URBAN DESIGN & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE NEW CAIRO
ARCH 468/4532 STUDENTS’ WORK SPRING 2020
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE ARCH 468/4532: URBAN DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SPRING 2020 © AUC ARCHITECTURE 2020
CONTENTS
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MEET THE TEAM
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INTRO
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STUDENTS’ WORK PHASE 1: RESEARCH PHASE 2: MASTERPLAN
MEET THE
TEAM Urban Instructor Dr. Momen El-Husseiny
TAs Doha Ibrahim Fatima Abdelaziz Sara Seyam Shaza Ali Tamer Kamel Yasmine Sabek
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The theme of this studio is to map and unpack the paradoxes of the Egyptian neoliberal city going beyond the binary dispositions of private/public spaces. Moving beyond the canonical epistemologies of gated communities framework developed in the geographies of the global north, we come to realize the production of public markets inside privatized gated communities in the case of Cairo, the development of public open-for-all mosques inside compounds, public church, strip-mall as a buffer edge instead of the concrete fence, and temporalities of access to gated communities creating a circumstantial dynamic formation of grey spaces, challenging the cookie-cutter theory of neoliberal city as we know it.
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Two tasks were required from the students towards that end of re-imagining and stitching the neoliberal city of New Cairo developed at the eastern desert edge of metropolitan Cairo. Step 1 was designated to mapping and analyzing the spaces of anomalies and disjunctions that fall at the intersection of the epistemologies of public and private spaces. Secondly, step II, was about configuring how to generate a masterplan from these micro-spaces of interaction to stitch and amend the dysfunctional macro-scale of the masterplan. In this case, the urban design exercise becomes a methodology of action against the conventional birds-eye view of the Masterplan (with a capital ‘M’) to become a human-centered masterplan.
The objective is to deconstruct neoliberal New Cairo by stitching the fences, gated enclaves, and security archipelagos through optimizing the already-existing effects of these ruptures shaking the dialectical utopianism already in place.
the existing dysfunctional masterplan in an attempt to develop a more networked infrastructure and connected built environment.
The urban design studio is a research-driven design inquiry. Every group is composed of 5-6 students where they conduct ethnographic fieldwork of three contested spaces of public/private tackling the question of segregation. They then develop a thesis statement and a design methodology of action to enhance those spaces. Afterward, they work individually on a blow-up action area to retrofit it. Then they synthesize their action areas into a collective vision for stitching and amending
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WORK
STUDENTS’
PHASE 1: RESEARCH PHASE 2: MASTERPLAN
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GROUP 1 Nada El Gabalawy Hagar El Kady Noha Khalil Nouran Shaheen 10
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ANALYSIS
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PET OWNER
SHOP OWNER
CHILDREN
YOUNG ADULTS
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URBAN FARMING AND AQUAPONICS
FARMING MARKETS AND VENDING AREA
DIY SKILL SHARE WORKSHOPS
PEDESTRIAN EXHIBITION
CYCLE 1
CYCLE 2
CYCLE 3
CYCLE 4
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MENDING THE CRACKS
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GROUP 2 Habiba Moemen Nour Chalabi Reem Usama Ragaa Younes Mayar Omar Andrew Rafik 44
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ANALYSIS
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HISTORICAL TIMELINE OF NEW CAIRO
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EXPANSION OF NEW CAIRO
LAND USE
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SEVEN STARS ANALYSIS
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MICRO ANALYSIS: FLUID SPACES
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AL REHAB ANALYSIS
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MICRO ANALYSIS
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MICRO ANALYSIS: FLUID SPACES
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CFC ANALYSIS
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USER GROUPS
SPACE PROGRAM
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
SHOTS
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TARGET USERS
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PLAN
SECTION
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DESIGN PROCESS
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ZONE 1
ZONE 2
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ZONE 3
ZONE 4
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HOW CAN URBAN ACUPUNCTURE MAKE A RESILIENT CITY?
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GROUP 3 Meiram Hussein Malak AbdelNaby Rama Khalid Daniella Tinawi Laila Kouta
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HISTORY OF NEW CAIRO
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POTENTIAL HEARTS IN NEW CAIRO
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MACRO ANALYSIS
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SWOT ANALYSIS
SOLUTIONS
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PROPOSED DAILY PROGRAM
ZONING
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SWOT ANALYSIS
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PUBLIC LIBRARY
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MASTER PLAN ANALYSIS
SECTION A-A
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A VIBRANT PAVILION LYING WITHIN A PARK
GROUP 3 This urban intervemtion tackles the idea of curating the in between spaces of residential buildings by creating an open space like park that has a main node being a vibrant pavilion which hosts different types of activities. The co-existing relationship between the natural and the artificial acts as a magnet and regenerates the space - bringing the community together.
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THE CONNECTING SQUARE
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Land Use
Master Plan
Zoning
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BLOW-UP PLAN
SHOTS
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THE POINT OF DIVERGENCE
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MACRO ANALYSIS
MASTER PLAN
SECTION A-A
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MACRO ANALYSIS
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MASTER PLAN
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THE GREEN MOSAICS
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GROUP 4 Farida Amr Gihan Amin Taghrid Saleh Nada El Gamal Farida Saraya Merna Azeir
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HISTORY OF NEW CAIRO
URBAN GROWTH
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NEW CAIRO ANALYSIS GREEN MOSAICS
LAND USE
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AL REHAB ANALYSIS
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CFC ANALYSIS LAND USE
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SOLID AND VOID
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WATERWAY ANALYSIS
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PLANTATION
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BANAFSEG ANALYSIS SOLID AND VOID
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STREET NETWORK
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GREENERY
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PROBLEM STATEMENT
PROPOSED SOLUTIONS
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ACTION AREAS
APPROACH
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ANALYSIS
USER ACTIVITY
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SOLUTIONS
PLANTATION USED
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ELBANAFSEG PARK AND ALLEYWAY
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ANALYSIS
USER GROUPS
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GARDEN- STREET - HOUSE
MARKET - STREET - HOUSE
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PARK AND ALLEYWAY
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ALLEYWAY DESIGN
MASTER PLAN
ELEVATION
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PARK DESIGN
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WATERWAY INTERVENTION AIM CREATING A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE COMMERCIAL AREA AND BANAFSEG. TO DILUTE THE EDGES, EHNANCE WALKABILITY, AND PRESERVE LOCAL PLANTATIONS.
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ANALYSIS
USER & BEHAVIOR
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ZONING
BRIDGE FLOOR PLAN
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MARKET LEVEL PLAN
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CONTAINER GARDENS ANALYSIS
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EXPANDING SPONTANEITY
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GROUP 5 Abdelrahman Ahmed Rowan Ashraf Mariam Morsy Nada Yaccob Lina Khomais 140
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CAIRO FESTIVAL CITY
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MARKETS OF EXCHANGE
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USERS
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QAHWETNA
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USER PROFILE & ACTIVITIES
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“Connectivity on a local scale across the whole city is very much interrupted by the main arterial roads that divide the city into isolated lands and makes it even more dangerous to commute.� Metigating the stratification of New Cairo by amalgamating the streets and service cores together 159
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THE REAL VS. THE HYPERREAL
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GROUP 6 Ashrakat Nadim Ghada Magdi Lara Shaheen Miriam Nader Yasmin El Soueni Zeina Riad 174
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ANALYSIS
FACTORS TO MAKE NEW CAIRO A REAL CITY
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GENERAL INFO
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1. SAFETY
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2. ACCESSIBILITY
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3. INCLUSIVITY
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4. AUTHENTICITY
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5. ADAPTABILITY
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6. SUSTAINABILITY
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SWOT FAMILY PARK
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SWOT CAIRO FESTIVAL CITY
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SWOT AL REHAB
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SHATTERED NETWORK
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GROUP 7 Salma Ghanim Dinah Harvey Aseel El Ashry Kareem Kabil Mireille Reyad Alejandra Guzman 206
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