DesignWatch Video PHILIPS PASSAGEWAYYear: 2015 Location: Downtown Cairo Client: DEDI, CKU Scope: Research, Design and Implementation This project falls within the context of a broader research endeavor by CLUSTER, exploring the network of Cairo’s Downtown passages. These passageways offer an alternative framework for the development and revitalization of Downtown. Philips Passage is an L-shaped space…
MappingCAIRO D-TOURYear: 2014 Location: Downtown, Cairo Client: Al-Ismaelia for Real Estate Investment Scope: Mapping and Research Cairo D-Tour Downtown Walking Tours present a new experience of Downtown Cairo, exploring its multiple points of interests, spaces of memory and heritage sites. These walking tours pass through Cairo’s main streets and back alleys, revealing the historic significance…
DesignWatch Video KODAK PASSAGEWAYWon the Cairo Design Award 2017 for Landscape ProjectsYear: 2014 Location: Downtown Cairo Client: DEDI, CKU Scope: Research, Design and Implementation This project falls within the context of a broader research endeavor by CLUSTER, exploring the network of Cairo’s Downtown passages. These passageways offer an alternative framework for the development and revitalization…
ProgramsHASSN KHAN EXHIBITIONYear: 2014 Location: Kodak Passageway Client: D-CAF Scope: Curation, Design and Exhibition The Hassan Khan exhibition was sited in what had been unutilized storefronts alongside the Kodak passageway in Downtown Cairo, designed and curated by CLUSTER to present a procession of exhibition spaces, interjecting the artist’s oeuvre amidst the public and pedestrian activities…
PublicationsLEARNING FROM CAIROYear: 2013 Learning from Cairo (www.learningfromcairo.org), co-organized by CLUSTER and the American University in Cairo, was an international symposium that sought to engage the current political and urban transformation unfolding in Cairo as a critical context for examining relevant international case studies and best practices in areas ranging from housing, transportation, public space…
Digital PlatformsLEARNING FROM CAIROYear: 2013 Learning from Cairo, co-organized by CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research) and the American University in Cairo, was an international symposium that sought to engage the current political and urban transformation unfolding in Cairo as a critical context for examining relevant international case studies and best…
ProgramsWatch Video LEARNING FROM CAIRO: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES AND FUTURE VISIONS CONFERENCEYear: 2013 Location: AUC Tahrir Client: Ford Foundation Scope: Conference Learning from Cairo was a three-day international conference including plenary sessions, workshops, urban tours, website, and a publication. Learning for Cairo, co-organized by CLUSTER and the American University in Cairo, sought to engage the current…
DesignCIMATHEQUEYear: 2013 Location: Adly Street, Downtown Cairo Client: Cimatheque – Film center Scope: Renovation, Development and Implementation Cimatheque is an alternative film center dedicated to celebrating the diversity, beauty and power of film from the region and beyond. Cimatheque is located in Downtown Cairo, in an important historical building with pronounced Art Deco features. In…
DesignDOUM CULTURE HOUSEYear: 2012 Location: Abdeen, Cairo Client: Doum Culture Foundation Scope: Renovation and Development (Concept) As an emerging cultural foundation promoting critical thinking and literary culture, DOUM Foundation was interested in finding a location Downtown within the historical context to be re-modelled to the needs and programs of its mandate. The chosen site is…
DesignCINEMA RIALTOYear: 2012 Location: Al-Fajjala, Cairo Client: Natik Awayez and Linnea Carlsson Scope: Renovation and Development (Concept) Rialto Cinema represents the peak of the film industry in Egypt in the 1930s and 40s and is located in al-Fajjala, which in the twentieth century was a middle class, culturally vibrant and ethnically mixed district. With the…