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Reem Cherif Fawzi

Cairo, Egypt
Reem Cherif is an architect and urban planner who have five years’ experience in practicing spatial design and planning at several firms in Cairo, Egypt. She is currently pursuing her master's degree from Cairo university in Urban design and community planning. Reem's research interest is focusing on inclusive cities and spatial and environmental justice.

Call for ideas 2020

Met-Rahineh: Re-framing the scene


Interventions of water and food

Met-Rahineh: Re-framing the scene


Interventions of water and food
Exploring water and food process, and proposing sustainable interventions for building and street.
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  • Site-specific cases

Aside from the usual urban scene, this project proposes putting down the people into the frame, by helping them maintain a sustainable living with simple techniques. It examines how people can implement and manage solutions. Design of interventions are presented, yet the main concept is about how people are going to use and benefit from it, and at the next phase to manage it. After the first phase, they will be controlling the mechanism of food and water production as they are the ones who produce, distribute and consume. In last five decades, notable changes have occurred in the rural areas in Egypt, including the study area where people and spaces are subjected to marginalization from the state’s urban development plans. Hence, this project is filling the gap through observation of daily practices; ways of obtaining water and food, and investigating this process within the spatial context of streets and buildings. Then, it proposes sustainable intervention for domestic and public.


Met-Rahineh: Re-framing the scene


Interventions of water and food

Met-Rahineh: Re-framing the scene


Interventions of water and food
Exploring water and food process, and proposing sustainable interventions for building and street.
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

Aside from the usual urban scene, this project proposes putting down the people into the frame, by helping them maintain a sustainable living with simple techniques. It examines how people can implement and manage solutions. Design of interventions are presented, yet the main concept is about how people are going to use and benefit from it, and at the next phase to manage it. After the first phase, they will be controlling the mechanism of food and water production as they are the ones who produce, distribute and consume. In last five decades, notable changes have occurred in the rural areas in Egypt, including the study area where people and spaces are subjected to marginalization from the state’s urban development plans. Hence, this project is filling the gap through observation of daily practices; ways of obtaining water and food, and investigating this process within the spatial context of streets and buildings. Then, it proposes sustainable intervention for domestic and public.



Idea by

Reem Cherif Fawzi
Cairo
Egypt
Reem Cherif is an architect and urban planner who have five years’ experience in practicing spatial design and planning at several firms in Cairo, Egypt. She is currently pursuing her master's degree from Cairo university in Urban design and community planning. Reem's research interest is focusing on inclusive cities and spatial and environmental justice.