Title:
Resurrection Using Shade
Souq elselah street,District of Hamam Bashtak, Cairo
Souq elselah street,District of Hamam Bashtak, Cairo
Regeneration of the Urban Space in front of Hamam Bashtak
Competition
Brief:
Civilization is the history of people. people can not be submerged in its history and its greatness which is the history of Islam and the history of the eternal Islamic architecture, which will continue to retain its grandeur forever in all ways, defying all circumstances over the ages to remain the beacon of inspiration and sending new thought.
In the search for a way to revive the heritage destroyed over time we found that the shadow is the most important factors that work to revive the shattered parts of the buildings or heritage collapsed completely through the shades had been hanged at the end of the height of buildings. These shades are engraved with the inscriptions and Islamic decorations of the building and when the fall of the sun at a certain time reflect the elevation of the building decorations to revive again and in the absence of the sun at night there is a secondary light source repeats the previous work.
After studying the problem of congestion within the region has to work 3 portals of the area of those gates designed such as the design of the facade of hamam bashtk to highlight it and bear gates in the design of Islamic thought in the decorations and also in what was called el khokha and is the entrances dedicated in the gate, Entrance to the Toktok only and to prevent the entry of cars that cause congestion within the region and also there is another entrance for people to enter the arena and those gates to identify hamam bashtk within the region.
Reviving the area in front of hamam bashtk to create seats to watch the films for history of place and highlight hamam bashtk and also work a barrier between hamam bashtk and the street to maintain it.
Activating entertainment activities in the middle of the street by making seats in the middle of the street, easy opening and closing, and with solar panels to provide energy.
Consumption of the island in the middle of the courtyard to make seats for cafés instead of blocking the road seats cafeterias.
Encouraging the recycling and separation of rubbish and the use of some in the work of some handicrafts.
Encouraging the handicrafts and motivating all the inhabitants of the region to work as follows: The women of the region will make shades of handmade cloth annually and also work handicrafts of iron scrap and sell or display in the annual exhibition.
Encouraging children in the region After the work of statistics for the children of the region we found that there is no way to entertain children in the region and that children behave bad behavior is not appropriate for their age, it was compensated that the child is a tourist guide to his region after teaching the history of that region well and also provide competitions for children to draw the buildings of the historical region and winner His paintings will be hanged on the wall of hamam Bashtak.
The work of revitalizing the elevations of the house of the swaysa by providing openings with some wooden and iron elements of a historical Islamic character.
Use of non-polluted raw materials for the environment like cloth and wood.
The work of the tiles of the basalt region of the area for easy walking in winter.
The design work of the Toktok processions of the area.
Make road plans that explain the history of the region in summary.
Use the sidewalk in the presence of shops beside some of them to display handicrafts.
In the end, make the region more cooperative and directed towards preserving its heritage and benefit from it and its survival.
