“Egypt is not a country; it is a river.” (Brandi, 1963); the Nile, the main character of the
NiLab research and design laboratory developed for the Egypt Pavilion at the 18th International
Architecture Exhibition, the Venice Biennale.
As the primary driver of imagination and working together in architecture, water represents
the basic choices accompanying the entire journey presented in this volume
through six Nile landscapes – Natura, Agro, Urbe, Infrastructure, Industry, and Archaeology.
Along them, eighteen project intervention areas have been selected as the scene of
an international encounter between Egypt, African populations, and the planet.
Together with the Faculty of Engineering of the Ain-Shams University of Cairo (Egypt)
and the dArTe Department of the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria (Italy), 24
international Universities have been invited to build the NiLab, where students, teachers,
and young researchers have engaged in concrete design practice to discuss the possible
scenarios of a macro-theme: the Nile, an emblematic opportunity to reflect on the
theme of water, representative of the planet Earth’s rivers, in the wider context of climate
change.
NiLab’s six landscapes are proposed as “mixture” spaces (Coccia, 2016) where to find
overlapping and/or disappeared local cultures and interrupted or deconstructed identities.
These places produce theoretical and practical questions and doubts, thus becoming
fields of experimentation on the project’s ontology. It is a critical tool for the current
state and, simultaneously, a territory of ideas for the future.
Project is therefore engaged as research rather than as a solution to a practical question,
aimed at understanding the meaning of the knowledge of the places, even at a theoretical
level, the more philosophical boundaries of the topics covered, the relationship
between disciplinarity, and the synthesis of knowledge.


a cura di Marina Tornatora, Ottavio Amaro, Ahmed Sami Abd Elrahman, Moataz Samir
NiLab
Nile as Laboratory
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isbn 9788862429320
collana Alleli | Research
numero 180
edizione corrente 3 / 2024
lingua Inglese
formato 23x23cm
pagine 316
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Marina Tornatora. Architect, associate professor in Architectural Design at the Department of Architecture and Terri- tory – dArTe – within the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria. She is a member of the Doctorate Board and responsible for international relations....

Marina Tornatora. Architect, associate professor in Architectural Design at the Department of Architecture and Terri- tory – dArTe – within the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria. She is a member of the Doctorate Board and responsible for international relations. She coordinates the Double Degree Program with the Ain Shams University from Cairo, and she became Visiting Professor at the London Metropolitan University (2019). The focus of her theoretical, design and teaching activities is the relationships between city, landscape and architecture, that are evident in her numerous publications, curated ex- hibitions, as well as the interventions in workshops and conferences developed also within the Re- search Laboratory Landscape_inProgress (LL_inP) founded together with Ottavio Amaro in 2014.
Some of her recent publications: DESTRATIFICATION ’29 ’65 ’sk14 ‘2020, 16th Biennale di Vene- zia 2018; 99FILES, Brutalism Skopje 2019; H2O_ Scapes. Agro Urbe Nature; Learning from Pavilion.

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Ottavio Amaro. Associate professor in Architectural and Urban Composition at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, (Italy) – dArTe Department and member of the PHD course in Architecture. Since 2014 he is a scientific coordinator with Marina Tornatora of the research lab...

Ottavio Amaro. Associate professor in Architectural and Urban Composition at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, (Italy) – dArTe Department and member of the PHD course in Architecture. Since 2014 he is a scientific coordinator with Marina Tornatora of the research laboratory Landscape_in Progress (LL_ inP), involving research and projects on Lanscapes next to come.
He has carried out also research at the Le Corbusier Fondation in Paris.
His projects and drawings have been exposed in various exhibitions: Architetti italiani under 50(Italian architects under 50) – Milano Triennale, 2005; Progetto sud – Città di Pietra, 10th Biennale di Vene- zia, 2006; ITALY IS NOW – Tokyo, 2011; Macedonian pavilion – 16th La Biennale di Venezia, 2018.
In 1989 he was awarded the prize For the theory, image and study of utopia.

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Ahmed Sami Abd Elrahman. Egyptian professor and practitioner, Unit Head of Architecture Program at Faculty of Engineering – Ain Shams University, Cairo. He is also the Coordinator of Double Degree with Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria – Department Architecture ...

Ahmed Sami Abd Elrahman. Egyptian professor and practitioner, Unit Head of Architecture Program at Faculty of Engineering – Ain Shams University, Cairo. He is also the Coordinator of Double Degree with Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria – Department Architecture and Territory, Italy & Faculty of Engineering – Ain Shams University, Egypt. Ahmed is a founding partner of Design & Build Studio (DBS) in Cairo, he has experience in sustainable development with particular em- phasis on large scale residential projects, waterfront development, local development, coastal planning, and public participation. He was a great experience in Egypt, Africa, and Gulf area, in addition to his practical experience through his work with international entities such as World Bank, UNDP and UN-HABITAT.
He is a member of the editorial technical office of ASEJ: Ain Shams Engineering Journal – Elsevier. He is the author and co-editor of three books and book chapters. He also has many research papers published in the international peer-reviewed press.

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Moataz Samir. Senior member of the research Laboratory Landscape_inProgress (LL_inP) at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria (Italy), team member of the Double Degree Program between Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria and Ain Shams University in Cairo. He has several e...

Moataz Samir. Senior member of the research Laboratory Landscape_inProgress (LL_inP) at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria (Italy), team member of the Double Degree Program between Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria and Ain Shams University in Cairo. He has several experiences in teaching with various universities such as Mediterranea University, Politecnico di Milano, German University in Cairo and GUC Berlin campus. He is a professor of design studio, for the Double Degree program, at Ain Shams University in Cairo and professor of design at Coventry University in Cairo. Beside, his professional experience has been characterized by collaboration with national and international architecture studios, in which it allowed him to work on various scales [Macro, Miso, Micro]. His approach is focusing on the regeneration of the Mediterranean Cities through an alternative socio-spatial scenario that outline a paradigm of urban decomposition and re-composition of the contemporary cities where memory, space and time are the tools for interpretation and intervention.

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