CULTURAL LANDSCAPES AND URBAN RESILIENCE
The goal for this 2-week course at the Summer School of the Bauhaus University in Weimar was to project strategic environmentally-friendly solutions based on previously manually-made thermal maps.
MY NEIGHBOURHOOD: EZBET EL-NASR
An informal isolated settlement in the periphery of the city, with two important highways bordering the area east and south as big barriers . Ezbet El-Nasr needs whether a better. Desert in the past, this has reached a medium-high densification of people from outside of Cairo
FIRST APPROACH: THE THERMAL MAP.
On this map we appreciate three main different issues:
Firstly, a big red hot area on the west part of our assigned neighbourhood, a desert non-built area.
Secondly, just beside going to the south we find a yellowish area with a milder surface temperature, where we find a little grove grown without organisation.
Thirdly, a variable distribution of the surface temperature inside the built part of the neighbourhood.
SEVERAL ALEATORY ANALYSIS: THE DIFFERENT URBAN PATTERNS
SECOND BIGGEST JEWISH CEMETERY IN THE WORLD
One of the most curious aspects of this place that could lead this strategy was to find an abandoned huge Jewish cemetery.
During my extensive analysis of different parameters, I decide to isolate the green areas existing on the map, discovering an emerging organic green system divided in four different sub-systems/layers.
REFERENCE OF CORDOBA (SPAIN)
We remember the case of the historic centre of Cordoba (Spain), where this organisation of the green, the void and the full is balanced for centuries. I perceive a system of 4 green different areas based on their scale.
RESULTING STRATEGY: GREEN + LIGHT SYSTEM
As a result, I take advantage of the systematized perspective to make the most of the previous organic development. Four variables take part on this proposal, according to four different found areas.
TYPE 1: The green centre
Ezbet El-Nasr, as an isolated neighbourhood, needs to take advantage of its strengths to create a metropolitan centrality that could attract people from somewhere else or just characterize a greater identity.
It has the worldwide second biggest Jewish cemetery, as I show on the photo below. This can be the turning point to its centralization.
TYPE 2: The main paths
Some trees are already planted in these places, and this is the chance to create kind of an organic linear path that emphasize the most important streets.
TYPE 3: Little squares
In this organic weft I find several voids with enough space for a little green area to enhace little centres around the neighbourhood.
TYPE 4: Collective and private green exterior for little voids between private plots.
Just following the Cordoba reference and its Andalusian cortijos, the main goal here is to enhance the community and the support between families living in contiguous lots.
Finally these four types of the system are grouped together in this section. Follow the next link to see this section bigger.
This work is promoted by the Bauhaus University in Weimar and the Integrated Urban Development and Design.
GROUP FINAL POSTER
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