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TEAM: Tania Moshirian / Yishiqin Li / Gregory Barrett
The site encompasses an informal area, the zone
of Geziret, located alongside the nile within the
governate of Giza. As such, the spatial configura-
tion of the urban fabric raises numerous questions
when considering urban heat islands, with the re-
sults generated allowing for interesting, and often
unexpected, avenues of exploration.
When compared to the heat aspects of a nearby
formal area, it was the urban concentration of
Geziret which proved most worth a designed inter-
vention.
The cultural landscape of the Ashwa’eyat is a mul-
tifaceted, ever changing mix of tradition and ne-
cessity. The street, the family relationships which
inform the built shape of the residences and the
unplanned activities which occur all lend them-
selves to exploration, with urban resilience as the
end goal.
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site location
With friendly support ofGerman Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ)
Participatory Development Programme in Urban Areas (PDP), Cairo, Egypt
Institute for European Urban Studies (IfEU),
Faculty of Architecture & Urbanism, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Team of Bauhaus Summer School
Create opportunity to facilitate partial shift towards
skilled labour, especially within youth demographic
Facilitate youth programme expansion
Perpetuate cultural, water based traditions
Perpetuate safe, sustainable, and resilient building
techniques throughout the informal area
Cultural Landscapes and Urban Resilience
ThE PLUg In AshWA’EyAT
LEARnIng FROM gEZIRET
Teachers TeamDipl.-Ing. (FH) Philippe Schmidt M.Sc.
Eng. Mohammed Abdel Aziz M.Sc.
Dr. Conrad Philipp
Dr. Hassan ElMouelhi
Assoc. Prof. Li Qing
Arch. Ilya Belenya
Built Objectives
sPATIAL COnDITIOns
Cultural Objectives
Develop a safe and sanitary environment where people in the informal and formal settlements can benefit from. Workshops will be implemented to inform and assist the public on various issues in the area targeting health and youth programs. Guidelines will have to be put in place so when the Ashwa’eyats expand to
the site, the infrastructure and steps to follow will already be in place to create a safer environment.
COnCEPT / InTERVEnTIOn
Allow for expansion of informal area in more resil-
ient manner
Use border condition to further connections with
wider city
Negotiate connection with highway and establish-
ments in surrounding formal and informal areas.
spatial Objectives
Bauhaus Summer School 17.-28. August 2015, Institute for European Urban Studies
site
Highway
Nile
Red Areas: Prepared Foundations
Under Road Infrastructure East West Axis
reduces Heat Canyon
Initial Temporaray Work-shop buildings
Initial beginnings of Infor-mal Settlement
ITemporary Structures withdraw as Informal Area Grows
Green Areas Flourish as Informal Area Reaches Peak
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Preparing the Territory
Learn + Build
Settlement Expansion
Establishing an Urban Fabric
INFORM
BUILD
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Green roofs provide shade and remove heat from the air through evapotranspiration, reduc-ing temperatures of the roof surface and the surrounding air” (EPA, 2015). The implantation of green roofs will cool the area, improve the air quality, and reduce energy use. However, homeowners are constantly expanding the layout of their homes: These will be adaptive allowing for homeowners to build and expand their without causing any building issues.
The main focus of the infrastructure provided both to the plug in ashwa’eyats, and to the general public is the provision of fresh water. Linked to the ancient custom of Sabeen, the public inter-face of the infrastructure at the human scale is both flowing water for drinking and evaporating stations for street cooling, also humidifying the air. Here the cultural tradition of water sharing is taken to the very heart of design, both being present in the plug in ashwayet as a key system, allowing for both grey water and black water system recovery also, truly embracing the notion of purification (wudu). As pictured, a digester system exists to harness the potential of waste, whilst also providing urban green infrastructure which also assists in cooling.
The removable and affordable products such as PV (photo-voltaic) and solar thermal are crucial, generating 72 watts an hour of availa-ble energy with six hours of sunlight.The basic system can be incrementally upgraded over time to incorporate larger appliances; chareac-terised by low costLow cost and low-main-tenance. With the changing environment, PV solar is an option that can be easily removed and placed on the next level of the home.
Implementing a construction material that helps reduce heat is crucial.Softwood chips and wood processing waste are the basic raw materials for the production of the building ma-terial wood-concrete: if painted or pigmented white, a high albedo effect is created. The creation of these structures using this newly introduced area will help be a phenomenon of a new building technique. Ultimately, the end product should not only be cost- effective but also be the best material to negate heat.
There is an extreme lack of youth services and programs to educate the upcoming genera-tions and help express themselves in Cairo, Egypt. Participatory Needs Assessment in Informal Areas (PNA, 2015) by the Centre of Development Services describes the need for youth centres in the area of Giziret. The imple-mentation of an interactive street art will help young people express themselves in a safe environment. Shaded structures, water, and mist spray allow cooling.
Develop design framework for future possible
building on site
Ensure proliferation of design guidelines (also
through youth programme on site).
Create physical infrastructure foundations to sup-
port future informal construction
thermal analysis
thermal condition spatial structure hypothesis
recycling system development of urban form
guideline concept water-cooling infrastructure
waste-water and digester system
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