The Knitting
The Knitting
Competition Entry
Year: 2023
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Program: Innovation hub, Exhibition
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Downtown Cairo has formidable Intervention of activities, it’s a place where you can find myriad of people that have creative and innovative Intellect.
Therefore, it is considered to be a vigorous and important place to innovate.
The encounters that prevent the creative process is the lack of workspaces, creative hub and exhibitions, Hence the concept is to create a Vigorous system that triggers the creation.
Rent and land prices are very high, as for that the idea came to turn most of the applicable parking into an innovation hubs, by placing a rotary parking system to fulfil the needs of the parking slots and constructing the innovative system instead. Thereby the idea is to create a system that can flexibly extend or move to accompany the rapidly alteration of the youth.
The idea is to create a system that can flexibly extend or move to accompany the rapidly alteration of the youth. KNITTING is a place for knowledge, culture, enabling the process, social interaction and simulation. Building is lifted up by 6 meter to liberate the street elevation line of the heritage surroundings to the ground floor users.
KNITTING is a place for knowledge, culture, enabling the process, social interaction and simulation.
Building is lifted up by 6 meter to liberate the street elevation line of the heritage surroundings to the ground floor users.
Slightly shifting the ground floor below the street level to make some sort of isolation, and turning the green area around the building a rising slope to functioned as a steet extension and setting area to the pass by users.
Making the ground floor a semi-open space that visually connected to the surrounding heritage build-ings, elevation by lifting the skin gives the place the ability to act as a Central Park for people to share knowledge, play around, and hold events and talks.
A spirited layout design to accompany the crowd various activities, also the entrances were come from the axis between Tahrir square and Mohamed Farid, the other lines are acting as an extension for streets around the plot, the two cores were placed where they wouldn’t be a visual hindrance to the surroundings. The sphere will act as a slightly sloped exhibition, the journey will start with a central circular space and gradually moving upward to experiment with the multi layered exhibits, the spiral ramp also acts as a platform to view the heritage.
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