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Marwa Khalil is a professor of architecture and urban design in the Department of Architectural Engineering and Environmental Design at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt. Her research interests include, environment-behavior studies (EBS), community design and participatory approaches, design research and architectural education. Marwa is also a licensed practicing architect in Egypt and has previously worked for various architectural firms in Cairo.
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The design of healthcare facilities has a significant impact on multiple patients' outcomes, particularly for those undergoing cancer treatment. This paper aims to investigate the Healing Built Environment (HBE) principles and characteristics that influence cancer outpatients’ satisfaction in healthcare facilities. The research adapted the Environm...
Over the last few decades, the concept of combining education and entertainment has become increasingly popular. Edutainment (education and entertainment) environments started appearing in 1970 and have expanded, ever since, across the globe. This study seeks to explore the perception of guardians towards the edutainment experience and its impact o...
Independent mobility has a positive impact on children’s cognitive, physical, and social development. Many factors affect how children utilize spaces surrounding their homes. The characteristics of both the physical and the social environments are important influencing factors. The aim of this study was to explore children’s independent mobility an...
Design has long focused on the visual sense, with the neglect of other human senses. Currently, there is a growing body of literature that presents how perception is actually multi-sensory in nature. The visually impaired and blind rely on their other senses which make them appreciate other spatial qualities. The aim of the study is to understand h...
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This paper questions the change in patterns of use of the balcony during lockdown. It investigates whether residents, specifically of apartment buildings in Cairo, used their balconies more frequently or for different activities during the lockdown.
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The study was conducted through a mixed methods approach. More...
Reviewing the literature indicates a lack of studies that explicitly describe the dynamics of design-knowledge construction in architectural pedagogy. Accordingly, this study attempts to empirically explore the process of constructing design-knowledge within a freshman architectural-design studio in the Egyptian context. In the spring 2020 semester...
In architecture education, addressing idea generation techniques and creative problem solving skills has always been important for creativity in architectural design. Students are always looking for structured approaches to come up with novel ideas that help them in solving their challenges, especially architectural design problems. Such problems a...
Previous research measuring residential satisfaction assessed its three domains namely housing unit, neighborhood, and social environment. The assessment process used surveys with Likert scale, measuring attributes selected by the researchers with no input from the residents. This research aimed to revisit these three domains by trying to extract t...
Ezbet El-Haggana, in Cairo, is an informal settlement on a desert state-owned land. It is currently surrounded by formal lands, making expansion impossible. Maps of Ezbet El-Haggana of 2006 and 2017 show an enormous urban transformation within the informal land. The purpose of this paper is to document and analyze the residential typologies to trac...
The issue of quality of life has been discussed by many theorists and philosophers since ancient times relating it to many aspects of life, but the scientific research on quality of life started being evident from the 1970s, especially with the first publications of the social indicators research journal. Yet, there is still no concrete and agreed-...
Architecture has long focused on the visual sense with the neglect of other human senses. However, due to the influence of phenomenological writings, there is now a growing notion that our perception of the world is actually multisensory in nature, involving all our senses. By engaging all the senses, the built environment can help provide users wi...
Architectural engineering students are constantly dealing with ill-defined and tangled design problems. Many scholars accentuated the importance of creative thinking in tackling such wicked and complex problems. Accordingly, getting engaged in an ill-defined problem solving process requires specific personality traits that are often critical to cre...
Architecture has long focused on the visual sense with the neglect of other human senses. However, due to the influence of phenomenological writings, there is now a growing notion that our perception of the world around us is actually multi-sensory in nature, involving all our senses. By engaging all the senses, the built environment can help provi...
The issue of quality of life has been discussed by many theorists and philosophers since ancient times relating it to many aspects of life, but the scientific research on quality of life started being evident from the 1970s, especially with the first publications of the social indicators research journal. Yet, there is still no concrete and agreed...
The paper addresses the issue of how residual spaces are intervened upon through formal and informal processes. It argues that a profound understanding for the dynamics of informal interventions, denoted by appropriation, could enhance the performance of their formal peers. Adopting a qualitative approach, the paper departs from Lefebvre's unitary...
Applying landscapes in healthcare facilities is considered a natural way to reduce stress, tension, fatigue, pain, sadness, depression and anxiety. It increases positive mood and encourages human interactions with nature. Well-designed landscapes in healthcare facilities improve its users' health. It makes them get better physiologically and psycho...
This paper presents a methodology that grounds the understanding of consumerist iconic architecture, in relation to Cairo-Egypt. This term is proposed to connect the different disciplines of sociology, architecture, and urban studies. It relies on the relation between the dominant culture of consumerism, and iconic architecture practice. Most resea...
This paper presents a methodology that grounds the understanding of consumerist iconic architecture, in relation to Cairo-Egypt. This term is proposed to connect the different disciplines of sociology, architecture, and urban studies. It relies on the relation between the dominant culture of consumerism, and iconic architecture practice. Most resea...
Nasr City is a district in Cairo, planned with a specific urban density, but throughout time, its density changed from what was originally planned. Building violations in Nasr City are well mentioned in the literature, however there’s a lack in studies that trace the change in physical density and shed light on the period of change. Accordingly, th...
Children’s everyday life takes place in physical spaces, which are usually based on adults’ vision of childhood needs. Previous studies of children’s everyday life focused on designed play spaces while free play occur in every possible spot; most of which are incidental spaces. Understanding how and where children actually play and what parts of th...
The research explores the sense of place around mosques in historic Cairo. Throughout the year makeovers take place around iconic mosques in Historic Cairo. This paper explore the features that play a role in the transformations that take place in al-Husayn square. The square’s physical form appears as a rigid space. People actions, the occupation...
Designing children-friendly landscapes helps in developing balanced, healthy and creative upcoming generations. However, many children’s outdoor spaces are mostly equipped with traditional play structures that serve their physical development, while having the least amount of elements that target other types, such as their cognitive development. Th...
The empirical study presented in this article explores the impact of globalization on architecture. More specifically, through an investigation of coffeehouses in Cairo, the study examines how architecture and interior design are used to express globalization and the globalized lifestyle associated with it. The preliminary phase of the study confir...
Land value can be defined as a product where supply and demand theory is applied. Land valuation depends upon the capability of development to be utilized in the best use and consequently the highest return. Waterfronts’ parcels of land are of high land value being a strategic valuable urban resource for a city. However, according to a recent study...
This paper aims to investigate the potential of revitalizing urban residual spaces and turning them into viable open spaces, as a mean to redress the deficiency of open spaces in congested cities.
While the population in mega cities continuously increases over a fixed plot of land, the inhabitants' need for open space correspondingly increases and...
The pace of recent transformations in the urban fabric of Egyptian cities caused major changes in the distinctive image of most of their districts. The investigation presented in this article is part of a larger study that examines this on-going phenomenon in El-Zamalek district of Cairo - a historic settlement that was once the fashionable neighbo...
