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Full-Text Articles in Architecture
Privacy Perceptions Transformation In Cairo’S Home Designs - A Case Study: Gated Communities, Yasmine Esmat
Privacy Perceptions Transformation In Cairo’S Home Designs - A Case Study: Gated Communities, Yasmine Esmat
Theses and Dissertations
The infrastructure of gated communities in Egypt’s New Cairo and 6th of October cities have become the new normal. The streets bordered by fences, walls, and the occasional gate, formed when two or more gated communities face each other, dominate the urban landscape today (Kostenwein, 2021). Nowadays, it is highly common to see billboards advertising new gated communities everywhere on the roads and bridges. Gated communities offer various privileges, and one of them is privacy. Taking Cairo city with its several gated communities as a case study, the research focuses on the transformation of privacy perception for Cairo’s home designs …
On The Balcony, Beyond “Balconearing”; Perception Of Cairene Women, Behind The Curtains., Rowida Magdy Al-Gebeily
On The Balcony, Beyond “Balconearing”; Perception Of Cairene Women, Behind The Curtains., Rowida Magdy Al-Gebeily
Theses and Dissertations
This study sheds light on the significance and role of threshold spaces as means of accomplishing sociocultural needs, restoration and wellbeing in the residential environment. Understanding the function and uses of these spaces allows us to appreciate their benefits that are often neglected. The research particularly focuses on the social dimension of one fundamental threshold space; the Cairene balcony. It is an integral space that provides a valuable connection to the outside, and its importance in the development of urban living is widely recognized. If carefully designed to meet the residents’ needs and demands, they can promote a better quality …
Reading A Chapel, Mariam Ayad Dr.
Reading A Chapel, Mariam Ayad Dr.
Sociology, Egyptology & Anthropology Department: Faculty Work
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Re-Figuring The Past: The Architecture Of The Funerary Chapel Of Amenirdis I At Medinet Habu: A Re-Assessment, Mariam Ayad Dr.
Re-Figuring The Past: The Architecture Of The Funerary Chapel Of Amenirdis I At Medinet Habu: A Re-Assessment, Mariam Ayad Dr.
Sociology, Egyptology & Anthropology Department: Faculty Work
The funerary chapel of Amenirdis at Medinet Habu forms an intriguing link in the development of ancient Egyptian architectural forms. Utilizing older architectural traditions and later ones, its architecture anticipates several features that later appear in Ptolemaic temples.