URBAN DESIGN & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE NAZLET EL SEMMAN
ARCH 468/4532 STUDENTS’ WORK FALL 2018
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE ARCH 468/4532: URBAN DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FALL 2018 © AUC ARCHITECTURE 2020
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MEET THE TEAM
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TEAM Urban Instructor Dr. Momen El-Husseiny Dr. Sami S. Shaker
TAs Amr AboTawila Mayyadah Hameed Moshira Ayad Mostafa El-Baroody Nada Gemiei Nour Hussein Reem Khalil
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The Giza Plateau is a world heritage site facing urban encroachment of different patterns demarcating a paradoxical state that is very distinctive of the 21st century. The Giza Plateau embodies a vivid history of power and monumentality since Ancient Egypt. It is the house of the three grand pyramids and the Sphinx together with many more archeological sites and key landmarks; small pyramids, Solar Boat Exhibition and the Grand Egyptian Museum –to be opened soon displaying one of the biggest statues of Ancient Egypt, Ramses-II, in an indoor air-conditioned hall. From an urban perspective, the plateau is a complex platform of timeless architecture that
is topographically raised above its surrounding making it visually distinct as well as geographically unique. Until now, it remains as a desert setting preserving its microclimate establishing itself as an exception that further distinguishes it within the immediate context. With such rich history and massive scale, a contradicting array of urbanization is staged on its edge. Across the historic plateau with its desert-like environment, lies a vibrant informality, Nazlet El-Samman that is quickly encroaching over the heritage site symbolizing the urban condition of the 20th and 21st century city with the urban poor surviving within a struggling city facing economic depression and social fragmentation. On the other hand an exclusive golf course sets itself
right within the perimeter of this urban contradiction and spatial inequality. Outside the Pyramids plateau, the two urban forms represent two isolated archipelagos of lives within metropolitan Cairo. However here, their close proximity with history makes the case even uncanny. Their presence close to the epicenter of world civilization marks the urban agony and alienation of our today’s contemporary city. Where exclusivity dominates in other situations inside confined gated communities, and ordinary patterns of everyday urbanism are confined in enclosed informal settlements, here they come in close contact with a potential for negotiation and mediation.
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Visual Spine Connectivity
SPINE JOURNEY Visual Spine SPINE JOURNEY JOURNEY SPINE Visual Spine Connectivity
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Telescopic Gateway Mansoreya Old Families House Connectivity Telescopic Gateway Mansoreya Entrance Gateway Mansoreya Central Entrance Bazars Entrance Bazars Stables/ Central Spine Central Bazars Stables/ End of Spine Spine Stables/ Spine End of Spine End of Spine Domed Domed Transition Domed Source:Urban Spine Analyisi,Klopt Transition Pathway Markets Transition Source:Urban Spine Analyisi,Klopt Pathway Source:Urban Spine Analyisi,Klopt Markets Pathway Markets Aisha Asfour DESIGNING LIVELY STREET Aisha Fahmy Asfour DESIGNING LIVELY STREET Amina Aisha Asfour DESIGNING LIVELY STREET Heritage, People and Urbanism – Amina Fahmy DoniaFahmy Doaia Amina Heritage, People and and Urbanism Urbanism Donia Doaia People Urban Encroachment & Uneven ––Development Mariam Amro Heritage, Donia Doaia Urban Encroachment Encroachment & & Uneven Uneven Development Development Mariam Amro Urban Mariam Amro
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USER ARS GROUPS AND ACTIVITIES The User groups vary from the residents of the site, the old families, vistors, and the tourists
CONCEPT CONCEPT CONCEPT
The spine division and scale was based on respecting the exiting fabric and human scale. was divided in central The spine division and scale wasItbased on respecting the exiting fabric and human scale. It was divided infeatures, central nodes/Saquares acted as landscape, waterin exiting fabric andthat human scale. It was divided central nodes/Saquares thatthat acted as to landscape, wateractivities features,such stepped plazas, etc leads the sideways nodes/Saquares that acted as landscape, water features, stepped plazas, etc that leads to the sideways activities such as the bazars and stepped plazas, etcshops that leads to the sideways activities such as the bazars and shops Entrance as the bazars and shops Node Entrance NodeOld Families Entrance Node Old Families Houses Families Houses SPINE JOURNEY Old Visual Houses Spine Telescopic
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