The Urban Form Lab is a service laboratory, and a Center for Urban critical and creative thinking, teaching, research and practice in Architecture, Urban Form and Urbanism. The lab was founded in 2021 and is based at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. The lab aims at engaging and collaborating with; undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academ
ic and professional partners, local communities, local authorities and international partners to address and investigate issues related to cities and urban areas. The lab seeks to; monitor, extrapolate, and reach better understanding of urban spaces, places and settings, and to propose appropriate solutions to urban problems through detailed analysis of its physical and non-physical contexts; together with the closely related historic, environmental and cultural aspects and influences. The lab seeks to undertake studies, formulate and develop; contextual and environmental, economic and socially sustainable proposals. In this regard, the lab adopts and deploys urban design and community design methodologies and approaches in addressing; research studies, projects, and urban issues, problems and challenges – this enables the lab to effectively contributing to and enhancing; urban design and community design knowledge and practices and to integrate research studies, projects, practice, and products, into architectural education and learning process, for the undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the Department, the Faculty and the University. Dr. Sahar Imam, Professor of Urban Design, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University
Assoc. Aliaa AlSadaty, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University
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Urban Form Lab,
Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University
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