Civil Engineering and Architecture Vol. 9(3), pp. 828 - 835
DOI: 10.13189/cea.2021.090324
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Design-Build Approaches with Building's Users in Local School Case Study in Cairo, Egypt

Ibrahim Samy Sayed Saleh ^1,*, Mostafa Refaat Ahmed Ismail ², Ahmed Atef Eldesouky Faggal ², Alaa Adel Mahmoud Al-shareef ^3
1 Architecture and Urban Design Program, German University in Cairo, 11511, Cairo, Egypt
² Department of Architectural Engineering, Ain Shams University, 11566, Cairo, Egypt
³ Department of Architectural Engineering, Cairo University, 12613, Cairo, Egypt

ABSTRACT

A design build studio approach is a design process that involves the users, local community, and professionals in the entire development of a project - from the conceptual ideas generation to the implementation phase. This paper aims at analyzing techniques of involving the school students directly in the process of improving their school built elements performance – with focus on social spaces such as playgrounds - from the design and planning phases to the implementation phase. The main goal is to develop a model to involve the students in the process of realization, which includes not only the satisfaction achieved at the end, but also the problems, difficulties, and compromises that have to be faced in the process. The case study for testing the design - build techniques with building's users and local community is Shagaret el Dorr School in Ibn Tulun district. The paper will test the efficiency of physical model technique for filtering and analyzing the spatial qualities and intended activities from the children's models and eventually transform these collected data and user's input into design proposals to be built. A survey was done to assess the process and results of the case study and sent to project's participants and professional architects. The results of the survey will be part of holistic criteria for school design participatory process. The end result will be a matrix of design build techniques and guidelines for working with users and community (phase 01), transferring into designs (phase 02), and building (phase 03).

KEYWORDS
Design-Build, Playgrounds, School Architecture, Community Based Design, Techniques of Participation

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[1] Ibrahim Samy Sayed Saleh , Mostafa Refaat Ahmed Ismail , Ahmed Atef Eldesouky Faggal , Alaa Adel Mahmoud Al-shareef , "Design-Build Approaches with Building's Users in Local School Case Study in Cairo, Egypt," Civil Engineering and Architecture, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 828 - 835, 2021. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2021.090324.

(b). APA Format:
Ibrahim Samy Sayed Saleh , Mostafa Refaat Ahmed Ismail , Ahmed Atef Eldesouky Faggal , Alaa Adel Mahmoud Al-shareef (2021). Design-Build Approaches with Building's Users in Local School Case Study in Cairo, Egypt. Civil Engineering and Architecture, 9(3), 828 - 835. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2021.090324.