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The Prophet & The Wizard by Tareq Shakhshir
The site is in the place of Sugar Quay residential building which is currently a very mediocre typical residential building that serves no other purpose. It’s…
This diagram highlights the main existing grocery stores which are limited in the city of london and causes an inconvenience for residents. Also this…
This diagram demonstrates all the other necessities the tower will produce including agriculture, energy, and water. Our current living methods are…
I’ve started with initial sketch iterations that consider light and attaining a social community. I’ve selected a group of crops with different demographics…
This result of this configuration is based on the sun path. As the sun rises from the east and sets in the west from the southern perspective, the allotment…
This is a way to rationalize the building into 7 different parts that perform a different role and come together like a puzzle. Program wise, the aim of the…
This iso section can help unlock some questions you may have about how the building works and understand the variations that take place throughout the building…
To give a brief overview of the significant floors in this tower, I display them in plan.
You can see the tower is complemented with a pier to keep the ground floor public. However, over the public area comes probably the most private area of the…
This lower section hosts residential apartments as well as private allotments. The basic layout of the floor is determined by the rotating intersecting…
The middle section of the tower hosts restaurants, public allotments as well as the communal jungle. I wanted to show how the most active part of the building…
The idea is to drive the public to the centre and upper parts of the tower and thus the public allotments available to citizens in the city of London are…
I wanted to highlight the allotment area to demonstrate how we currently live far from where our food comes from and so I want to integrate it in our everyday…

The Prophet & The Wizard

Tareq Shakhshir · 2021 · Third Year

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