Environmental Design: A point of View

Megawra Lecture and workshop

Lecture (open to all) and workshop (By registration on Monday and free to Megawra members)

Run by Mahmoud Abdrabboh

This event consists of the two activities as follows:

1. Environmental design – a point of view
A lecture open to all (Monday 23 April, 19:00 – 21:00) in which Mahmoud M. AbdRabboh details the principles of designing a building that is environmentally friendly from inside out; i.e. not by designing a generic building then sticking on some additions (skin – pv cells – etc.) to make it sustainable, but by forming its spaces and forms so that the result is an authentic Egyptian or Arab building that is both inherently green and contextual.

Participants will register for the workshop after the lecture.

2. Principles and applications of Environmental Design
A one day workshop by registration and free to Megawra members (Saturday 28 April, 10:00 – 17:00) in which these principles are used to develop participants’ designs.
a. Participants will bring with them drawings of buildings they have designed or are currently working on.
b. In what is called a Jackdaw sessions, they will swap designs with each participant working on someone else’s building to propose solutions that enhance its sustainability. The idea is to introduce a fresh eye with a fresh approach to the design process in order to get a richer more original result.
c. Mahmood helps the process along, then runs a final critic (to which you may invite visitors) in which the proposed alterations are honestly assessed and discussed.

Mahmoud M. AbdRabboh is the principle of AbdRabboh-s Design House which he founded in 2009. He received a degree in Environmental Architecture Branch from the High Institute Of Architecture In Egypt where he now teaches environmental design. In 2006, he won 2nd prize in a competition organized by the city of Fez in Morocco for the rehabilitation of Bab Mahtouk into an art gallery. His architectural practice is run along principles of environmental design that he has developed and that he employs in projects in Egypt, the Middle East, Malaysia and Spain where his firm works individually or in international and local partnerships. He also works in interior, furniture and product design.

For more information:
http://abdrabbohs.wix.com/e#!about
http://megawra.org/

The event is in Arabic