Revitalization of Al-Mahmoudiya Canal
date. 2015
city. Alexandria
size. Urban planning project
The Project was done during my double degree master study program (IUSD) under the UEED module. The master program was from Stuttgart University and Ain Shams University. The project was designed by Namariq El-Rawi and Me concerned about solving the problem of the small existence of the water in Mahmoudiya canal by filtering the water in the surrounding warehouses and put it back in the canal and the surrounding wetlands to regrow plants as were before.
Potential of the Canal
The canal passes through different cities until it reaches Alexandria. It is neglected and used as wastewater and garbage collector, even though it has the potential of being revitalized through creating new system of wastewater treatment which will lead to the revival of the surrounding areas including Minet el Bassal district in Alexandria
THE PULSE EFFECT
Small-scale interventions must be done that can be considered a prototype replicated around the canal. There are many surrounding derelict buildings that can be adaptively reused as a wastewater and rainwater decentralized treatment stations.
CONCEPT
Through the accumulation of many factors, Al-Mahmoudia canal developed a awful „digestive system“ where the inputs do not meet the outputs; while the data are mainly diluted water from the Nile pollutants of wastewater and garbage coming from the factories, residential areas and the farms, the outputs are of harmful nature to the surrounding; ecologically the water unusable and the conventional wastewater treatments produces more gas emissions, economically there are no investments gained from the use of the canal, socially there are no activities held on the waterfront of the canal as it is used to be.
