AUC I Creating Lively Communities I Spring '19 - Fall '19 I Al Maza I Technical Report

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LIVELY COMMUNITIES ARCH 468/4532 - ARCH 456/4557 SPRING 2019 - FALL 2019 1


THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE ARCH 468/4532: URBAN DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ARCH 456/4557: ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN/ 6 SPRING 2019 - FALL 2019 © AUC ARCHITECTURE 2020


REPORT PREPARED BY: Dr. Momen El-Husseiny Fatima Abdelaziz

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Special thanks to Dr. Ahmed Sherif, Dr. Basil Kamel, Dr. Ashraf Botros, Dr. Heba Khalil, Mr. Karim Morsy, Ms. Soha Adel and Mr. Mostafa Elwany, Mr. Mohamed El-Nawawy, Mr. Emad El-Nattar, Mr. Mohamed El-Nawawy, and the whole Namaa board. This work wouldn’t have been possible without the dedication and effort of the students from both studios of Urban Design (Spring 2019), and Architectural Design/ 6 (Fall 2019).


CONTENTS

TABLE OF

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MEET THE TEAM

INTRO: DESIGN PROJECT

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NAMAA VISION

MEDIA COVERAGE

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JURY DAY

CERTIFICATES

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ANALYZING LIVELY STREETS

STUDENTS’ WORK PHASE 1: URBAN DESIGN SCHEMATIC PHASE 2: DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

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CONTEXTUAL MODELS

CONCLUSION: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS


TEAM

MEET THE

PHASE 1 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture ARCH 468/4532 - Spring 2019 URBAN INSTRUCTORS Dr Ashraf Botros Dr. Momen El-Husseiny

TAs Mariam Azmy Moshira Ayad Muhammad Emad Nada Gemiei Omar Assem Reem Khalil Salma Osman

PHASE 2 Architecture Design Studio/ 6 ARCH 456/4557 - Fall 2019 DESIGN INSTRUCTORS Dr. Basil Kamel Dr. Heba Essam Dr. Momen El-Husseiny

TAs Eyad Afifi Farida El Seouni Farida Youssef Hady Eissa Mirna Maged Nour Fayad

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INTRO DESIGN PROJECT The project is a 7.5 feddans unique land plot,

a mixed-use development land permit. This

need of luxurious living components within

which lies along Thawrat street, a strategi-

gives a unique opportunity for land develop-

this dense area.

cally important spine that runs all the way

ment and establishing a unique project in an

through Heliopolis, Nasr City, heading to New

area that doesn’t have much competition in

Cairo, Sherouk City and the New Capital City.

this form. Studying the market direction and

The land was originally the house for Olympic

surrounding competition, there is great poten-

group household equipment factory, but long

tial and demand for a luxurious development

time ago the factory stopped operating since

in this original dense area. Studies show that

the area changed into a dense population

there is great demand to luxurious residen-

district. This change has driven the owners to

tial apartments as well as luxury small hotel

demolish the factory in order to make use of

components. The vision for the project is to

this very premium located piece of land. Af-

develop a fully integrated luxurious project

ter demolition, it will now be assigned to be

that stands out in the area and meets a real

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NAMAA VISION NAMAA SPONSORED STUDIO Established in 1998 as a spin-off of Olympic

yond serving the business communities and

Group to operate as their real estate and land

provide high standard residential and com-

bank arm, Namaa is specialized in real estate

mercial properties that introduce new trends

investment and related value-added services.

in service providing to the Egyptian market.

For almost two decades, Namaa has played

Namaa is now merging its subsidiaries under

a pioneering role in Egypt in the corporate

the same brand that provides the various real

real estate industry; developing world-class

estate properties: administrative, residential,

properties of high-quality standards for a

and commercial; ensuring that all the projects

wide range of sectors and providing state-of-

reflect its integrated development perspective

the-art innovative solutions that address the

with the highest standards.

needs of the entire business community. Currently, Namaa has extended its expertise and developed its competencies to expand be7


MEDIA COVERAGE AUC architecture students recently participat-

students and the developer,” explained profes-

For the studio proposals, the urban design

ed in the sponsored studio “Creating Lively

sor El-Husseiny. “The students got to engage

students presented their urban and concept

Communities,” where they presented urban

with the financial and maintenance aspects

designs for an actual site owned by Namaa,

design proposals to a jury for a site owned by

of their projects while successfully convincing

offering an alternative vision and a business

NAMAA Real Estate.

the developer to rethink the floor-area-ratio

model for the site that would connect with the

The studio was part of the course “ARCH

and preliminary high-density program to pro-

city and the community in a socially sustainable

468/4532: Urban Design and Landscape Ar-

vide quality of space with creative ideas for a

and economically balanced system.

chitecture” in the Department of Architecture,

middle-ground. Moreover, the class raised un-

The land they were working with lies along

an initiative that reflects AUC’s efforts to intro-

foreseen dimensions by the developer such as

Thawrat street, a strategically important spine

duce students to real-world situations -- in this

including the Sustainable Development Goals

that runs all the way through Heliopolis and

case by getting professional experience with a

(SDGs) and the necessity of countering seg-

Nasr City heading to New Cairo, Sherouk City

real client. The course instructors were Momen

regation and walling off from the community

and the New Capital City. There is the poten-

El-Husseiny, assistant professor in the Depart-

through integration -- providing a market and

tial for a luxurious property development in

ment of Architecture, and Ashraf Botros.

job opportunities for the adjacent working-class

this area. The students pitched proposals that

“The experience was bilaterally useful for both

families.”

included a fully integrated luxurious project

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First prize presenting their project

mixed-use development of high-end luxury

to encounter a professional realistic experi-

residential service departments as well as a

ence during our undergraduate studies level,�

5-star hotel. The first-place winning team put

said Maram Nazmy, member of the first-prize

forth a design that catered to residents and

team.

created a sense of community, appealing to

WINNING TEAMS

different social classes surrounding the sites. “This experience was a game changer; it was a transition from the conceptual ideas we had to the implementation -- the practical part. We learned how to properly produce urban and conceptual designs for the project as identified by Namaa in its preliminary project program requirements. Being engaged in such a real-life project that has various requirements and restrictions with a real client allowed us

First Prize Team Maram Nazmy - Nada Adawy - Rana Geith - Shehab El-Shazly Second Prize Team Ahmed Selim - Esraa Ashraf - Omnia Abdel-Hay - Salma AlMasry Third Prize Team Nouran Soliman - Salma El-Shafey - Shrouk Mohamed - Zeina Hazim 9


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JURY DAY


TOP ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT): Yara Ibrahim, Nada Gemiei, Reem Khalil, Moshira Ayad, Mariam Azmy, Farah Nour, Ms. Soha Adel, Salma Osman, Mahy Mourad, Mr. Karim Morsey, Mahinour ElMasry, Mr. Emad El-Nattar, Ashraf Botros, Momen El-Husseiny, Omar Assem, Mr. Mohamed El-Nawawy, Nouran Soliman, Muhammad Emad, May ElGhawwas, Salma El Shafey, Zeina Hazim, Omnia AbdelHay, Esraa Ashraf, and Nadine Sherif. BOTTOM ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT): Salaam Hidayatallah, Ahmed Aly, Omar Adel, Marwan El Menshawy, Amgad Alim, Shrouk ElTohfa, Ahmed Moussa, and Salma AlMasry.

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BEAUTY WITHIN THE SUBLIME

A PLACE IN BETWEEN

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DY-NECT

THE GATE

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CERTIFICATES


FIRST PRIZE: HOLISTIC

REFERENCE PLAN

GROUP MEMBERS Maram Nazmy Nada Adawy Rana Geith Shehab El Shazly

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SECOND PRIZE: TRANSCEND

REFERENCE PLAN

GROUP MEMBERS Ahmed Selim Esraa Ashraf Omnia Abdel-Hay Salma Al Masry

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THIRD PRIZE: BEAUTY WITHIN THE SUBLIME

REFERENCE PLAN

GROUP MEMBERS Nouran Soliman Salma El Shafey Shrouk Mohamed Zeina Hazim

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NASR CITY

KORBA

DOWNTOWN CAIRO

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LARGE

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STUDENTS’ WORK PHASE 1: URBAN DESIGN SCHEMATIC Urban Design & Landscape Architecture ARCH 468/4532 - Spring 2019

PHASE 2: DESIGN DEVELOPMENT Architecture Design Studio /6 ARCH 456/4557 - Fall 2019


PHASE 1: URBAN DESIGN SCHEMATIC

BEAUTY WITHIN THE SUBLIME “Beauty within the Sublime” is a proposal that develops two main concepts: 1) The nocturnal city where minds reconstruct the city many times over forging new maps and narratives in response to its restlessness, transformation of night versus day. The built environment is transported at night, which is a loose third place between the natural world and stark configuration of daytime city. 2) The forest: a porous, incomplete spatial confinement with free flowing and organic experience. These two concepts are used to develop the masterplan’s main approach of “SUBLIMITY”. Finally, the sublime in urban design is to experience an awe of something larger than ourselves. We can feel small in comparison to a larger affect of place. But we also recover a sense of self-worth with the realization that our minds are even able to conceive something so large and powerful.

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PHASE 1 Group Members:

PHASE 2 Group Members:

Zeina AbouHashish Shrouk ElTohfa Nuran Suliman Salma ElShafey

Zeina AbouHashish Shrouk ElTohfa Nuran Suliman Tamer ElGabaly May ElGhawas Nour ElMorshedy


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TRANSCEND


PHASE 1: URBAN DESIGN SCHEMATIC

TRANSCEND “To go beyond the range or limits” – As the name implies this project promises a new definition of home, a place that provides its users with a unique experience physically and intellectually. The multilayered spatiality allows integration rather than fragmentation both on horizontal levels across the paths or vertically beyond which there is no definite limit for the innovation and integrity. The idea was to enhance the emergence of sub-communities through open-clusters, while still creating a single unit for an integrated community. The dynamic lines and paths allows for lingering and enjoying space. With its very critical location at the edge of Almaza and the beginning of New Cairo, the “transcend” proposal will take the liveliness of Al Thawra right into the project with interconnected levels of heart, body, and mind. Allowing people to be involved with all their senses by the movement of buildings and paths, a new place is generated where they experience the possibility for dynamic engagement, energetic movement, and a sense of belonging.

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PHASE 1 Group Members:

PHASE 2 Group Members:

Ahmed Selim Esraa Abdelaal Omnia Abdel-Hay Salma Al Masry

Farah Nour Mahinour Mohammad Marwan Hamed Omnia Abdel-Hay Rana Khaled Shahenda El-Eraky Yara Ibrahim Zeina Enab


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SHOTS: LAGOON SPINE

ELEVATED GARDENS

Use of water streams to enhance the cognitive experience, mixed use elements, and the street vendors.

Elevating the gardens to move away from the traffic at the ground level and transfers residents to a more calm and natural atmosphere.

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DY-NECT


PHASE 1: URBAN DESIGN SCHEMATIC

DY-NECT “Dy-nect” creates a city that merges between the sense of place in Korba and today’s compounds. It tries to achieve this challenge through vitality, connectivity and connection between public and private. DY-NECT optimizes visual scenarios by making use of linking and connecting focal points with the existing neighborhood around the site. This “un-gating” approach of exterior-interior kinesthetic relationship led to creating the main experience, which will be within the connections and resulting spaces, which lead to dynamic connections on multiple layers. Creating an underground level to be the connection between public and private. The ground level being the connection at one level through interlocking nodes that unites DY-NECT’s community with the working class outside, called “the Ideal spine”, in reference to the industrual complex on the site before demolishment, in which the neighboring community used to work there before the decision to commercialize the site and turning it into a compound. Henceforth, the proposal aims to redress the relationship between people and the future development by creating spaces of mediation to blur stigmas, mitigate tension and connect communities. Finally, street in the sky acts as a connection and an exclusive experience within itself that relates the two main interactive spaces. 78

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PHASE 2 Group Members:

Amina Ashour Hana ElManadily Nour Eissa Nouran Kotry

Amina Ashour Hana ElManadily Nour Eissa Nouran Kotry Mayar Abdelghany Marwan Menshawy Omar Adel Salma ElShefai


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The plants located on the facades and around the building change in color with the change in seasons. It is an uncontrolled change that gives the users the feeling of dynamism and adaptability. That later will give the users different senses of place and will let the user experience different views. The user won’t get bored of the city because of the changes.

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PROJECT 4

HOLISTIC


PHASE 1: URBAN DESIGN SCHEMATIC

HOLISTIC The HOLISTIC design proposal triggers the heart, mind, and body by creating a comprehensive experience through enacting and complimenting the solid and void of buildings with open spaces. The juxtaposition of voids with its spatial flow generates an opportunity for social interactions, community growth, and enhancing the overall quality of life. In doing so, the project aims to embrace the historical spatial qualities of Egyptian neighborhood Heliopolis surrounding the site thus creating lively nodes to integrate different levels of experience. The HOLISTIC experience was achieved by 1) activating the heart through passionate moments and elevated experiences, 2) engaging the body through healthy environments and active facilities, and 3) triggering the mind through intelligent knowledge and smart design.

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PHASE 1 Group Members: Maram Nazmy Nada Adawy Rana Geith Shehab ElShazly

PHASE 2 Group Members: Anaan Saad Dalia Ammar Nourhan ElSherbiny Omar Jackey Omar ElSisi Shadi Abdallah


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PROJECT 5

A PLACE IN BETWEEN


PHASE 1: URBAN DESIGN SCHEMATIC

A PLACE IN BETWEEN With the constant urbanization and expansion to the outskirts of Cairo, people sought refuge from the noise and chaos of the city to the newly promised sanctuaries of luxury. However, with time, people found the desert cities’ silence as deafening and its isolation as alienating. Rethinking the urban configuration, social stratification, and loss of community, people started to long for vibrance, interconnectivity and liveliness of the city. “A Place in between” is a proposal that uses sound urbanism to create a serene built environment. The proposal develops cognitive tools to generate a soothing environment that breaks into the silence of alienation by offering a place in between the congested bustling city and the fragmented new city. With the site geographically located at the edge of Heliopolis and beginning of New Cairo, a place at the heart of the city is being reclaimed at a pivotal continuum between the edge of an era and beginning of another one. The desire for connection and liveliness offers an unprecedented sound experience that creates a balance. A sanctuary at the heart of life reclaiming our deepest desires of serenity and connectivity. 130

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SNIPPETS OF LIFE Designing a compound to be a connector of diverse user groups in the city through an iconic character that redefines the trajectory of the future without compromising the past. The project poses what does it feel to be living at the edge of the urban sprawl and at the corner of Heliopolis urban life. In such doing, the project tackles this question through capturing the permeability of the city through snippets of spatial qualities. The site acts as a transitional zone from the oldest parts of Cairo to the newest. This shows time to be the dominant factor of growth. The theme of capturing the snippets of life allows a striking yet rhythmic navigation through space. The architectural character is materially developed by providing a provocative metaphorical envelope that is large and segmented, however acts as a shading shelter through mega structure to embrace the community underneath.

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Responds to site: Going hard in the East direction and thus creating an iconic image.

South Elevation

Permeable megaform protects the site and gives the illusion that the design increases in the opposite direction

Building heights increase towards Thawra street for protection from noise and pollution.

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PHASE 1: URBAN DESIGN SCHEMATIC

THE GATE The GATE develops a mixed-use development that uses time as a moderator of space. The intent is to harmonize the dialogue between occupants of time, which will be achieved by creating choreographed experiences that inspire the heart, trigger the mind and activate the body. This will be done through architecture, nature, and the people. Where social interactions, perception, urban recreation, and the sensory experience of city life take place. The corridor from the gate towards the edge illustrates stepping down hierarchy from the dominant to the subdominant. While the edge is a zone of interactivity towards the intersection between Fathy Elkhashlan Street and Hussein Kamel Street.

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THE CORRIDOR FROM THE GATE TOWARDS THE EDGE ILLUSTRATES STEPPING DOWN HIERARCHY FROM THE DOMINANT TO THE SUBDOMINANT , THE MARKET, THE EDGE IS A ZONE OF INTERACTIVITY TOWARDS THE INTERSECTION BETWEENFATHI EL KHASHLA STREET AND HUSSEIN KAMEL STREET

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SKY KORBA COMPOUND


sky korba compund a new life in the skies

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SKY KORBA COMPOUND Offering a new life in the skies for Korba residents as we created an elevated bike track to be enjoyed. The aim for the project is to increase human and social interaction within the community. This will be achieved by creating flying terraces and bridges that create direct connections between the community and their residential blocks. The terraces will circulate throughout the community which will create an interesting user experience through the courtyards and between to each other. Each courtyard will have a distinct activity or function that will serve the community and hopefully overall connect the people together.

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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION Urban Design students, of Spring 2019 participated in Namaa Real Estate’s (NRE) sponsored studio “Creating Lively Communities”. Their proposals for a site owned by NRE were presented to a jury. The studio took part in two courses; ARCH 468/4532: Urban Design and Landscape Architecture and ARCH 456/4557: Architectural Design Studio/ 6. At the end of the semester, representatives of NRE joined the jury, ranked the projects, and chose a winner. This comparative analysis will judge how NRE chose the winning proposal in terms of a set of criteria; land use, figure-ground, porosity, publicness, street and path design, social, economic and environmental factors, as well as the sustainable development goals (SDGs). There were 8 overall groups and proposals, namely, Holistic, Transcend, Beauty within the Sublime, DY-NECT, A Place in Between, Sky Korba, Snippets of Life, and The Gate. The final ranking according to NRE’s judgement was first place for Holistic, second place for Transcend, and third place for Beauty within the Sublime.

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LAND USE ANALYSIS A comparative analysis of land use in the 8 proposals is done first. We analyze the percentages of commercial, residential, recreational, accommodation, etc. Next, they are ranked according to revenue, from high to low.

Key Plans 1.1 Land Use

Table 1.1 Land Use percentages on Ground Floor

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Figure 1.1 Percentages of Functions on Ground Floor Table 1.1 analyzes the land use in terms of functions and revenue, which then illustrates the projects ordered from high to low. Transcend, which ranked second with NRE, has the highest revenue. Meanwhile, Holistic, which was ranked first, actually has the third highest revenue in the studio. Figure 1.1 portrays the percentages of functions (residential, commercial, recreational, etc.). Although the percentages of Transcend’s functions are very similar to that of Holistic’s on the ground floor, their revenue is far greater with around 7 times that of Holistic’s. This is mainly due to the much larger number of units Transcend offers.

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FIGURE-GROUND ANALYSIS Analyzing the projects in terms of figure-ground and floor area ratios (FAR). This helps determine the relationship between open spaces and built structures to examine their densities. Next, we discuss how well the buildings are integrated with the landscape through different hierarchies. Each project tackled this issue uniquely according to their form. We’ll compare the NRE’s winning proposal with the best candidate from this statistical point of analysis.

Key Plans 1.2 Figure-Ground and Greenery Mapping

Table 1.2 Figure-Ground

Table 1.2 analyzed the FAR, building footprints, percentages of greenery, solids and voids of each proposal, which then was translated into a chart as shown in Figure 1.2.

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Figure 1.2. determines the ratio of solids and voids in the layouts. The proposal with the highest percentage of voids is The Gate. In spite of that, they have one of the lowest percentages of green spaces on the ground level. This is due to the group’s focus on accentuating their pathways. They designed an extroverted layout in hopes to promote curiosity and liveliness throughout, which will achieve a higher sense of safety. Meanwhile, Holistic has one of the lowest percentages of voids and greenery on the ground level. Instead, they resorted to spreading their greenery vertically with an urban farming tower to grow their own produce. Greenery and water features on the ground level were used to emphasize the entrances, nodes, and edges of their project. Although Holistic has one of the lowest percentages of voids, they have one of the lowest floor area ratios (FARs), of all the groups, which ultimately makes their project one of the least dense.

Figure 1.2 Figure-Ground Percentages

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POROSITY ANALYSIS Comparing the degrees of porosity and security of each given proposal. Using a set of factors to compare by, such as the numbers of security gates, entrances on ground floor, ramps, and car parking. This will deduce how open and inviting each proposal is to the outside context, while also determining how considerate they are to diverse user groups in terms of ramps and car parking.

Key Plans 1.3 Porosity Mapping

Table 1.3 Porosity

Determining the permeability and porosity of each proposal by the factors mentioned in the above Table 1.3 The table shows that the projects with the lowest number of entrances and the most securitized are Beauty within the Sublime, Sky Korba Compound, and The Gate, while the projects that are the least securitized, with the highest number of security entrances is Holistic. 182


Figure 1.3 deduces that the most porous project is DY-NECT due to its high number of entrances whether security gates or building entrances. This project was intended to create connections from the compound to the outer context. They also have the highest numbers of ramps and parking to keep in consideration the diversity of user groups.

Figure 1.3 Porosity Analysis

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PUBLIC TO PRIVATE ANALYSIS Analyzing the public, semipublic, and private zoning of the proposals in terms of hierarchy. This will eventually determine which projects are more open to the public than the rest. Exploring the porosity through a different scope, by determining which proposals are more of service to the public? We’ll also discuss the integration between public and private zones.

Key Plans 1.4 Public to Private Zoning

Table 1.4 Private to Public

Key Plans 1.4 shows how integrated or segmented the private to public zones are for each project. Table 1.4 represents the zones as percentage. We’ll compare three projects; the most public, the most private, and the winning proposal, in detail.

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Figure 1.4 indicates that the proposal with the highest degree of privacy is Snippets of Life. This project’s private zone covers more than 90% of the layout, leaving the public zones segmented on the periphery of the plot. There is little to no transition from public to private. Meanwhile, Beauty within the Sublime has the highest degree of publicness, with more than half of the layout dedicated to public and semipublic facilities. The private zone is more centrally located with a smooth transition to the public areas at the periphery. This project focused on integrating the different zones through a main and dominant spine. Finally, we’ll discuss the winning project, Holistic. This project locates the semipublic and public zones along the edges, leaving the center dedicated to its residents. Evidently, they were able to achieve a more gradual transition from public to private, in some zones more than others. This project, unlike others, dealt with the curved and dominant corner of the plot with a private building. This reflects their priority of private zones in their layout.

Figure 1.4 Public to Private Percentages in Ground floor

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STREET & PATH ANALYSIS Investigating the street and path widths of each project, which are divided into four hierarchies; car road, main pedestrian spine, secondary, and tertiary paths. Next, discussing the relationship between the street widths and building heights. This will help classify the proposals according to the most comfortable pedestrian paths, while discussing the winning project in detail.

Key Plans 1.5 Street and Path Mapping

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As mentioned above, we’ll be discussing how well incorporated the paths are in each project. By analyzing the street widths in Table 1.5, it projects that five of the eight projects incorporated a car road in their layout. The remaining projects used ramps that lead directly to the underground parking. We then ranked the ratios between building height to street width. The ratios range from 4:1 to 1:1. The project with the highest ratio is Holistic, starting at 4:1. Next in line is Beauty within the Sublime and Sky Korba as the second highest ratio. Lastly, Snippets of Life has the lowest ratio, ending at 1:1. Next, we’ll discuss the main pedestrian paths’ hierarchies. The highest ratio starts at 3:1 with Transcend and The Gate, while ending with Holistic at 1:1. Third, we’ll discuss the ratios of the secondary paths. The highest starts with Holistic at 8:1, while the lowest was A Place in Between at 1:1. Fourth, we’ll study the tertiary paths. Only four groups of the eight incorporated this level of hierarchy into their projects. The highest to lowest ratios start with DY-NECT at 3:1 followed by Holistic, A Place in Between, and finally ends with Snippets of Life at 1:1. Finally, it’s important to note that the winning proposal, Holistic, was one of two projects which incorporated all the previously mentioned street and path hierarchies in its proposal. After extracting from the table, we deduced that most of the ratios between building height to street width range from 3:1 to 1:1 in the eight proposals. Holistic’s proposal have two very high ratios at 4:1 for car roads an 8:1 for secondary pedestrian paths.

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SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS Examining the social, economic, and environmental spaces on each project’s ground, typical, and roof plans. Assuming that all the social spaces are considered to be recreational or opportunities for interaction. The economic revenue would be ongoing profit generating functions, and finally the environmental spaces would include shading structures, landscape, and contextual designs. We’ll then discuss the best projects in terms of these three points while discussing NRE’s winning project as well.

Key Plans 1.6 Mapping the Social, Economic & Environmental Spaces

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Table 1.6 displays the project with the highest percentage of social space, Sky Korba Compound. The form was designed to enclose the outdoor social spaces and activities with an inward-looking design strategy. The outdoor social spaces are designed along the linear axis of the site to achieve maximum opportunities for interaction. The project with the highest percentage of economic revenue is DY-NECT. This project’s main goal was to create connections between the inner community of the compound with its outer context. They achieved this by diversifying their economic revenues such as retail shops, clinics, hotel, and spa, etc. which all open to the public. Figure 1.6 reveals the projects with the highest percentages of environmental spaces, which are Beauty within the Sublime and The Gate. Firstly, Beauty within the Sublime was designed with shifted masses on multiple levels to create a self-shaded form. They also incorporated large open spaces with a high percentage of greenery to absorb heat and minimize heat transfer. Finally, they designed a large mesh structure to shade most of the outdoor spaces. Secondly, The Gate was one of the few projects that utilized their roofs with green roofs and softscape in order to absorb heat and minimize heat transfer to the buildings. Lastly, by analyzing Holistic’s spaces, we determined that the social spaces are mainly located along the axial spine of the project creating spaces to mingle and interact with one another. The economic revenue is portrayed through their shops, urban farms, restaurants, and hotel. The environmental spaces are shown mainly through the water fountains which are used to humidify air and regulate temperatures, while the softscape is used to absorb excess heat. Holistic is one of the least projects to incorporate these factors in its design.

Figure 1.6 Percentages of Spaces

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS The Sustainable Development Goals are defined by the United Nations as “A blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. The 17 Goals are all interconnected, and in order to leave no one behind.” The groups were required to analyze and apply SDGs in their projects. The below table shows the SDGs that each group tried to tackle. We’ll be discussing which projects applied and achieved them best.

Table 1.7 SDGs

Table 1.7 illustrates that Holistic targeted a set of SDGs that will be elaborated below. 3. Good Health & Wellbeing by promoting walkability and enhancing the quality of pathways and outdoor spaces. 10. Reducing Inequalities by creating more age friendly outdoor activities such as pet friendly parks. 12. Responsible Consumption and Production through the use of hydroponic systems and urban farming. 195


Transcend’s main idea was creating a main spine along the plot. They tried to tackle multiple SDGs in different ways. 3. Good Health and Wellbeing by creating spaces for physical activity, which will encourage people to get involved. Also creating elevated gardens to act as a catalyst for users to engage in environmental activities. 4. Quality Education through youth development workshops. 6. Clean Water and Sanitation by using drainage systems and tanks to treat grey water used in the lagoon. 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth by incorporating kiosks and startups along the project’s spine and bridges. 11.Sustainable Cities and Communities incorporating a dominant lagoon along the spine to be used as an element that purifies the surrounding air to provide good standards for decent human living. Beauty within the Sublime focused mainly on three particular aspects of the SDGs, which we’ll discuss below. 3. Good Health and Wellbeing through the use of greenery, creating spaces for meditation, and using eco-friendly construction materials. 7. Affordable and Clean Energy by incorporating solar panels in their design. creating job opportunities and economic growth through the hotel, and usage of solar panels as affordable and clean energy. 13. Climate Change through a self-shaded form and including lots of greenery for shading and minimizing heat transfer. DY-NECT’s main approach was to connect the inner community with the outer public sphere of its context. This was shown through multiple points mentioned below. 5. Gender Equality by creating more female friendly social activities within the market spaces. 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth through including many job opportunities within the site for locals such as retail shops, clinics, hotel, etc. 10. Reducing Inequalities by making a public spine from one side of the plot to the other, which would invite locals from the surrounding communities and connect them with the inner one. This ultimately justifies their concepts of co-working and co-living. Snippets of Life tackles the SDGs mainly through the two points mentioned below. 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth for outsiders to engage with the community and make a living. 12. Responsible Consumption and Production through their usage of urban farming towers. The Gate focused mainly on the eighth point as mentioned below. 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth was achieved by creating job opportunities for locals through their spine of markets and commercial shops, which creates a main axis that leads to the hotel. They targeted both, the community and its surrounding context.

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URBAN DESIGN PERSPECTIVE Table 1.8 ranks the eight proposals in terms of the previously mentioned criteria. We created a weight factor for each criterion to deduced a final score for each project in terms of the urban design perspective. This weight was distributed based on the importance of each topic thus, giving the highest weight to the Figure-Ground analysis and the Social, Economic, and Environmental factors. Giving slightly lower weight to the street and path analysis, porosity, and revenue.

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REAL ESTATE DECISION ANALYSIS Table 1.9 represents the top three winning teams selected by NRE. It illustrates their rankings under each set of the preselected criteria used in this report. This table highlights the importance of revenue, floor area ratios, publicness, and street hierarchies in NRE’s selection. It’s clear that they mainly prioritized the revenue. They selected the three projects with the highest revenues, as the top three winning proposals. Whereas, the percentages of voids, porosity, privacy, and environmental factors weren’t as much of importance.

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CONCLUSION Evidently, NRE didn’t make their final decision according to a single criterion. Based on our findings, the decision was made on multiple aspects as was previously mentioned in the comparative analysis. After analyzing the SDGs, we were able to recognize a pattern within the goal selection of the winning proposals. What they had in common was their focus on enhancing the health and wellbeing of their users through outdoor spaces and activities. In Table 1.8, we discussed the projects’ rankings for each criterion in the urban design perspective. It was deduced that Beauty within the Sublime has a higher score than Holistic, making Holistic the second highest score along with Snippets of Life. This portrays that Real Estate views don’t align with the urban design perspective. To sum up, the best compromise alternative was selected based on NRE’s weight of each criteria. This can be seen in Table 1.9, NRE gives the heaviest weight to the proposals which offer the highest revenue. This report analyzes a focused set of criteria. However, there may be other factors and criteria NRE used in their decision making.

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