RE-RISE

AbdelRahman Badawy

Project idea

The project is a hybrid Social Development and Material Innovation Center that uses architecture as a catalyst to transform waste from an informal daily burden into a visible cycle of research, production, education, and public awareness. By connecting material receiving, sorting, laboratories, workshops, exhibition spaces, and community facilities, the project reorganizes the existing recycling culture of Manshiyat Naser into a safer, more productive, and socially empowering environment.

Project description

The project is a Social Development and Material Innovation Center located in Manshiyat Naser, Cairo, designed to connect the community’s existing recycling culture with research, education, production, and public awareness. It includes material receiving and sorting areas, research laboratories, workshops, educational spaces, exhibition zones, community facilities, and observation towers, creating a complete journey where waste is transformed into knowledge, products, and social value.

Technical information

The project covers a total area of 21,000 m² and is organized as a hybrid facility combining research, education, workshops, public exhibition, community spaces, and material-processing zones. Structurally, it uses a combination of steel frames, trusses, concrete slabs, container modules, glass façades, brick screens, tensile shading systems, and terraced landscape retaining walls, with separated circulation for visitors, researchers, workers, services, and material movement. The project also provides 262 parking spaces, including 200 underground spaces and 62 surface spaces, with environmental strategies such as natural ventilation, shading, green terraces, material reuse, and cliff integration.

Documentation

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