COQUI MALACHOWSKA COQUI

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GERMAN EMBASSY CAIRO

Out­side the embas­sy

Loca­ti­on: Cai­ro, Egypt
Cli­ent
: Fede­ral Office for Buil­ding and Regio­nal Plan­ning, Berlin/Bonn
Com­pe­ti­ti­on: 2nd Pri­ze (open rea­liza­ti­on com­pe­ti­ti­on, I. pha­se: 105 par­ti­ci­pan­ts, II. pha­se: 13 par­ti­ci­pan­ts)
Year: 2014
Area: 3.400 m²
Archi­tec­tu­re: Bernd Bess Archi­tek­ten, Ber­lin

The spe­cial fea­ture of the site of the Ger­man Embas­sy in Cai­ro is the lar­ge gar­den with its magni­fi­cent old trees and its pri­vi­le­ged, inner-city loca­ti­on bet­ween the Nile, the Aqua­ri­um and Gezi­ra Park in the Zama­lek dis­trict. In terms of urban plan­ning, the design is based on the vil­la struc­tu­re of the ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry and crea­tes two almost equal­ly lar­ge struc­tures in the lar­ge con­ti­guous gar­den: the chan­cel­lery and the resi­dence. Spe­cial empha­sis is pla­ced on the spa­ti­al expe­ri­ence of the over­all com­plex. The span­ning tree popu­la­ti­on of the pro­per­ty forms the con­nec­ting frame­work. This crea­tes a dif­fe­ren­tia­ted struc­tu­re of out­door spaces with high spa­ti­al qua­li­ties. The out­door spaces are for­med by the fore­court (cen­tral ele­ment with water sur­face), the resi­dence gar­den (flowing and depth-gra­ded), the chan­cel­lery gar­den (clear geo­me­try and spa­ti­al enclo­sure) and the gar­den cour­ty­ard, Visa­stel­le (green exten­si­on of the wai­ting area into the open).

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