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Alef Bookstores launched its second branch inside the campus of Ain Shams University college of law. The small book outlet, designed by CONTRAST Designs, is a continuation of the collaboration with alef bookstores team and an extension to the design ideas and concepts that distinguish alef.
In the ASU branch, we worked extensively with the idea of treating the space as a 3d geometrical volume. Axis of movement, lines of sight, and organization of display units all follow a clear geometrically balanced heirarchy.
Project: Alef Bookstores Ain Shams University
Client: Alef Bookstores
Construction Completed: December 2009
Team:
Kareem Hammouda
Mazin A.Karim
Tamer Nader
Marwa Gamal
Contrast Designs partner Mazin A. Karim was invited for a guest lecture at the International University of Sarajevo. The lecture titled 'Contested Situations / Opposed Realities' briefly exposed realities about contemporary architecture and urban design in Egypt, and Cairo in specific. This was followed by related student work from the Arab Academy of Science and Technology (AAST), and from Contrast Studio.
Contrast Designs partner Mazin A.Karim was invited as guest critic for midterm reviews at the International University of Sarajevo, in Bosnia. The reviews included undergraduate 2nd year students design studio projects.
Contrast Studio partner and co-founder Mazin A.Karim was invited as a jury member for the 'school of the future' competition for Magaz magazine. The jury met over 2 days discussing and selecting 3 winning projects.
The jury also included Johannes Kister (Germany), Daniel Dendra (Germany), Farouk Al-Gohary (Cairo), Ayman Wanas (Cairo), Aly Gabr (Cairo), Tarek Naga (LA & Cairo), Ahmed Mito (Cairo).
A group of 30 students from the HTW Chur in Switzerland visited Contrast Studio last week with their professors Daniel Walser and Placido Perez. They were given a quick brief of our studio space and previous projects by studio partner Kareem Nabil. Then discussions went on between the swiss students and our own team.
Many thanks to the HTW Chur studio and to our own studio team (Marwa, Nermeen, Meral & Karim) for organizing this event.
Earlier this year Contrast teamed up with EGI for the competition to design the new Nasser Museum in Cairo.
The ministry of culture announced the winners recently...
http://gem.gov.eg/gamal_abd-nasser/index2.htmUnfortunately our scheme was not selected as one of the winners, but was selected as one of the finalists. Finalists projects including our proposal are on show till the 15th of October at the GEM site.
Here are some images of our scheme.
Here is a sneak preview of our Screen Table prototype.
