Architecture

Aswan science and technology city

Nesma Khaled
AAST
Egypt

Project idea

Our future is digital, so creating a place where taking the lead in pushing the development of technology, innovation, and the digital economy is a necessary.
Objectives:
- Encourage and build the essential infrastructure needed to power the digital industry.
- Encourage the exploration of digital product and service testing, analysis, and experimental domains.
- Promote spending on innovation, technology, and digital infrastructure.
- Organize cooperation between the public, private, and educational domains.
The motherboard allows all the components in your computer to "talk" to each other, it the same for the project. It allows different users to communicate together and take the advantage of different skills to make the country develop. Our world depends on NETWORKS by its different version to make life continue, NETWORK helps in developing the world, the more NETWORK, the more development spread all over the world, and any NETWORK aims to close things together to achieve a specific goal. As result network is the concept of the project.

Project description

The project consists of an administration building with the main entrance, a training building for those who want to learn more about technology, two research building to cover the two main stages of creating a new technology application whether it's a software or a hardware application, accommodation, fabrication, recreational and exhibition buildings.
The concept is creating network of circulation of different users without overlapping between them other than in spaces they need to communicate such like recreational zone or exhibition. Vertical circulation elements are put in the intersection of horizontal circulation to make it as a node.

Technical information

The project is consisting of 8 buildings with narrow spaces between them to increase the velocity of air, Buildings are made of concrete column and slab to make them more affordable.
The column of buildings are also supporting the canopy to expand the network from the highest level in the project to the lowest level.
Wind towers supports the evaporative cooling strategy to make the plazas between building more comfortable for users to increase the social network.

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