Governmental City

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Governmental City

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Commercial › Office
Cultural › Gallery Hall/Theater Cultural Center
Government + Health › City Hall
Landscape + Planning › Public Park

A governmental city as a change(transformation) experienceThe concept: Most attempts to change an existing state weather was it political or social or economical focuses on the desired results regardless the process throughout which that change comes from. this mostly results in faliure beacuse the process is the important part where the experience takes place giving the powerful motive to change.this was the key starting point in the project.the idea was to give the users of the project a memorable experience motivating them to change and acting as a catalyst to work for a better future.this was achieved through out the different levels and layers of the project.the design borrowed the analogy from the animation andcinematography field. the main principals of the animationproduction is that a little tranformation bit by bit (frame by frame) gives a continuous dynamic motion and the other principal is that when a critical change in motion takes place a keyframe exists acting as a transformation pivot between the two different motions.this was applied on the urban form where the four mainnodes represents the main keyframes of the transformationprocess where critical change takes place. their forms and facades changes dramatically. the secondary nodes represents the other principle where a little bit by bitchange takes place on the facades and the masses that the user can realise. the levels on which the tranformation occurs:function: simply the functions tends to be more public related towards the end inducing public services and functions decreasing the gap between the community and the authority and re-prioritising the needs and putting the proper order out where the community is the power where the whole authority concept revolves around. urban planning:3 symbolic shapes representing the 3 elements of society(community,authority and auxilary forces like bussiness,media and foreign pressure) were sketched representing the behaviour of each element. those 3 shapes are lofted together giving a transformatory grid creating the city tissue and fusing at their center representing the fusion between those elements by sewing the cracks between them. they fuse into an oasis rather than an important building representing the priority of the public.urban form:a four steps transformation takes place in the form:1.analysis and disintegration: where the first step to change is to analyse the existing state and demassify its elements to little fractals in order to understand it. a cuboidal form was started and a pixel like subtrctions starts to take place representing the analysis and demassification.also free members projecting in different directions represents the existing system mainframe which is inefficient and not useful.2.crystalyine phase: this phase represents putting the new mainframe and skeleton but still it comes out distorted.that was represented by the bold skelton of the mass. also the behavior of the community is crystal shaped because itsnon- compatable with the new frame.3.smoothing-out phase: this phase represents smoothing the rough edges where the gap between the community and authority decreases but still they are not hundred percent compatable and this appeares in the skin that doesn't completely wraps the mass, some times coinciding and sometimes departing.4.dynamic organic phase: in this phase both community and authority overlaps and becomes one homogenous body resembeling the perfect natural harmony that doesn't exist except in nature. -between those main key frames a bit by bit change on the buildings facing the secondary nodes takes place linking those distinct keyframes with each other.

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Amr Sobhy

Architect, Planner & Urban designer

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Governmental City

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