Mohamed EL-Araby
Architecture Portfolio
The Urban Spree
Satwa Redevelopment Project
Satwa as it exists in its current situation is facing a lot of problems when it comes to its efficiency for the users and the quality of living, but what makes it a valuable area, is its historical relevance to the locals and the people who had been living and working there for a long time. It houses a number of old traditional vernacular structures that Dubai is feeling nostalgic towards, and this is why in this project, in addition to trying to solve the existing issues through proposing new solutions, our aim is to preserve sensitive parts of the existing buildings, and celebrate the cultural part of them, as well as keeping some of the newly built structures as a compensation for the users. The most addressed problems in the project are the loaded car congestion existing on site heavily, in which our proposal was to create a fast transit movement network, not only for cars, but also designated lanes for buses, cyclers, and pedestrians.
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Relicular
Religious + Secular
The Design of this Mixed use development is based on the way old cities were designed in the Islamic states. Where the designer started with the mosque making it the heart the of the project. Then creating the developments around it. In this project is a modern take on this way of design. The design started with a grid taken from the surrounding buildings from Mankhoul, Karama and Al Raffa, were the development belongs. Overlaying on top of it another grid derived from the Qibla Direction (Mecca direction), which is were Muslims face when they Pray. The way the development is designed is to help people disperse to and from the mosque from all the sides of it and for the minaret to be visible from all directions making it the focal point of the whole development.
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