Year: 2022
Project by: Abdallah Kamel
Project by: Abdallah Kamel
Farouk Hosni Competition entry
Area: 3500 sq. m
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Program: Innovation hub, Exhibition
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Program: Innovation hub, Exhibition
Softwares: Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, Photoshop, Lumion, illustrator, V-Ray
Role: Individual
Role: Individual
Downtown cairo has formidable Intervention of activities, it’s a place where you can find myriad of people that have creative and innovative Intellect.
Therefore it is considered to be a vigorous and important place to innovate.
The encounters that prevent the creative process is the lack of workspaces,creative hub and exhibitions, Hence the concept is to create a Vigorous system that triggers the creation.
Rent and land prices are very high, as for that the idea came to turn most of the applicable parkings into an innovation hubs, by placing a rotary parking system to fulfill the needs of the parking slots and constructing the innovative system instead.
Thereby the idea is to create a system that can flexibly extend or move to accompany
the rapidly alteration of the youth.
KNITTING is a place for knowledge, culture, enabling the process, social
interaction and simulation.
Building is lifted up by 6 meter to liberate the street elevation line of the heritage surroundings to the ground floor users.
All spaces start from 1 capsule which is the hot desk capsule, hot desk capsules were initiated to be easy to relocate or construct., after allowing deep work and isolation with hot desks other spaces would take place (personal space, collaboration space, making space, presentation space, intermission space).
Slightly shifting the ground floor below the street level to make some sort of isolation, and turning the green area around the building a rising slope to functioned as a steet extension and setting area to the pass by users.
Making the ground floor a semi open space that visually connected to the surrounded hirtage buildings elevation by lifting the skin gives the place the ability to act as a Central Park for people to share knowledge, play around, make events and talks.
Making the ground floor a semi open space that visually connected to the surrounded hirtage buildings elevation by lifting the skin gives the place the ability to act as a Central Park for people to share knowledge, play around, make events and talks.
A spirited layout design to accompany the crowd various activities, also the entrances were come from the axis between Tahrir square and mohamed farid, the other lines are acting as an extension for streets around the plot, the two cores were placed where they wouldn’t be a visual hindrance to the surroundings.
The sphere will act as a slightly sloped exhibition, the journey will start with a central circular space and gradually moving upward to experiment the multi layered exhibits, the spiral ramp also acts as a platform to view the heritage downtown skyline, when skin is open, the central circular space will act as a stage for audience and streets pass by users.
Before placing the building the visual axis were poor because of the traffic jam all the day and countless billboards, thereby the idea of the main circulation method at the system is the ramps, ramps give the user an energetic experiment, they are totally around the building, using them contiguous to the outer facade, gives them an advantage to act as a platform to view the surrounding heritage.
When thinking about transparency, the solution was to bring the inside building out by freely opening up the facade by a mechanical system, also skin material is translucent to let the light in to give the corridors the feel of liberty.
