Aswan SUSTAINABLE CITY
2018
Student
Designer
Illinois Institute of Technology
CTBUH Traveling Studio - Sydney 2018
Looking to answer to the extreme climates humans might face, we were tasked to design a city within the desert. After analyzing arid climates globally we selected a site on a dried branch of the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt.
Learning from the area’s geography, we started with an underground network of pathways with shading towers to generate energy. This evolved to curved towers to fight wind storms, collect water, generate energy, and cast shadows to cool the ground below and allow for light farming.
Partner: Amr Mohsen
Desert types and major cities within them
Final site factors
Initial iteration with shading structures
Water is the site’s largest hurdle, thus we studied how various communities deal with this issue.
The structure’s height would help capture water droplets like its is done in Chile, generate wind power, and use that hot air to create condensation to be filtered like in the UAE.
Technology diagrams
Iteration models of revised design with curved tower communities
Large interconnected community buildings
Separate interconnected building communities
Building for iterations
Folding shading facade diagram