The Sphinx Cairo Building, Fran Silvestre Arquitectos Egypt, New Egyptian Architecture Images

The Sphinx Cairo Building

30 Mar 2023

Architecture: Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, Valencia, Spain

The Sphinx Cairo Building

Location: Cairo, northern Egypt

The Sphinx Cairo Building, Egypt The Sphinx Cairo Building, Egypt

The Sphinx Cairo Building Design

The project is located on the northern coast of Egypt. Located a short distance from the Mediterranean, its configuration on two levels allows views from the upper part of the proposal. A single line less than 30 cm thick seeks to synthesize the traditional representation that symbolizes the Egyptian god of wisdom. The vertical element, with a variable section, allows the communication core to be housed while maintaining the expressiveness of the project.

The Sphinx Cairo Building, Egypt The Sphinx Cairo Building, Egypt

Part of the house is completely cantilevered, emerging from a vertical wall, apparently not thick enough. Jib cantilevers always require a solution to its two fundamental parts: the cantilever body itself, visible and apparent; and the vertical body or mast, from which the first starts.

The Sphinx Cairo Building, Fran Silvestre Arquitectos Egypt The Sphinx Cairo Building, Fran Silvestre Arquitectos Egypt

The cantilever body needs to be light. It is solved with a triangulated steel structure. In this way it can be built at ground level, with maximum precision and using precambers, to be finally hoisted into position once the wall-mast is finished. To improve balance, the counterweight of the opposite cantilever with additional mass in reinforced concrete is used.

The fundamental challenge is the vertical body, which hides the core of vertical communications. That core is responsible for ensuring the necessary rigidity and resistance so that the aloft house can emerge as a cantilever. In turn, the rest of the house balances the overturning moment of the vertical part.

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The lower part of the house contains the entire program, with the exception of the master bedroom, which is located on an upper level, as a kind of independent house. Some contemporary architecture references are taken up again, such as the floor plan of the Pirelli Tower where Gio Ponti achieves the optical effect that emphasizes the height of the building, whose same strategy, widely used in product design, is used to make the perception of the structure is that of a thin sheet of concrete.

This technique is used both in the floor plan and in the sections of the proposal. We have also always been fascinated by the ability to synthesize the classical tradition in the works of Andreu Alfaro, with his accurately materialized kuroi. We pursued this attitude to materialize the proposal. A project that seeks to synthesize part of the tradition of the place with a materialization that represents a constructive innovation.

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The Sphinx Cairo, Egypt – Building Information

THE SPHINX
EL CAIRO, EGIPTO

THE SPHINX
CAIRO, EGYPT

ARCHITECTURE: FRAN SILVESTRE ARQUITECTOS

INTERIOR DESIGN: ALFARO HOFMANN

PROJECT TEAM

Fran Silvestre | Principal in Charge
María Masià | Principal in Charge
Sevak Asatrián | Principal in Charge
Miguel Massa | Principal in Charge
Anna Alfanjarín | Principal in Charge
David Cirocchi | Principal in Charge

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: ESTRUCTURAS SINGULARES

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COLLABORATORS

Pablo Camarasa | Collaborating Architect
Ricardo Candela | Arquitecto de proyecto
Estefanía Soriano | Arquitecto colaborador¬
Carlos Lucas | Arquitecto colaborador
Judith López | Desarrollo y Gestión Empresarial
José María Ibañez | Business developer CCG y México
Jose Manuel Arnao | Arquitecto colaborador
Andrea Baldo | Arquitecto colaborador
Paloma Feng | | Arquitecto colaborador
Javi Herrero | Arquitecto colaborador
Paco Chinesta | Arquitecto de proyecto
Gino Brollo | Arquitecto colaborador, MArch Arquitectura y Diseño
Angelo Brollo | Arquitecto colaborador, MArch Arquitectura y Diseño
Laura Bueno | Arquitecto colaborador
Toni Cremades | Arquitecto colaborador, MArch Arquitectura y Diseño
Gabriela Schinzel | Arquitecto colaborador, MArch Architecture and Design
Lucas Manuel | Arquitecto colaborador
Nuria Doménech | Arquitecto colaborador
Andrea Raga | Arquitecto colaborador
Olga Martín | Arquitecto colaborador
Víctor González | Arquitecto colaborador, MArch Arquitectura y Diseño
Pepe Llop | Arquitecto colaborador
Anahí Aguilera | Arquitecto colaborador
Awab Bek | Arquitecto Colaborador
Monike Teodoro | Arquitecto Colaborador
Gemma Aparicio | Arquitecto colaborador

Ana de Pablo | Financial Manager
Sara Atienza | Responsable de Marketing y comunicación
Valeria Fernandini | Dpto. Financiero
Sandra Mazcuñán | Dpto de Administración
Andrés Martínez | Técnico Marketing
Kateryna Spuziak | Técnico Marketing

Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

The Sphinx Cairo building design images / information received 300323 from Fran Silvestre Arquitectos in Egypt

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