Short-listed project Caramel Shore Traveller’s Room

Project Description.

A sustainable cabin for eco-tourism that addresses five-zero targets: zero energy, zero, waste, zero emissions, zero indoor pollutants, and zero environmental impact. The cabin provides a pleasant, convenient, and cozy warm sanctuary for travelers to enjoy while doing no harm to the environment.

 

Short-listed project Mega Dunes Eco Lodge International

Project Description.

Our concept is to keep this primitive virginal land with minimum man intervention. The existing lodge should be in harmony with the existing context. Nothing should be observed as disturbing or odd both on land and from the sky.

The target is when this lodge is dissembled, the place and its creations can return to their primary state where nothing is observed or disturbed by any man-made creations.

During the day, the lodge looks like the existing dunes. During the night, it’s a sparkling galaxy settled on land!

An Aerodynamic approach

The aerodynamic and kinematic studies that explains the dunes formation has inspired the mass, form, and morphology of our units’ design.

Crescent-shaped dunes that propagates with wind direction have a wave-like behavior. Our design aims at achieving the same wave-like theme that undulates in harmony with the existing natural context.

Building Materials

The Double-glazing sand-filled panels affords a very good thermal insulation. The principle behind double-glazing is that by enclosing a cavity of dry sand between two sheets of glass, heat exchange by convection is reduced and the low thermal conductivity of the air limits heat loss by conduction.

Using this composite section is the first step towards providing thermal comfort inside the units and promote the use of sustainable air conditioning systems.

 

 

 

“Touch n Go” implies an approach that adds a fine touch to the historic property to meet the continuing and changing uses while retaining its historic character.
The design solution starts with studying the past and present simultaneously. The main objective was to restore the building in a way that respects and harmonizes with the live example of the foreign elite architecture that existed in the 19th and 20th century cosmopolitan Cairo.
The proposed design aims at creating a strong dialogue between the building and its urban surroundings through “Al Khazendar” square plaza. The plaza design promotes pedestrian activity and provide a vibrant commercial, recreational, and cultural axis.