composition, faciality, orientation, proole, embellishment, signiication and rigidity.
Solid masses
After Facades Technological advances: bigger glass, curtain walls, silicone and air conditioning.
Facade Futures Curtain walls threaten to collapse and considering sustainability is more common.
Facade Western vs. Chinese facades
Chinese: circles and squares are the most natural units of geometry, Western: golden ratio-derived rectangle.
Insipred by multiple architecture styles such as the Greek, Roman and Egyptian architecture.
Evolution of Egyptian Facades
Egyptians developed a gallery of forms beginning with the mastaba.
Optimizing building’s energy ow
French Egyptophilia
Europe makes ancient Egypt a pole of attraction in the 18th century.
Body as the front face of the house following certain proportions.
Egyptian Revival
Egyptian architecture is implemented and highlighted in Paris such as Foire du Caire and maison egyptienne.
Fabric
Using elaborate systems to construct the exteriors.
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No required tools for cob building, only hands, earth and water.
Stone Facades of Petra Feng Shui Modularity Life of the Facade
Morning in the Han Palace: ultra reened world expressed via kinetic operable facade.
Super inteligence l Interpreted by: Farah Sherbini
Modernist Egyptian
Hauptbahnhof is innuenced by Hatshepsut Mortuary Temple.
Superintelligence l Interpreted by: Farah Sherbini
Reem Mohammed
The text emphasizes the importance of a certain architectural element which is the facade. The evolution of facades and how it constantly changed to adapt to current eras. The difference between more and less, craft and machine, face and faceless, reeective abso and absorbant and a lot of other comparisons showing how exible facades are, adapting to ongoing cultural changes. It also walked me through how the Egyptian facades evolved and how it inspired a lot of other cultures up until this day. It also discussed Chinese art and facades.
Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Stephan Truby,AMO, Harvard Graduate School of design, Rem Koolhaas, Irma Boom
Elements of Architecture (2014) Interpreted By: Farah Sherbini l 40-0307
Maison Egyptienne
Faire du Caire building
The author in the introduction offers few questions like what is the disadvantage of identity ? What are the advantages of blankness ? And What is we are witnessing a global liberation movement , down with character , what is left after identity is stripped ? The Generic? After that he gave a breif explanation about identity , by which Identity is like mouse trap in which more and more mice have to share the original bait , and which , enclosure inspection , may have been empty for centuries the stronger identity , the more it imprisons , the more it resists expansion , interpretation , renewal , contradiction . After that he started defining the generic cities briefly where The generic city is the city liberated from the captivity of center , from the straight jacket of identity the generic city breaks with this destructive cycle of dependency : it is nothing but a reflection of present needs and present ability. It is the city without history. It is big enough for every body . it is easy. It does not need mantainance . if it gets too small it just expands . if it gets too old it just self destructs and renews. It is equally exciting – or unexciting everywhere. It is superficial- like a Holywood studio lot , it can produce a new identity every Monday morning . Then the author describes the aspects and features of the generic city through which he help you draw a picture of the Generic city The aspects and points he tackel are : 1.General overview : The Generic city is fractal , an endless repetition of the same simple structure module. It is possible to reconstruct it from its smallest entity . The urban plane now only accommodates necessary movements fundamentally of the car , highways are superior version of boulevards and plazas.
2.Statistics : The generic city now also exsists in Asia , Europe , Australia , Africa . another part . Sometimes an old and singular city like Barcelona , by oversimplifying its identity turns Generic. 3.Airport : In terms of iconography/performance , the airport is a concentrate of both the hyper local and the hyper local. The hyper global is the sense you can get goods there that are not available even in the city. Hyper local in the sense you can get things there that you can get nowhere else. Together airports contain populations of millions plus the largest daily workfoce. In the completeness of their facilities they are like quarters of the generic city . 4. Population: The Generic city is seriously multiracial, on average of 8% black , 12% white , 27% Hispanic , 37% Chinese/Asian , 6% Indeterminate , 10% others. Not only multiracial but also multicultural 5.Urbanism: The great originality in the The Generic city is simply to abandon what does not work The best definition of the aesthetic of the Generic city is “free style” . 6.Poltics : The Generic city resist dictatorial 7.Sociology: It Is vey strange that the triumph of the of The Generic city is coincided with the triumph of the sociology Strangely nobody has thought that cumulatively the endless contradictions of these interpretations prove the richness of the Generic city 8.Quarters : Offices are still there even in greater numbers in fact people say that they no longer necessary. In five to ten years everyone will be working from home .But then we will need bigger homes , big enough to use for meetings. Offices will have to be converted to homes. 9.Architecture : There are interesting and boring buildings in the generic city as in all cities. Both trace their ancestry back to Mies van de Rohe
The Generic City| Interpreted by: Mirna Mamdouh
Farah El Sherbini
ADVANCED THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN | SS2021 | ASSOC. PROF. RUAIRI O’BRIEN | TAs: MSc. MANAR KARAM - BSc. MAHMOUD SAMIR
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO ADVANCED THEORY OF URBAN PLANNING
In the time of globalization, expansion of technologies and explosion of information, society takes different shape. People and culture mix and city becomes a universal place. Old cities preserve their history and their mysteries, while the new cities emerges. “As people inhabit anything and they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything, more and more i think that architecture has nothing to do with it and of course thats both liberating and alarming” and this is how Rem Koolhaas described the generic city current mode. The generic city has no identity, no past, no future and without quality. One of the strategy that city uses is to create its own identity to separate from others. Rem Koolhaas formulates different ideas how city could position itself better as generic city. Describing the general mode of the generic city, he despises the identity of the city and believes identity actually choke the city itself to death. He said that identity is like a mousetrap in which more and more mice have to share the original bait. Also the stronger identity, the more it imprisons, the more resist expansion, interpretation, renewal and contradiction. Rem Koolhaas believes that generic city liberated from straight-jacket of identity. Moreover, the airports, is the most important element to understand the contemporary city. The air port is the most singular, characteristic elements of generic city and that airports will replace city in the future. In addition to that, he embraces the fact of bridges over pedestrian networks that generic city has to offer and that streets are only for cars. The general style of the generic city is the free style with no restrictions. Moreover, in architecture of generic city, koolhaas emphasizes on postmodern language, not a historical language. Generic city is flexible, if it gets too small, it just expands and if it gets too old, it just renews. Living in generic city let anyone feels that he is living in Hollywood studio.
Mirna Mamdouh
OMA water front generic city in Dubai Postmodern Architecture style
ADVANCED THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN | SS2021 | ASSOC. PROF. RUAIRI O’BRIEN | TAs: MSc. MANAR KARAM - BSc. MAHMOUD SAMIR
MICRO MAP
EXPLORING
ADVANCED THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN | SS2021 | ASSOC. PROF. RUAIRI O’BRIEN | TAs: MSc. MANAR KARAM - BSc. MAHMOUD SAMIR
ADVANCED THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN | SS2021 | ASSOC. PROF. RUAIRI O’BRIEN | TAs: MSc. MANAR KARAM - BSc. MAHMOUD SAMIR
Aya Hechame UNDERSTANDING
UNDERSTANDING
Yomna El Ezaby
Along the history architectural language defined buildings by elements designs, such as columns, beams, windows and doors adding the liguistic of materiality. Then the idea of media facades occured and vastly spread through different styles. Media facades incorporate those facade arrays which utilize exacting materialization of codes that belong to non architectural types of correspondence, for example, written or pictorial media. Media facades have kept two modes for execution: a linguistic mode, which utilizes the façade to pass on data through verbal language, and a sensational mode, which utilizes the façade to impart through atmosphere and influence. Media facades existed before the technological era we live in nowadays, so they represent the evolution of facades from an age to another. As architecure has always been a medium for other forms of communication to be laid over, seeing the physical registration of linguistic and pictorial signs where non-architectural narratives are collected in a non-architectural codification. Over time from ancient architectural construction to modern architecture, media facades where diffrently encrypted from linguistic and pictorial signs showing a form of art as for example stained glass, by time and evolution media facades now a days it is part of the advertising cooperation, that is being used as a method to create an atmosphere.
Media Facades: from information to atmosphere | Interpreted by: Yomna El-Ezaby
Mai Mahmoud
ACADEMIC
PORTFOLIO
VISUAL DESIGN
INVISIBLE CITIES
INTERPRETATIONS: SHADOW BOX 2ND SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK INS. MOSTAFA YOUSSEF
PORTFOLIO ACADEMIC VISUAL DESIGN
Reem Salah
Arwa Alaa
Kenzy Mohammed
Rana Eslam
Farah - Salma
ACADEMIC
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EECS - ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEMS SOLAR PERFORMANCE - LADYBUG 10TH SEMESTER STUDENTS WORK Dr. Shaimaa El Fayed
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO VISUAL DESIGN
Farah - Salma Farah - Salma
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO VISUAL DESIGN
Farah - Salma Farah - Salma
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO VISUAL DESIGN
Mahmoud - Mohammed - Eslam
ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO VISUAL DESIGN
Habiba - Mario
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// Sharm El Sheikh City Council Project // Dahab Tourist Residence Project // Al Rahman Mosque // Al Dakhla Hospital // Interior Design
Client: the Governorate of South Sinai Designers: Spine Architects - Architeam Interiors Concept: together with the design team, we proposed this concept for the new administrative governmental building (Governor's seat building) to show strength and solidity with emphasis on a gross enrance and open gates to the public. The strength of this design lies in the use of strong geometries, materials and explicit interior design. The design is also environmentally efficient against solar radiation impact. the project is currently under construction.
PORTFOLIO PRACTICAL
Sharm El Sheikh City Council Project
Presenting to General Khaled Fouda; Governor of South Sinai
Sharm El Sheikh City Council Project | Site
Sharm El Sheikh City Council Project | Plans
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Sharm El Sheikh City Council Project | landscape concept | and Central Park Design
Client: Private investors Designers: Spine Architects- Infra group Concept: together with the design team, we proposed a concept of homey residence by the sea in Dahab. the design follow a simplicit vibe with an added touch of color.
Dahab Tourist Residence| Site
PORTFOLIO PRACTICAL
Dahab Tourists Residence
Dahab Tourist Residence| Site
Dahab Tourists Residence | Layout
Horseback Riding Complex, Sharm El Sheikh. A minimalist design of white and gold spriritual composition. Associated with inner court and freestanding minaret.
Al Rahman Mosque | Visualisation
PORTFOLIO PRACTICAL
Al Rahman Mosque
Al Rahman Mosque | Visualisation
Al Rahman Mosque | Plans
A Public Hospital in Al Dakhla Gov. A three floor hospital that includes various medical departments, pharmacies, nurses dorms, clinics, offices and more.
Al Dakhla Hospital | Visualisation
PORTFOLIO PRACTICAL
Al Dakhla Hospital
Al Dakhla Hospital | Plans
Al Dakhla Hospital | Site
The Following Shows a sample of my interior design work for two villas in Madinaty.
DESIGN INTERIOR
PORTFOLIO PRACTICAL
Interior Design
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RESEARCH // Master's field of research: The urban Development of Central Cairo and shaping the Nile waterfront. Objective: Re-integrating the Nilefront with the inner city fabric via a pedestrian friendly - green network. the following shows a glimpse of the study. // Landscaping Egypt From the Aesthetic to the Productive
Landscaping Egypt From the Aesthetic to the Productive. Book Contribution.
Dr Laila El Masry Discussing the book in GUC conference.
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STUDENT WORK - UNDERGRADUATE MY WORK AS AN ARCHITECTURAL STUDENT // New Capital Urban Center // Luxor Green Belt // Migrant City // Berlin Art Museum // Berlin Workshop Building Reuse
Migrant City - Bachelor Project
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO - 2021 - MANAR KARAM
Contact info Building 13 Al Saada Street, 10th district, Zahraa El Maadi, Cairo Cellphone:+201226800847 E-Mail: Manar.aly@guc.edu.eg - Manarkaramm15@gmail.com Manarkaram@hotmail.com