Rescuing Urban Heritage

This workshop introduces urban conservation practices and management policies within a historic and heritage context. The complexity of the urban fabric and the tiers of different users affect the possible interventions and decision making to create a better quality of life and experiences. These intervention and decisions are strongly related integrity, authenticity and sustainability. The participants will engage in understanding the process of creating a conservation management plan through the eyes of different stakeholders.

Instructor

Ahmed Mansour is an architect with a bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo, 2002. He has received his M.Sc. in conservation of monuments and historical sites at the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (RLICC) at KU Leuven, Belgium in 2009. He has worked on projects concerned with the rehabilitation and re-use of historical buildings and the regeneration of traditional residential areas. From July 2010 to December 2014, Ahmed has been a UNESCO consultant within the Urban Regeneration for Historic Cairo project, aiming at developing a conservation and management plan for the World Heritage site of Historic Cairo. Since 2014, Ahmed worked on the documentation and rehabilitation projects of Heliopolis Hippodrome, Heliopolis company premises, Bab al-Azab - Citadel and privately-owned houses as well as the urban regeneration project of Darb al-Labbana