DesignBuild: Malaab el Kobri, place under the bridge, 2015
Sportsfacility and community service
Client: Community of Dahab Island
Location: Dahab Island, Cairo District, Egypt
Year: 2015
This Design Build Studio is directed an run at the Urban Design Department of the German University Cairo in cooperation with the local NGO AYB – Alashanek ya Balady.
Malaab el Kobri, the ‘place under the bridge’ is the DesignBuild pilot project of the “EDBKN – European Design Build Knowledge Network” a researh initiative directed by CoCoon and supported other EDBKN members.
It involves the design and implementation of a new football field typology that includes additional community services, i.e. as a gathering space for community meetings and festivities, an open class room, a playground, etc. It further serves as a showcase for decentralized, green infrastructure. As part of a longer-term strategy these programs may also be anticipated in the design, for example as add-ons. The project has been realized by the students in close collaboration with the inhabitants. To avoid the use of concrete and to ensure the temporal quality of the project, it was build as a light weight timber construction.
The German Embassy and other sponsors and donors was generously funded the project.
Currently, a group of students from the GUC Architecture and Urban Design Program together with Cairo University Water and Environmental Sciences are designing and with the community’s consent hoping to build the missing compost toilets.
DesignBuild Studio Cairo
Principal: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Redeker
Team: Ibrahim Samy, Carla Schwarz, Leonie Weber
Project Team
BaldiLab: Barbara Pampe, Dr. Vittoria Capresi
CoCoon, TU Berlin: Ursula Hartig, Simon Colwill, Dipl.-Ing. Nina Pawlicki
GUC proffessional support: Dipl.-Ing Peter Blodau (landscape architect and artist) Assoc. Prof. Thomas Löffler, Assoc. Prof. Urs Walter, Prof. Dr. Mostafa Baraka, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mona Badr, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Amr Shaat, Eng. Wael Adam
Architorno, Italy: Alessandra Basile, Dr.Roberta Nicchia, Giuliana Sandulli
Dipl. -Ing Nils Ruf, (architect and carpenter) and Victor Maschke (carpenter and engineer)
Participating GUC Students
Norhan Ayman, Marwa Sayed, Magui Beshay, Ahmed Hammad, Hana Hossam, Yomna Hossam, Alaa Gamal, Henar El-Kheshen, Farah Abdel-Latif, Habiba Abdel-Kader, Dalia Kassem, Ramy El-Magdoub, Marwan Magdy, Yasmin Mardini, Ahmed Morsy, Mirna Nagy, Omar El-Nawawy, Lama Abdel-Rahman, Theodora Ramzy, Loay Saad-El-Din, Ingy Salah, Fatma El-Sayed, Nader Sedky, Dorreya Abdel-Shal
Participating Exchange Students
Iman Charara, TU Berlin, Jasmin Enan, TU Darmstadt; André Korfe, HS Augsburg; Ralf Lösch, HS Augsburg
All Picture Credits: Design Build Studio Cairo
