Agri-Urban Metropolis
The Kafr Ghatati Pilot
Through the last few decades, Urban Expansion has continued to take over the agricultural lands without any means of compensation for the lost green footprint. Shall this pattern continue, agricultural lands in Egypt would be under eminent threat.
Realizing that the expansion cannot be stopped, the project explores means to control the expansion, and look into ways with which the lost green lands can be compensated.
In the metropolitan context, the urban areas and agricultural lands are separated. The design aims to reintegrate both entities in a coherent and complementary environment. The starting point was the traces of the canal network, used previously to water the agricultural lands in the area, which was used as a guide for the proposed structures.
The structures aim to host both green and built. They should create an incentive for settlers to take home in the newly built structures which would host most necessary functions.
The intersection point would act as the starting nodes for the structures and they would continue to grow along the canal network following the rates of population growth. The area encompassed between the canals and the structures acts as a social space which can host various activities and markets.
Illustration of a fully utilized section of the structures: including residential, commercial, educational and agricultural functions.
Team Members: Asmaa Ehab, Linah Nasser, Shereen Mohamed
