ASWAN,EGYPT
The project follow the critical regionalism theory founded by Kenneth Frampton. Instead of viewing the built realm as a collection of poorly staged scenographic events, critical regionalism advocates architecture's construction as a tectonic event.
“The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.” -Albert Einstein
Testing Models
The project responds to the economic injustice for the residents and laborers working in the quarries field. The project presents an opportunity to create a self-sustaining Quarry serving the area's residents to provide them with independence from Private Companies. The quarrying process is a process of transformation that creates a harmonic relation between all the process elements. Moreover, this process combines the imprints of both nature and humans. This process identifies the transformation of imprints from non-uniform to uniform. The transformation is not only included in the textures and imprints. The social and context of the place is affected by this process in one way or another. Thus, the project should celebrate this process by studying and respecting all the aspects of the design process.
Design Program
Projection Drawings
Interior Shots of the project
3D Sections showing the spatial organization of the project
Thermal Baths created after the extraction process of the quarry
The main spine and the primary approach to the project
"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
-Winston Churchill
