SALLY CHARBEL ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN PORTFOLIO
SALLY CHARBEL A highly-talented and dynamic recent graduate with a BSc degree in Architecture and Urban Design from the German University in Cairo. Excellent in designing projects that range from Urban planning to detailed public and private buildings. Proficient in the use of graphics and presentation techniques to deliver design ideas across. Engaged with and experienced in the delicate relationship between New and Old, particularly designing in historic and environmentally sensitive contexts. Birthdate Address Nationality E-mail German Number Egyptian Number
23/04/1995 191 Banafseg 9, fifth settlement, Cairo, Egyptian sallycharbel1@gmail.com 491775948963 01009175527
EDUCATION 2013-2018
German University in Cairo Architecture and Urban design bachelor program
Summer semester 2017
Universitaet Stuttgart (DE)
2009-2013
New Ramses College
Bachelor Thesis IGCSE
1999-2009
New Ramses College Egyptian National system
LANGUAGES English Arabic German
TECHNICAL AutoCad SketchUp Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Revit Rhino
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Summer 2016
Archigroup, Cairo (Egy) Intern
Spring semester 2016
Junior Teacher Assistant in “Introduction to Architectural Design” course German University in Cairo (Egy)
2016 - 2018
Architecture Association club German University in Cairo (Egy)
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Vision furniture, Cairo (Egy) Prepared conceptual drawings and AutoCad drawings
Summer 2011 - Summer 2018
Wadi Sports Camp, Cairo (Egy) In charge of a team of 12 girls for 10 days. Served as part of a team of 50 people
CONTENT | Selected Works
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AU REVOIR TRISTESSE | Bachelor thesis | Stuttgart
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VILLAGE DWELL | Reside Competition | Mumbai
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SALVAGE THE VALLEYS | Design Studio VI
04. MULTI SCALE INTERVENTIONS | Design Studio VI 05.
WAIT, | Choreography of Space | Visual Design Class
01. Au Revoir Tristesse Stuttgart, Germany
Stephen Areal is an industral area on the neckar river in stuttgart. It is located exactly 5 minutes away from the Mercedes Benz museum in Bad Canstatt, however this neighborhood is quieter than the area surrounding the museum. The project is divided on two scales, the urban scale’s challenge was to transform this industrial area into a mixed use patch while also integrating it with the rest of the neighborhood. It was also encouraged to keep this block as a self sustaining block. On the northern side of the patch is the neckar river and in the southern part, the kurpark. The Architectural scale however, is an experimental concept of a mixed use building. All the enclosed spaces are private but every other space in the building is a communal space.
The Master plan
Bank Bar Mini Market Pharmacy
Bakery
First office floor shown in detail
First residential floor shown in detail
02. Village Dwell Mumbai, India
Worli Koliwada. A fishing village on the bay of Mumbai fighting its way out of the “slum” category. Its inhabitans earn a living through fishing and through renting a floor of their house to visitors. They’re connected with strong bonds that form their economic and social structure. The competition challenge was how to maintain their village life while enhancing it and at the mean time, attract tourists to come stay at this beautiful peninsula over looking the Arabian sea. “There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.” Jane Jacobs
The levee berm wall
03. Salvage the valleys Marsa Matrouh, Egypt
Marsa Matrouh is a coastal city in Egypt with some of the most beautiful beaches in the country. However, 200km before Matrouh lies Marina, a city that is infested with real estate investments that ruin its beaches but, that does not hinder upper class Egyptians from overcrowding the city every summer since the beginning of the 20th century. Which takes the light from beautiful Matrouh. In this project I am aiming to shed the light on Matrouh by focusing on one of its important aspects; the valleys. The intervention is made on 3 phases that will be discussed further. To enhance the transportation within Matrouh by revitalising its old train stations and to add a 1 or a 5 day hiking program throughout one of the valleys to experiment. This would expectantly integrate it in the cycle of a visiting tourist and if successful, will be implemented in the rest of valleys.
Agiba beach is one of the most famous beaches in Matrouh. Hence, I will experiment in the valley which starts from Agiba in order to attract the most visitors. Phase 1: Rehabilitate the existing train stations. To ease the transportation to and from the valleys, the red dots are the abandoned stations that will be enhanced and the green one is till being used.
Water activities Bus Station Eco-lodge Horses & Camels
Farming
Craft learning
Restaurant Hiking Checkpoint Rest
Market Grazing
Star Gazing
Mini Market Safari End Eco-lodge
Phase 2: Introduce the program. As previously mentioned, the program could be either held on 5 days with sleeping in the quarries and visiting other areas in Matrouh or a 1 day trip that hikes through the whole 8km trail. A shuttle bus will be introduced from down town to the newly formed bus stop in order to help tourists reach the beginning valley and the train stop to take them back to downtown at the end of the trip.
Phase 3: Build the quarries. The quarries are each 20m2 rooms carved inside a hill, including a bathroom, a bed and a small terrace. Each group of quarries form an eco lodge that is composed of 10 units on different levels for more privacy. Each lodge gas its common kitchenette and lounge. All of which are eco-friendly.
The quarries are equipped with cisterns that collect rain water and with the energy from the solar panels, the water is pumped through the pipes. The cisterns are usually used in areas that have medium rain and minimum facilities.
-Number of 1 day tourists in summer 300/day/valley 300/90 days/20 wadis: 540,000 -Number of 5 day tourists in summer: 120/week/valley 150/12 weeks/20 wadis: 40,000
Water activities
Bus Station
Safari Stop
Your Journey starts here! Enjoy the water and then on to the rest of the ride.
Are You here to chill or to hike? If this question upsets you, take the
You’re now in for an adventure! Take the buggy and let’s go meet the bedouins.
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Hiking
Rest
This is just a meeting point to make sure you’re still here.
Take a break.
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Sleeping Quar-
Camel and Horseback
Restaurant
We’ll get to that later, It’s where you’ll have a good
Choose a camel or a horse and let’s discover the desert.
Get a taste of the delicious bedouin food!
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Crafts center
Farming
Star Gazing
Want to learn a new craft? There’s no better than a bedouin lady to teach you how to make a woolen scarf, a beautiful carpet or anything
Now let’s meet the bedouin men, plant some olives and harvest
Look at the stars!
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Grazing
Mini market
Campfire
Feed the sheep, milk the cows, you’re the shepherd for today.
Walking on? Pack some snacks! Going home? Get your water
Now that the day is coming to an end, let’s get warm and roast some marshmallows.
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Train station
Now that this trip has come to an end, let me explain to you what we are doing. We are encouraging eco-tourism and this is implemented while maintaining the authenticity and rawness of the place by working with natural resources; solar energy, cisterns for collecting rain water and composite toilets
If you’re here for a 1 day trip, We bid you farewell. If you’re spending the week, now let’s go to sleep or visit the city.
We hope you enjoy your stay, find it calming and reconnect with nature
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04. Multi Scale interventions Cairo, Egypt
Dahab is a primitive island located in the middle of the Nile river in Egypt. Hence, it is only accessible through water. Its estimated inhabitants are around 20,000 people. The island was known for its farming and grazing until the early 2000s where the sweeping effects of urbanization were inevitable. People started building on their farm lands until they have currently reached 40% built area of the total land area. Moreover, in 2008, the ring road, a bridge crossing over the island, was built and avertising agencies took this to their advantage and started buying lands for unreasonably low prices to put up billboards on both sides of the bridge. In this project my aim is to acknowledge the simplicity and tranquility of this place, to improve the living quality and to portrait the island’s identity in a manner that visitors can relate to.
First, I analyzed the surrounding of the island to know how visitors would be able to reach it. Marked on the map are the ferry stops in the island and the ones opposite to them on the other side. There is no accessibility through land.
Dahab island in context
The transportation network in the island
Important sites on the island
After analysing the island, visiting it many times and talking to the inhabitants, I concluded that the transportation network does not facilitate easy movement. The locals move around the island in bikes or tuktuks and the roads are not suitable. I then decided to refurbish some of the roads and add some new one forming a loop around the island as the main transportation route. On each of the important sites, an urban pocket is introduced for rest or for bike parking.
The furnibike is inspired by studio BOW-WOW. The idea behind it is that the bike can be used for several different functions because of a simple system within it that allows it to be folded in any direction. The wharf on the island already uses wood and steel for the boats so the bikes will be constructed in the wharf as well.
A spiral connection between the bridge and the island is constructed using the already existing billboard structure, with cubicles hung on all sides for the bike storage or for rest.
05. Wait, Cairo, Egypt
for a day to end, a change to happen, a storm to settle or a love to arrive.. We live in metropolises with a tremendously fast pace yet, we wait and we wait and we wait. That waiting has become part of our daily routine and, it is of tremendous irony that our brief and momentary existence is muddled with waiting. For a time that we no longer have to wait. This phenomena intrigued me so, in a series of postcard pictures, I started documenting situations that represent our wait. By objects rather than by people. Objects that are on hold until it’s their time to be used or until they’re moved, and my beloved Cairo was home for that.
THANK YOU.