Team n° 21
Egypt

Green Nexus

Project description

Our project “Green Nexus” is responding to the local identity and centered around cultural context through an efficient functional, vibrant, and adaptive concept. It ensures seamless connectivity between the old and new sites while prioritizing sustainability and livability through environmentally responsible construction methods and elements. The concept of our project is articulated as follows:
We fuse Chimilin’s modular heritage grid with Villefontaine’s organic flexibility.

University
Cairo University
City
Giza
Country
Egypt

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Students team members

Shahd Dergham
Sandy Youssef
Fatma Ragab

Teacher

Dr Mohsen Aboulnaga

Dr Aboulnaga has 37 years of experience in high-level government and consultancy in sustainable development, sustainable cities, climate change, and cultural sustainability; holds PhD (University of Leeds, UK); MSc & BSc (Cairo University); a Professor of Sustainable Built Environments, Cairo University; expert at DG-NEAR ENPI-South; Associate member, ESDN Association; Expert, UNESCO IPL; board member of WREC/WREN; invited speaker (440 conferences); 250 publications; member UrbanFarm Int’l Jury (Bologna); author of 4 books (Springer); and supervised Students’ Contexts, e.g., Saint-Gobain.