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Collaborative Urban Design Studio at Cairo 2020 - Highlights
Collaboration
With plenty of preparation and coordination with the partners, security clearances to enter organizations and travel arrangements, a collaborative studio was planned to be conducted jointly by four international institutions between March 1st and March 4 2020, at Cairo, Egypt.
1.Department of Architecture, School of Sciences and Engineering, the American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt
2.Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University (CU), Egypt
3. Acharya’s NRV School of Architecture, Acharya Institutes, Bangalore
4.Technical University Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany, Gouna Campus
The four days were planned out with great care to maximize the learning experience for everyone involved. Below are some highlights:
Day 1
The inauguration was hosted by American University Cairo at their Oriental Hall, which is a beautiful building maintained in its original magnificence.
One can thus see that the students were exposed to the study area by many experts who have been working on similar projects as well as who have been researching in Cairo on historic preservation and other urban, social, cultural and architectural subjects.
Day 2
The second day was hosted in the heart of the site at Bayt Yakan https://www.cuipcairo.org/en/directory/bayt-yakan. After presentations by Dr. Alaa Habashi and Dr. Ashraf Botros, Dr. Botros took students on a guided tour showing and explaining important aspects of architecture, history, socio-cultural activities, markets, thus pointing out and explaining changes with time and its status as of date.
It was indeed a great leaning experience on the walk, seeing Darb Al Ahmar, monuments and historic buildings in it as well as the Al Azhar Park and efforts by the AKTC.
Day 3
Day three began a presentation on Heritage in Indian Cities by Asst. Prof. Girija Umashankar to give a brief overview on Indian culture and architecture to the international students. The students continued to work on their sites, and visited respective sites as needed.
Day 4
Student groups worked on their presentations in the first half of the day at Bayt Yakan. After lunch everyone moved to Cairo University. The faculty were taken on a small tour of the campus while students prepared to present what they had been working on in the past few days.
Students presented their work on the issues related to historic preservation, urban regeneration, and discussed on possible strategies. Faculty members answered many questions as a guidance to the students’ concerns regarding issues in the Darb Al Ahmar region, specifically the three action areas close to the historic Ayubid Wall.
The event ended with presentation of certificates to all the participants. The whole group went for dinner together on a Boat on the Nile. Students partied singing songs of different cultures.
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The HMT site has been analysed by students with sensory values like smell.
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Another sketch as a tool for analysis. Sketch by Nikita Siddareddy
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Sketch by Nikita Siddhareddy: Students explore mediums such as sketching, to document and understand the site better.
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STAGE 2: The stage two of the studio is focused on SWOT Analysis and understanding the opportunities, potential and problems on the site that need to be addressed. The above map displays the nodes in Kammanahalli.
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The urban studio 2020 has so far been on phase, Review 2 was conducted on the 6th of march 2020 with 95% strength, where the stage-1 was closed successfully with the documentation leading to SWOT.
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Lecture series at the American University of Cairo by the faculty members of ANRVSA, Sheeraz Zaidi and Girija Umashankar, among other speakers to acquaint the students on urban design issues and opportunities. 02.03.2020
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The 10 students of eighth semester architecture of ANRVSA have been working in groups with students from the American University of Cairo, Cairo University and TU Berlin.
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The Urban design studio of ANRVSA is underway. The studio collabrates with TU Berlin and Cairo University to study the specific regions of the old city. This picture is from the site study on 03.03.2020
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Ten students and a couple of faculty members have reached Caio today for a study and design of selected urban areas. Acharya’s NRV School of Architecture collaborates with TU Berlin, Cairo University on this project. More soon from Cairo.
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Church street has been recently modified by the local bodies. The site holds potential for a vibrant, user friendly and sensitive design. The students have started the work on the base plan.
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The students have been given five sites to work on. The sites are in Cairo and Bangalore. Each site presents a vibrant, diverse and intense case with unique issues and potential.
The map above shows the comparison of the built density, studied by students as a comparison over 20 years in Kammanahalli.
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1st design review was successfully conducted with students displaying their documentation and presenting it to the jurors.
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The first stage of the urban design studio - the documentation process started with students studying the landuse maps of their respective sites.
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