Originally, the National Training Academy (NTA) came to life as an idea developed by Egyptian you... more Originally, the National Training Academy (NTA) came to life as an idea developed by Egyptian youths in 2017. However, under the auspices of H.E President Abdelfattah AL-Sisi, the idea transformed into an endeavor that has succeeded, excelled and influenced the concept of design.
NTA's project marked the beginning of a new chapter in landscape design in Egypt, moving from commercial to experimental landscape design, fulfilling the NTA's mission and vision.
The Project has enveloped many national, regional and global challenges but these challenges did not adversely affect the design product which has been dreamed of by the youths dream team working on the project including a group of engineers, architects and associate partners since these professionals believe that the importance of making a difference and changing Egypt's conception of design cannot be overstated. We are working on creating a benchmark project that transforms an existing administrative campus into an interactive learning environment through one of the most challenging renovation and retrofitting projects.
Despite the establishment of many new cities and housing projects by the Egyptian state and the v... more Despite the establishment of many new cities and housing projects by the Egyptian state and the variety of categories from the social housing of the “Dar Masr” to “Sakn Masr”, but the astonishment is the continuous over rated prices of housing, which makes the Egyptian citizen unable to meet his basic need -which is indispensable- in housing.
Believe it or not, that the price of housing unit in social housing category reaches up to 240 thousand Egyptian pounds. Un mentioning, the indescribable feeling you receive based on a marketing message for a housing project in the Italian neighborhood of Badr City - was within the housing project of 63 square meters - telling you about the sale of a number of remaining units at prices starting from 325 thousand LE Installments Over 4 Years!!!
Pier Vittorio Aureli, an architect and educator, proposes that architecture is a reflection for p... more Pier Vittorio Aureli, an architect and educator, proposes that architecture is a reflection for political, social and cultural involvement in the city. In this book, absolute wasn't meant as " pure " from Aureli's point of view but he was referring to it as how something is shown by itself after being separated from other things – standalone-so relevant to the topic of absolute architecture; the architecture is separated from the other thing which is the surrounding or the " urban space ". Taking a closer look to the reflected aspects, we would see that the politics is known for confrontation and separation .Similarly, architectural form is about to separate and be separated showing its own essence and the essence of the city.Aureli pointed to a lot of projects whose architects were concerned about the city as a large massive mass like Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Étienne Louis Boullée, and Oswald Mathias Ungers. The previous architects had been working on the modernization of cities through elaboration of architectural forms. These projects were denoted as " archipelago " to reveal the idea of separation beyond connectivity. (Aureli, MitPress, 2011), (Aureli, The possibility of absolute architecture, 2011) From all the case studies in the book, my main concern was the case of Oswalde Ungers in the last chapter which is depending mainly on our manifestos project " die stadt in der stadt " – Berlin as a green archipelago. Moving towards the 20 th century, Ungers presented the idea of a city within a city, where the preserved clustered buildings act as islands forming the concept of monumentality that is wrapped by mixing raw materials with forms' complexity. From Ungers point of view, he sees that the horizontality of buildings is more functional, where the base is of a mixed use of public facilities and whenever we move up, we got subjected to more private zones. From this, we can conclude that Unger's main idea had fallen for the benefit of Berlin as a green archipelago as its main idea was to depopulate west berlin after the sixties and seventies crisis and to reestablish the areas which were suffering of a great declination in comparison to the western area by separating those parts into urban villas each of a unique and different identity that would be reflected in the design of each archipelago taking into consideration political, economic and developing aspects of the city's natural urban fabric. According to OMA, Unger's idea of a " sea " between the clusters was to connect the city's different typologies and in this manifesto this sea was green referring to green spaces connecting those islands. To conclude, this book is really impressive as it contains various case studies of different special urban fabrics and how they could manage dealing with the concept of the archipelago despite the difference in political, cultural and economic aspects of each city. Also this book ensured the important double sided relation between urbanism and architecture and that they are unseparated halves of forming a city. (Aureli, The possibility of absolute architecture, 2011)
, and most recently, L'Altro Movimento Moderno (2015) and A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Com... more , and most recently, L'Altro Movimento Moderno (2015) and A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form (2015). He is currently at work on an expanded fifth edition of Modern Architecture: A Critical History. Regionalism has dominated architecture in almost all countries at some time during the past two centuries and a half. By way of general definition we can say that it upholds the individual and local architectonic features against more universal and abstract ones. On the one hand, it has been associated with movements of reform and liberation; on the other, it has proved a powerful tool of repression. Certainly, critical regionalism has its limitations. No new architecture can emerge without a new kind of relations between designer and user, without out new kinds of programs. Despite these limitations critical regionalism is a bridge over which any architecture of the future must pass. The fundamental strategy of Critical Regionalism is to mediate the impact of universal civilization with elements derived indirectly from the peculiarities of a particular place. Critical Regionalism depends upon maintaining a high level of critical self-consciousness. It may find its governing inspiration in such things as the range and quality of the local light, or in a tectonic derived from a peculiar structural mode, or in the topography of a given site. From this point Frampton had shown in his essay main ten points towards architecture of regionalism following the traces of Ricoeur's essay " universal civilization and national cultures those points are summarized as follows: Critical regionalism is self-conscious and critical endeavor, simply it should lie beyond style. It's about abandoning the liberal, critical and poetic traditions of this century (retardataire mode). The architectural school acting as a pedagogical and cultural institution.
Sustainability had been a global talk for the last decade, deriving from it the sustainable devel... more Sustainability had been a global talk for the last decade, deriving from it the sustainable development as an escapism from the current deterioration affecting our ecosystem. Sustainable development is focused development to meet the present needs without compromising the chances of upcoming generations to meet their needs from this point many organizations started to monitor globally the threatened future of the nations to develop a sustainable ecosystem. The World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), the Brundtland Commission main objective was to unite countries to adopt sustainable development. Gro Harlem Brundtland, The Chairperson, appointed the Secretary General of the United Nations, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, in 1983. At that time, the UN understood that there was a massive deterioration in the environment and natural resources. Taking a step forward, the UN established the Brundtland Commission. (LeGates and Stout, 2007) Under the slogan of Our Common Future, the commission explained that the city is a man-made construct and that the character and the urban quality are defined by the relationship between the city and the surrounding. Going through the urbanism history, it's quite significant that each city has its own character and each city shows the development of the urban life and its effect on the environment. Recently, sustainability and ecological urbanism had become dominant forces in urban planning. (LeGates and Stout, 2007) The main goal for seeking the concept of sustainable development is to meet the needs of the present without compromising the chances of the future generations for a better future. According to the previous many steps acted as a response for this goal sparkling the vision of sustainability; Rio Declaration on Environment and Development was released in 1992,The Kyoto Protocol on global climatic changes in 1997-99 and The World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002.On contrast to all the previous response, The Brundtland report had faced many oppositions seeing that it attacks capitalism for governments regulations of economy as mentioned by the conservatives at the very beginning. Comparing the opening of this century to its closure, we will find out that a profound change took place and that the speed of this change is terrifying leading to cumulative pollution and shortage in basic resources and elements as water and soil. All the nations around the world are merely affected; developing countries faces desertification, pollution and poverty, industrial nation's faces toxicity, all the
this paper is about retrofitting smart systems in an existing building . it was applied on one of... more this paper is about retrofitting smart systems in an existing building . it was applied on one of the buildings of faculty of engineering cairo university and the project was promoted to one of the international competitions in italy at university of florence.
During the day, the exterior environment is flooded with ambient light from the sun and sky. Not ... more During the day, the exterior environment is flooded with ambient light from the sun and sky. Not only are light levels high, but the distribution of natural light is somewhat uniform. The nighttime environment is completely different, with a dark sky vault and lots of local man-made light sources. High contrast and the potential for glare are much higher at night, so the nightscape strategies of a city are as important as how it looks like during the daytime. It is becoming more and more significant because it can be treated as a re-introduction of the city during the night. Due to the development of city economy and citizens’ leisure life, people are paying more attention to their nightlife. With appropriate lighting design and illumination systems, a city can draw very impressive pictures as its ‘identification card’ to the whole world.
This research investigates the impact of integrated sustainable dynamic working built-environment... more This research investigates the impact of integrated sustainable dynamic working built-environment designs enriched with sustainability principles on the attitudes, performance, and productivity of users (referred to as “employees”) within diverse organizational cultures in Egyptian governmental organizations. The study, spanning 24 months, employs mixed methods approach to gather quantitative data on the correlation between working built-environment design and employees’ outcomes, complemented by qualitative insights through conducted online questionnaire. The research aims to compare the specific differences in employees’ attitudes, performance, and productivity in traditional governmental working built-environment designs in Egypt and the integrated approach for the governmental working built-environment designs in Egypt to be introduced as a benchmark in one of the Egyptian governmental organizations. Additionally, it examines the contributions of sustainability integration to the overall organizational effectiveness. The study seeks to provide evidence-based recommendations for optimizing a benchmark approach for governmental working built-environment designs in Egypt, fostering organizational effectiveness in the unique sampling context of governmental organizations in Egypt. Keywords: Sustainable working built-environment, Dynamic design, Sustainability principles, Organizational culture diversity, Employee attitudes, Performance, Productivity, User-friendly design, Traditional working built-environment, Governmental organizations, Egypt, Organizational effectiveness.
“Architecture is an international language that unites the world “from this point it had been a p... more “Architecture is an international language that unites the world “from this point it had been a passion all over the years for engineers specially architects to be the crème de la crème of the society searching for new trends and techniques , integrating technologies and art to take the world into a magical world where all the needs of the users are to be real as those needs are the motives for the designers to interpret into a real mass. In this paper, we will present a new concept which is “vertical communities “ and how they would be a good way to solve the over population problem in our societies specially that Egypt is one of the over rated countries in population rate with 90,000,000 citizens according to the statistics of 2015. We will talk about tall buildings and their concepts, Precedents of tall buildings and vertical communities, the site selection and its analysis from the geographical, Climatic, economical, architectural and societal analysis, the concept of design, vision and goal. Also the design Standards and the zoning will be mentioned as well as the different proposals of massing showing their SWOT analysis in order to set the right decision in selection of the form and the final zoning and proposed program. By the end of this paper, we should present a complete content and an integrated design of a vertical community Which will transform the culture of the Arab citizens beyond the idea of the vertical communities.
Originally, the National Training Academy (NTA) came to life as an idea developed by Egyptian you... more Originally, the National Training Academy (NTA) came to life as an idea developed by Egyptian youths in 2017. However, under the auspices of H.E President Abdelfattah AL-Sisi, the idea transformed into an endeavor that has succeeded, excelled and influenced the concept of design.
NTA's project marked the beginning of a new chapter in landscape design in Egypt, moving from commercial to experimental landscape design, fulfilling the NTA's mission and vision.
The Project has enveloped many national, regional and global challenges but these challenges did not adversely affect the design product which has been dreamed of by the youths dream team working on the project including a group of engineers, architects and associate partners since these professionals believe that the importance of making a difference and changing Egypt's conception of design cannot be overstated. We are working on creating a benchmark project that transforms an existing administrative campus into an interactive learning environment through one of the most challenging renovation and retrofitting projects.
Despite the establishment of many new cities and housing projects by the Egyptian state and the v... more Despite the establishment of many new cities and housing projects by the Egyptian state and the variety of categories from the social housing of the “Dar Masr” to “Sakn Masr”, but the astonishment is the continuous over rated prices of housing, which makes the Egyptian citizen unable to meet his basic need -which is indispensable- in housing.
Believe it or not, that the price of housing unit in social housing category reaches up to 240 thousand Egyptian pounds. Un mentioning, the indescribable feeling you receive based on a marketing message for a housing project in the Italian neighborhood of Badr City - was within the housing project of 63 square meters - telling you about the sale of a number of remaining units at prices starting from 325 thousand LE Installments Over 4 Years!!!
Pier Vittorio Aureli, an architect and educator, proposes that architecture is a reflection for p... more Pier Vittorio Aureli, an architect and educator, proposes that architecture is a reflection for political, social and cultural involvement in the city. In this book, absolute wasn't meant as " pure " from Aureli's point of view but he was referring to it as how something is shown by itself after being separated from other things – standalone-so relevant to the topic of absolute architecture; the architecture is separated from the other thing which is the surrounding or the " urban space ". Taking a closer look to the reflected aspects, we would see that the politics is known for confrontation and separation .Similarly, architectural form is about to separate and be separated showing its own essence and the essence of the city.Aureli pointed to a lot of projects whose architects were concerned about the city as a large massive mass like Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Étienne Louis Boullée, and Oswald Mathias Ungers. The previous architects had been working on the modernization of cities through elaboration of architectural forms. These projects were denoted as " archipelago " to reveal the idea of separation beyond connectivity. (Aureli, MitPress, 2011), (Aureli, The possibility of absolute architecture, 2011) From all the case studies in the book, my main concern was the case of Oswalde Ungers in the last chapter which is depending mainly on our manifestos project " die stadt in der stadt " – Berlin as a green archipelago. Moving towards the 20 th century, Ungers presented the idea of a city within a city, where the preserved clustered buildings act as islands forming the concept of monumentality that is wrapped by mixing raw materials with forms' complexity. From Ungers point of view, he sees that the horizontality of buildings is more functional, where the base is of a mixed use of public facilities and whenever we move up, we got subjected to more private zones. From this, we can conclude that Unger's main idea had fallen for the benefit of Berlin as a green archipelago as its main idea was to depopulate west berlin after the sixties and seventies crisis and to reestablish the areas which were suffering of a great declination in comparison to the western area by separating those parts into urban villas each of a unique and different identity that would be reflected in the design of each archipelago taking into consideration political, economic and developing aspects of the city's natural urban fabric. According to OMA, Unger's idea of a " sea " between the clusters was to connect the city's different typologies and in this manifesto this sea was green referring to green spaces connecting those islands. To conclude, this book is really impressive as it contains various case studies of different special urban fabrics and how they could manage dealing with the concept of the archipelago despite the difference in political, cultural and economic aspects of each city. Also this book ensured the important double sided relation between urbanism and architecture and that they are unseparated halves of forming a city. (Aureli, The possibility of absolute architecture, 2011)
, and most recently, L'Altro Movimento Moderno (2015) and A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Com... more , and most recently, L'Altro Movimento Moderno (2015) and A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form (2015). He is currently at work on an expanded fifth edition of Modern Architecture: A Critical History. Regionalism has dominated architecture in almost all countries at some time during the past two centuries and a half. By way of general definition we can say that it upholds the individual and local architectonic features against more universal and abstract ones. On the one hand, it has been associated with movements of reform and liberation; on the other, it has proved a powerful tool of repression. Certainly, critical regionalism has its limitations. No new architecture can emerge without a new kind of relations between designer and user, without out new kinds of programs. Despite these limitations critical regionalism is a bridge over which any architecture of the future must pass. The fundamental strategy of Critical Regionalism is to mediate the impact of universal civilization with elements derived indirectly from the peculiarities of a particular place. Critical Regionalism depends upon maintaining a high level of critical self-consciousness. It may find its governing inspiration in such things as the range and quality of the local light, or in a tectonic derived from a peculiar structural mode, or in the topography of a given site. From this point Frampton had shown in his essay main ten points towards architecture of regionalism following the traces of Ricoeur's essay " universal civilization and national cultures those points are summarized as follows: Critical regionalism is self-conscious and critical endeavor, simply it should lie beyond style. It's about abandoning the liberal, critical and poetic traditions of this century (retardataire mode). The architectural school acting as a pedagogical and cultural institution.
Sustainability had been a global talk for the last decade, deriving from it the sustainable devel... more Sustainability had been a global talk for the last decade, deriving from it the sustainable development as an escapism from the current deterioration affecting our ecosystem. Sustainable development is focused development to meet the present needs without compromising the chances of upcoming generations to meet their needs from this point many organizations started to monitor globally the threatened future of the nations to develop a sustainable ecosystem. The World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), the Brundtland Commission main objective was to unite countries to adopt sustainable development. Gro Harlem Brundtland, The Chairperson, appointed the Secretary General of the United Nations, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, in 1983. At that time, the UN understood that there was a massive deterioration in the environment and natural resources. Taking a step forward, the UN established the Brundtland Commission. (LeGates and Stout, 2007) Under the slogan of Our Common Future, the commission explained that the city is a man-made construct and that the character and the urban quality are defined by the relationship between the city and the surrounding. Going through the urbanism history, it's quite significant that each city has its own character and each city shows the development of the urban life and its effect on the environment. Recently, sustainability and ecological urbanism had become dominant forces in urban planning. (LeGates and Stout, 2007) The main goal for seeking the concept of sustainable development is to meet the needs of the present without compromising the chances of the future generations for a better future. According to the previous many steps acted as a response for this goal sparkling the vision of sustainability; Rio Declaration on Environment and Development was released in 1992,The Kyoto Protocol on global climatic changes in 1997-99 and The World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002.On contrast to all the previous response, The Brundtland report had faced many oppositions seeing that it attacks capitalism for governments regulations of economy as mentioned by the conservatives at the very beginning. Comparing the opening of this century to its closure, we will find out that a profound change took place and that the speed of this change is terrifying leading to cumulative pollution and shortage in basic resources and elements as water and soil. All the nations around the world are merely affected; developing countries faces desertification, pollution and poverty, industrial nation's faces toxicity, all the
this paper is about retrofitting smart systems in an existing building . it was applied on one of... more this paper is about retrofitting smart systems in an existing building . it was applied on one of the buildings of faculty of engineering cairo university and the project was promoted to one of the international competitions in italy at university of florence.
During the day, the exterior environment is flooded with ambient light from the sun and sky. Not ... more During the day, the exterior environment is flooded with ambient light from the sun and sky. Not only are light levels high, but the distribution of natural light is somewhat uniform. The nighttime environment is completely different, with a dark sky vault and lots of local man-made light sources. High contrast and the potential for glare are much higher at night, so the nightscape strategies of a city are as important as how it looks like during the daytime. It is becoming more and more significant because it can be treated as a re-introduction of the city during the night. Due to the development of city economy and citizens’ leisure life, people are paying more attention to their nightlife. With appropriate lighting design and illumination systems, a city can draw very impressive pictures as its ‘identification card’ to the whole world.
This research investigates the impact of integrated sustainable dynamic working built-environment... more This research investigates the impact of integrated sustainable dynamic working built-environment designs enriched with sustainability principles on the attitudes, performance, and productivity of users (referred to as “employees”) within diverse organizational cultures in Egyptian governmental organizations. The study, spanning 24 months, employs mixed methods approach to gather quantitative data on the correlation between working built-environment design and employees’ outcomes, complemented by qualitative insights through conducted online questionnaire. The research aims to compare the specific differences in employees’ attitudes, performance, and productivity in traditional governmental working built-environment designs in Egypt and the integrated approach for the governmental working built-environment designs in Egypt to be introduced as a benchmark in one of the Egyptian governmental organizations. Additionally, it examines the contributions of sustainability integration to the overall organizational effectiveness. The study seeks to provide evidence-based recommendations for optimizing a benchmark approach for governmental working built-environment designs in Egypt, fostering organizational effectiveness in the unique sampling context of governmental organizations in Egypt. Keywords: Sustainable working built-environment, Dynamic design, Sustainability principles, Organizational culture diversity, Employee attitudes, Performance, Productivity, User-friendly design, Traditional working built-environment, Governmental organizations, Egypt, Organizational effectiveness.
“Architecture is an international language that unites the world “from this point it had been a p... more “Architecture is an international language that unites the world “from this point it had been a passion all over the years for engineers specially architects to be the crème de la crème of the society searching for new trends and techniques , integrating technologies and art to take the world into a magical world where all the needs of the users are to be real as those needs are the motives for the designers to interpret into a real mass. In this paper, we will present a new concept which is “vertical communities “ and how they would be a good way to solve the over population problem in our societies specially that Egypt is one of the over rated countries in population rate with 90,000,000 citizens according to the statistics of 2015. We will talk about tall buildings and their concepts, Precedents of tall buildings and vertical communities, the site selection and its analysis from the geographical, Climatic, economical, architectural and societal analysis, the concept of design, vision and goal. Also the design Standards and the zoning will be mentioned as well as the different proposals of massing showing their SWOT analysis in order to set the right decision in selection of the form and the final zoning and proposed program. By the end of this paper, we should present a complete content and an integrated design of a vertical community Which will transform the culture of the Arab citizens beyond the idea of the vertical communities.
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NTA's project marked the beginning of a new chapter in landscape design in Egypt, moving from commercial to experimental landscape design, fulfilling the NTA's mission and vision.
The Project has enveloped many national, regional and global challenges but these challenges did not adversely affect the design product which has been dreamed of by the youths dream team working on the project including a group of engineers, architects and associate partners since these professionals believe that the importance of making a difference and changing Egypt's conception of design cannot be overstated. We are working on creating a benchmark project that transforms an existing administrative campus into an interactive learning environment through one of the most challenging renovation and retrofitting projects.
Believe it or not, that the price of housing unit in social housing category reaches up to 240 thousand Egyptian pounds. Un mentioning, the indescribable feeling you receive based on a marketing message for a housing project in the Italian neighborhood of Badr City - was within the housing project of 63 square meters - telling you about the sale of a number of remaining units at prices starting from 325 thousand LE Installments Over 4 Years!!!
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Keywords: Sustainable working built-environment, Dynamic design, Sustainability principles, Organizational culture diversity, Employee attitudes, Performance, Productivity, User-friendly design, Traditional working built-environment, Governmental organizations, Egypt, Organizational effectiveness.
NTA's project marked the beginning of a new chapter in landscape design in Egypt, moving from commercial to experimental landscape design, fulfilling the NTA's mission and vision.
The Project has enveloped many national, regional and global challenges but these challenges did not adversely affect the design product which has been dreamed of by the youths dream team working on the project including a group of engineers, architects and associate partners since these professionals believe that the importance of making a difference and changing Egypt's conception of design cannot be overstated. We are working on creating a benchmark project that transforms an existing administrative campus into an interactive learning environment through one of the most challenging renovation and retrofitting projects.
Believe it or not, that the price of housing unit in social housing category reaches up to 240 thousand Egyptian pounds. Un mentioning, the indescribable feeling you receive based on a marketing message for a housing project in the Italian neighborhood of Badr City - was within the housing project of 63 square meters - telling you about the sale of a number of remaining units at prices starting from 325 thousand LE Installments Over 4 Years!!!
Keywords: Sustainable working built-environment, Dynamic design, Sustainability principles, Organizational culture diversity, Employee attitudes, Performance, Productivity, User-friendly design, Traditional working built-environment, Governmental organizations, Egypt, Organizational effectiveness.