Magdy El Khouly Road Rehab / Ahmed Hossam Saafan

Magdy El Khouly Road Rehab / Ahmed Hossam Saafan

Textual content description offered by the architects. Following the resonance of the Dawar El Ezba cultural heart, a sprout of city renewal has been launched within the coronary heart of Ezbet Khairallah. The venture got here out of a rigorous technique of neighborhood participation to create a secure setting for youths, girls, and males. Furthermore, introduce city improvements that would improve their high quality of life.The venture’s method was primarily based on a sequence of neighborhood conferences during which the design enter was indicated. However, methodologies of development included using supplies and labor from the world itself to advertise financial sustainability.

The venture included a refurbishment of constructing elevations, infrastructure, avenue benches, pavers, landscaping, lighting, and a removable multipurpose use child’s space. The sequence of workshops had been primarily based on the imposition of the query “what’s the avenue to you?” In a spot like Ezbet Khairallah, the road is the whole lot. At instances, it’s the residing courtyard for sitting and sharing, and at different instances it’s a spot for festivities on which the entire space is shifted into one huge corridor.

In the middle of two years by means of this venture, the identification of such a notion was continually altering resulting from phrases involved with possession, choice, and compromise. Transferring on with the venture, it got here as a realization that primary requirements corresponding to paving, infrastructure, and lighting had been way more necessary than an introduction to new architectural languages. Nevertheless, whereas working with the method, new concepts and paradigms had been launched to vary the city dialogue which is among the core ideas of the Dawar el Ezba Cultural Heart.

The design technique centered on making a palette on which quite simple colours may very well be laid to tone down the set of un-patterned environments. Furthermore, including to an current layer of murals and interventions to chop again on a restricted funds in addition to keep a relatable identification. Refined additions abstracted from conventional higher Egypt homes lined the home windows, playful patterns of pavers incite the excessive inhabitants of youngsters to work together, and easy picket brick-laid benches affirm the “Mastaba” precept in outdated Egyptian homes. The road then turns into a residing vibrant setting free from dangerous habits corresponding to drug use and harassment prompted earlier by the deterioration of avenue parts.

This venture is however a mere continuation of a rising sprout initiated by Dawar for arts and improvement and is proof of a rising risk for Ezbet Khairallah in Cairo.