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Egyptian Everyday Urbanism: An Urban DIY Exposé – at Venice Biennale 2018

ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, URBAN, VIDEO, PLACEMAKING

Project Location: Cairo, Egypt
Competition: Egyptian Pavilion, Venice Bienniale 2018
Project Team: Afaf Badran, Lara Waked, Hana Al-Barazi, Osama Marouf, Ali Mosleh Hammad, Menna Badran, AL-shima’a Yusef
Project Status: Short listed

Our proposal for the Venice Biennale 2018 Egyptian Pavilion is an Egyptian Do It Yourself Urban Exposé.
With the set theme ‘Freespace’, we chose to focus on people making and using space freely on everyday basis in the streets of Cairo. We highlighted not only free space-hacking, but positively, the wonderful energy produced by the ordinary people who want to live and make a living. We brought to light another unique aspect which is the urban sound scape. The proposal aimed at bringing to light the typical Egyptian/Cairo street ambiance with all its vibrance, something that is definitely missed by those who think tourism is about seeing buildings and uninhabited beautiful open spaces or by merely visiting artifact museums.

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The Foldable Roof Parade

PRODUCT, DESIGN, URBAN, ARCHITECTURE

Project Location: Paseo de Castellana, Madrid, Spain
Project type: Academic Construction Workshop at IE University, Spain
Supervisor: Manuel Perez Romero
Project Status: Submitted Spring 2013

What happens when you want to pack your pitched-roof off to a parade? An Origami inspired fold system is developed and operated by a cable structure system. Designed to adapt when a light parade is beneath along the walkway or over bazaar booths aside the walkway, the structure is one-sidedly supported. The materials of the coated wood for the roofing and corrugated fiberglass packaging and structural support helps leverage the light weight of the structure for ease of transport and assembly. The challenge lies to rethink roofing elements of a parade or circus by identifying the elements of structure in relation to the functionality of the the object as a whole and defining the process of its assembly thought development of it technical details.

Afghanistan National Museum – Stop Motion

ARCHITECTURE, STOPMOTION, VIDEO, DOCUMENTARY, DESIGN

Project Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Project type: Academic Design Studio at IE University, Spain
Supervisor: Manuel Ocaña
Project Status: Submitted Fall 2012