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Bachelor Book 2013/2014 German University in Cairo Architecture and Urban Design Program Concept, Layout: Thomas Loeffler Walid Elshamy Ibrahim Samy Omar Kassab with Support of: Regina Rammelt Photos: GUC Staff

©GUC 2014 Main Entrance of Al Tagamoa Al Khames 11835 New Cairo City Cairo – Egypt www. architecture. guc.edu.eg printed by: A.R. Group The Print House 26, Mohamed Mazhar Str. Zamalek, Cairo 11211 Egypt September 2015

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Bachelorbook

2013/2014

German University in Cairo Architecture and Urban Design Program 3

Contents

Preface

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Bachelor Topics

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German Embassy in Cairo

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Ahmed Ghazy Ahmed Alaa El Dein Hegazy Ahmed El-Shihy Ahmed Ades Amir Micheail Hadeer Amin Dina Mansour Hesham Balbaa Hossam Yousef Islam Amin Karim El Mandoury Mark Iskander Nada Adel Asker Nourhan Mostafa Omar Ghandour Yomna Ellebedy Youssef Sameh Ziad Ghazy

New Cairo Interbau

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Omar Kassab Tameem Mohsen Noha Salama Ahmed Nagy Rehab Ayman Karen Emad Sanaa Ahmed Ahmed Ossama Marwa Adel Menna Osama Maryam Fouda Rana Gahin

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Heba Haitham Maha Mourad Nouran El-Sherif Gina Maher Maha Mostafa Mona Zohdy Pakinam Eid Mohamed Alaa

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Dahab Lodge

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Dina Mohamed Hamamo Marco Michel Aziz Omar Tarik Bishr Salma Aly Hassan Sandra Hany Kamel

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Cairene Vibe

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Ibrahim Hany Anwar

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Stuttgart Stรถckach

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Aly Demerdash Omar Mohamed Diab Karim Abdul Hameed Ezzat Marwah Garib Mohammed Arshed Badreldin Sara Kessba

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Stuttgart Autogrill

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Yomna El Gendy Sandi Boulos

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Bachelor Topics Credits

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Preface

Another successful year has come to an end!

At the beginning of the yearbook, I would like to thank all staff members: professors and teaching assistants, as well as all students, for the dedication and hard work each one has invested to complete our third academic year successfully. With a total of 284 students in the three years and 32 staff members, we have accomplished a great deal and have much to be proud of.

We are still following the same mission and vision: The Architecture and Urban Design Program is dedicated to advancing and improving the awareness, understanding, and practice of Architecture and Urban Design as an interdisciplinary field of science, focusing strongly on Building Technology and Building Physics. “At the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design, we strive to graduate highly sought-after architects, to carry out research that serves the industry and to become a role model educational institution.�

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This semester, besides teaching and research, we carried out different activities, including the organization of workshops and summer schools in Cairo and Stuttgart, as well as a variety of guest lectures in Cairo, within the frameworks of a number of courses. Moreover, we continued the planning and supervision activities of the GUC new buildings.

During the past semester, we also worked on establishing an Architecture and Urban Design Unit at the GUC Campus in Berlin; as a result, 28 students from the 7th semester will study there in WS 2013/2014. Our aim is to have more students studying at the GUC Campus in Berlin for more semesters during the second half of their study of architecture.

This yearbook is a display of the work students produced throughout two semesters: WS2012 and SS2013. It shows a large number of successful projects and assignments, stretching over a range of disciplines from Visual Design and Design Projects to Building Construction and Building Physics. I would like to extend my thanks and gratitude to Assoc. Prof. Thomas Loeffler for the huge effort he put in the production of this book.

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Looking forward to another productive year!

Thanks to all‌ Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tamer El Khorazaty Dean of the Architecture and Urban Design Program German University in Cairo

GUC Bachelor Staff Prof. Dr.-Ing. Helmut Bott, Founding Dean Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tamer El Khorzaty, Acting Dean

GERMAN EMBASSY CAIRO Staff: Dr.-Ing Thomas Loeffler, Assoc. Professor Dr. Wafaa Nadim, Lecturer MSc. Arch. Ibrahim Samy MSc. Arch. Menna Agha

(image 287x287 mm 200dpi) (image design by Ibrahim Samy)

NEW CAIRO INTERBAU Design of An Innovative Residential Complex Staff: Dr.-Ing Florian Seidel, Assoc. Professor Dipl.-Ing Vlatka Seremet, Lecturer Dipl.-Ing Sahra Rheinfrank MSc. Arch. Walid El-Shamy

BACHELOR TITLE OF THE PROJECT_2 COURSE / PROJECT TITLEGERMAN NEW OF THE COURSE EMBASSY / PROJECT IN CAIRO Open Planning Course description and Calibri Designsize Competition: 12 Course description Calibri size 12 Course description The diplomatic Calibri representation size 12 Course ofdescription the FederalCalibri Republic size of 12 Germany Course description in Cairo is Calibri sizeusing currently 12 Course a building description which was Calibri designed size 12 in Course the mid-1970s description and Calibri was finished size 121982. in Course The description building ensemble Calibri sizeincludes 12 Course both description the chancellery Calibri size building 12 Course and the description Calibri ambassador’s residence. size 12 Course description Calibri size 12 Course description Calibri sizedue Especially 12 Course to necessary description security Calibri separation size 12areas, Coursethe description building configuration Calibri size 12 Course has massive description non-compensable Calibri size deficits 12 Course due to description the currently Calibri adjacent size 12 buildings.

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Course description Adaptation Calibri to the size specific 12 Course local clidescription matic conditions Calibriis size of particular 12 Courseimportance. description Calibri size 12 Course description-

DAHAB LODGE Staff: Dr. Cornelia Redekar, Assoc. Professor Dipl.-Ing. Barbara Pampe, Associate Professor MSc. Arch. Hazem Fouad BSc. Arch. Hassan Ghayesh 8

SUNDAY DATES AND AND TIME WEDNESDAY SUBMISSION / SCALES ETC.

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Wafaa Nadim Teaching Assistants Prof.

Bernd Bess T eaching Assistants TA. Menna Agha Teaching Assistants TA. Ibrahim Samy

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CAIRENE VIBE Upgrade Bulaq Abu El Ela Staff: Dr. Cornelia Redekar, Assoc. Professor Dipl.-Ing. Barbara Pampe, Associate Professor MSc. Arch. Hazem Fouad BSc. Arch. Hassan Ghayesh Institute of Urban Planning and Design

Chair of Urban design

Prof. Bott

SS 2014

STUTTGART AUTOGRILL Hybrid Bridge-Restaurants Staff: Prof. Dr. Ing Helmut Bott, University of Stuttgart Dipl - Ing Raphael Dietz MSc. Arch. Salah Fahmy

Stuttgart Stรถckach

sustainable redevelopment of the parkway district

STUTTGART STOCKACH

Sustainable Redevelopment of the Parkway District

Staff: Prof. Dr. Ing Stephen Engelsmann, University of Stuttgart Dipl - Ing Justus Dietz 9

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GERMAN EMBASSY IN CAIRO CONSTRUCTION OF NEW CHANCELLERY AND RESIDENCE

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GERMAN EMBASSY CAIRO

CONSTRUCTION OF NEW CHANCELLERY AND RESIDENCE

Staff: Assoc. Prof. Thomas Loeffler Assoc. Prof. Wafaa Nadim MSc. Arch. Menntallah Agha MSc. Arch. Ibrahim Saleh

External Committee: Prof. Dr.-Ing Tamer El Khorazaty, German University in Cairo Prof. Peter Schuermann, University of Stuttgart Assoc. Prof. Thomas Loeffler, German Universtiy in Cairo

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GERMAN EMBASSY CAIRO

CONSTRUCTION OF NEW CHANCELLERY AND RESIDENCE Project Description The diplomatic representation of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cairo is currently using a building which was designed in the mid-1970s and was finished in 1982. The building ensemble includes both the chancellery building and the ambassador’s residence. The competition for the new embassy in Cairo builds up on the fact that the existing the building configuration has massive non-compensable deficits due to the currently adjacent buildings.

This Bachelor Project builds upon the international open planning & design competition for designing and building a new German Embassy in Cairo which is intended to substitute the old building on the same site in the district Zamalek as a sustainable and economic solution. Nevertheless, the required usable and residential space for the new build covers around 3500m2 but for security reasons the developable area is around 1,550 m2.

German Embassies should always showcase the German Building culture as well as conveying the current standards of sustainable building. While the challenge lies on fulfilling the strict security requirements the embassy should convey a hospitable and open impression.

The official competition program was the baseline which had been adhered to for the Bachelor Project the submission requirements, however, they were tailored to accommodate educational and curricula requisites.

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“Embassy: a body of persons entrusted with a mission to a govereign or government, especially an ambassador and his or her staff. (dictionary.com). It is basically a representation of a country in the form of a building located on a land other than its own “ausland”. This only becomes possible with a governed set of rules, some partial and some compulsory. That is, an embassy should be a friendly welcoming building that fits into the surroundings smoothly yet simultaneously speak loud of the country it represents. A contradiction that is accompanied with one more uneasy condition, that is, it is to be with no exception or doubt highly secured and with surveillance, Ready to exist as an ally and/or an enemy.”

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Ahmed Ghazy Following the requirements of the competition guidelines of having the chancellery and the residence as two separate function but at the same time integrated in one building, from here the main concept of the form was created. The main idea was to have to separate masses connected to each other, so the primary form consists of two cuboids with different proportions opposing each other, the bigger one for the chancellery and visa office and the smaller one for the residence connected on the first floor visually not functionally with a strip connection sliced into the two masses.

The main idea of the connection was to connect the two masses

visually to create a one building situation but at the same time unconnected functionally.

The primary distribution of functions was to have the visa office on the east side completely separated from the residence, the chancellery in the middle and the residence on the west side with direct access to the garden.

The over hanging connection created an interesting space with a special quality between the two buildings specially after subtracting part of it for lightening this area. Two large atriums were subtracted from the chancellery for light, ventilation and visual relationships between buildings parts.

Different aspects concerning social and environmental measures were taken into consideration such as informal gathering spaces, open spaces, quality of working space, in addition to shading, light, ventilation and thermal comfort strategies with high energy efficiency and low energy consumption were considered.

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Ground floor

First floor storage

cleaning

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chair storage

personnel recreation room

daily supply

driver's waiting room

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Third floor

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Energy Concepts

Thermal Insulation

Red line indicates the thermal insulation layer rapping the outer structure of the building

Thermal Insulation

Day light enters the building through the north facade with low intensity and from the south and sky light with high intensity,so shading elements are applied on south facade and sky light to reduce light intensity and heat

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Shading in Summer

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East and West Shading Elements

The diagram shows the east and west horizontal louvers, in east during sunrise and in west during sunset the sun angle is nearly perpendicular to the building. so horizontal louvers are closed to reflect direct sunlight and allow indirect sunlight to enter the room from a small distance under the louvers

Night Ventilation

During winter, sun angle is slightly low that sunrays falls nearly perpendicular on the building which enters through the south facade windows and warm the building, still shading elements are needed to be closed in case of over heating

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Cooled night air enters the building from the north facade windows and north side of sky light passing by the buildings atriums pushing hot air outside through the south facade windows to reduce the building's structure temperature

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During day time air conditioning system passing through building corridors and atriums supply the building with cooled air which moves downwards due to its high density and replaced by hot air until the building temperature is reduced

Thermally Activated Slab

Thermally Activated Slab + Air Conditioning System

Using thermally activated slabs to cool the offices by passing cooled water through embedded water pipes in the concrete slab which reduced the slab temperature thus reducing the temperature of air touching the slab which falls down and replaced by hot air until the room temperature decreases applying thermal comfort for occupants On extremely hot summer days the activated slab is not efficient enough to cool the room so air conditioning system is used to supply the room with cold air for faster cooling of the room. cooled air enters the room through air conditioning passing through corridor, cooled air falls down and hot air moves upward reaching the activated slab thus cooled until room temperature drops

flooring 4cm mortar 2cm sand 4cm moisture proofing layer 2cm thermal insulation 10cm reinforced concrete 20cm render 1.5cm

Facade Concept

Dividing the facade vertically equal by 1 meter grid which will be the width of each concrete panel

Aligning the concrete panels vertically with the top edge of each window as a primary distribution

Subtracting large openings from the facade for common spaces to add quality to the facade and break regularity

Shifting the concrete panels vertically to have an interesting shifting pattern to have the same language

flooring mortar sand sound insulation reinforced concrete render

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flooring mortar sand sound insulation reinforced concrete render

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flooring mortar sand sound insulation reinforced concrete render

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flooring mortar sand sound insulation reinforced concrete render

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flooring mortar sand sound insulation reinforced concrete render

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Concrete cladding Thermal Insulation Brick Wall render

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Concrete cladding Thermal Insulation Brick Wall render

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Shifting the concrete panels vertically to have an interesting shifting pattern to have the same language

Engraving the panels above and below each window to highlight the windows' panels

flooring 2cm Mortar 2cm sand 4cm ordinary concrete slab 15cm moisture proofing layer 1cm ordinary concrete slab 15cm

Facade Section

Interlocking tiles 6cm Mortar 2cm sand 4cm ordinary concrete slab 15cm

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Ahmed Alaa El Dein Hegazy An embassy is considered to be a country’s representation as it is held responsible of the political and diplomatic mission in the host country. However, an embassy should be perceived in a manner of transparency , openness and diplomacy. A number of significant challenges were imposed in the design of the German Embassy in Cairo. A key problem which also was among the main motives for the requirement of a new design was security issues due to the sensitive location in Zamalek and the sensitive political scene within Cairo in general. Thus, a large restrain in the design was a 20 meter setback from the site edges.

Another main complimentary challenge was the very complex design program including area and circulation requirements.

Parallel to that, there was the restrain of energy conservation and building sustainability that was overcame using several shading techniques, wall insulation and solar panels.

To sum up, the project had a lot of design obstacles to overcome considering security and functional issues along with the challenge of representing Germany in a physical form that simply suites the host country. Yet, we conclude the cruciality of utilizing the surroundings of the site in the design process.

However, the importance of the building is given from how they are defined by circulation as well as usage of greenery for shading adds value to the design. In such a complex design process the addition of atriums are very practical solution for lighting, ventilation and separation. However, it proved a better design decision to separate the embassy into several simple units in it to have on complex unit.

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Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan 23

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Wall Section 24

South Elevation

East Elevation

West Elevation

North Elevation

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Energy Concept & Envelop Materials

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Ahmed El-Shihy The design addressed three main issues: the Nile view (the angle of the building is fixed perpendicular to the Nile view for the best use of view), the wind direction (the building’s angle is fixed to allow the wind to come through the windows and wind catchers to get the air flow into a path that is created by the longitude corridor and the atriums to divide the airflow in an equal way as possible), and the surrounding sites (the slight change in the angle creates the biggest view for the surrounding to be seen from the Nile river to the fish garden).

Shading strategies: after implementing the PVC it couldn’t be the only way to shade the building or to give the required confidentiality that is required for the embassy so a parapet was set, and due to the unease in opening the glazing when it is inclined, the glazing was set to be straight with an angle 90 degrees perpendicular to the slab.

Ventilation: includes skylight and atriums. The skylight was implemented in order to allow the sun to enter the building through the top floor and entering also to the floors under via an atrium.

Cooling strategies: wind catchers were used by fixing the building’s angle to get air flow into a path that is created by the longitudinal corridor and the atriums to divide the airflow equal in the floors.

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L ayout

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Basement Floor Plan 27

South Elevation

North Elevation

East Elevation

West Elevation

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Natural Light: Using natural daylight to reduce the artificial lightening in the building as well as using skylights and implementing the shading system in the right way and the right size and orientation of the windows plays the role not only in the wind and air flow entering the building but also in the natural daylight entering the building as well.

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