Rawabet

Rawabet is a family park and counseling center capitalizing on inner connections between family members through nature. Rawabet helps in solving family disintegration crisis. The main idea of the project arises from the concept of connections and how the project needs to be connecting different aspects together internally and externally.

There are two grids in this project: Al-Warraq linear grid and the curvilinear free form grid. Project’s form is affected by these two grids in 2D and 3D.

Merging between the two grids shows how we can get affected by the current situation and refine it to a new modern style to let the people integrate with it easily.

The project consists of three main parts: 1- The family counseling center part heals people emotionally and solves the psychological part of how people should deal with each other.

2- Family Park is the entertainment zone and the most fun part that let people engage together and know each other more while they’re trying new experiences together.

3- Organizational zone solves the missing part as it solves the physical problem between users if the problem is not emotional. Like the people who suffer from lack of income that led them to work a lot of working hours that prevent them from family integration, at that situation the users will need an organization that will provide them better job with better income.  Marriage and divorce institute has offices here as well and more types of needed services organizations.

The two different grids used are really obvious in the main plan and how they’re merged together.

The project is special with its specified use of materials that changes through the whole project. Bricks and concrete are used in the side next to the street next Al-Warraq buildings but in refined shapes. As we go in the Nile direction, more modern materials are used such as the metalic louvers, frame trusses and curtain walls for the best quality of view.

The part of the project next to the street is more linear and with similar materials but it’s different on the Nile side to be facing the proposed design for Al-Warraq by 2050.

Integrated green areas are found strongly in the project with various activities to attract the users to interact with the project in the beginning.

The thick slabs are used for inverted waffle slabs to be suitable with green roofs. Exposed slab thickness is taken from the slums’ identity as slabs are visible.