Sustainable Green Markets, regenerating the urban historic core to sustain Socio-Cultural heritage and economic activities

该项目将有助于发展对埃及文化遗产更广泛概念的理解，并通过仔细管理干预措施，将对遗产价值的理解、适当的技术创新和与当地弱势社区的合作过程结合起来，研究这些遗产如何促进社会和经济复兴进程。埃及最近的遗产往往被忽视，而倾向于将资金和精力用于其法老时代的古代文化和建筑遗产。这造成了失去机会和宝贵的建筑遗产被破坏的局面。该项目将开发框架，以维护埃及批发市场建筑的最新文化遗产。这些市场位于开罗的中心位置，周围是由不同市场、城市居民和学校组成的大型零售区域，这使得它们具有潜在的文化活动价值，并可作为埃及博物馆以外的博物馆教育场所。然而，目前，这些有盖的大型市场地块主要由城市擅自占用者使用，他们向周围的城市居民提供切菜、廉价电子产品、面包店和香料等服务。原来的商店线在水平和垂直方向上的延伸，造成了难以管理火灾风险和卫生条件差的情况。此外，正在进行的调整这些市场的物理结构或在其中建造的尝试破坏了建筑物的建筑完整性和历史意义。同样，我们必须意识到，重建这些建筑的尝试可能会导致中产阶级化，使它们目前的城市贫困用户边缘化，并破坏它们的物质和文化遗产价值。为了解决这些问题，我们组建了一个由英国和埃及研究人员组成的多学科团队，将适当技术干预的专业知识结合到历史结构中，理解遗产价值，并与无权和弱势社区合作。通过对Attabba市场的具体案例研究，该项目将发展和分享一个愿景，将这些市场的当代翻新扩展到更广泛的社会角色，作为文化和经济的核心。我们将通过了解世界其他地方的市场翻新计划，并通过与当地利益相关者合作的过程来发展我们的愿景，例如，我们将探索将市场目前作为食品零售场所的功能扩展为一个共享的地方，以享受烹饪教学和餐饮，并以展览空间的形式举办文化交流孵化器，并在博物馆教育设施之外。在屋顶上，我们设想了让社区熟悉城市农业和可再生能源技术的活动。这项研究将主要从可持续建筑技术、文化遗产、协作社区进程以及城市农业、食品和博物馆学等领域汲取知识，并为这些领域的知识做出贡献。一个具体的维度将是在英国和欧洲开发的方法的可转移性的检查，以埃及非常不同的文化，经济和制度背景。

This project will contribute to developing understandings about broader conceptions of Egyptian cultural heritage and examine ways that such heritage can contribute to processes of social and economic regeneration, through the careful management of interventions that combine understanding of heritage value, appropriate technological innovation and collaborative processes of engagement with local disempowered communities. The recent heritage in Egypt tends to be neglected in favour of directing funds and effort to its ancient cultural and built heritage from the Pharaonic era. This creates a situation of lost opportunities and valuable architectural heritage being left to ruin. This project will develop frameworks for sustaining the recent cultural heritage of wholesales market buildings in Egypt. The central location of these markets in Cairo, surrounded by a larger retail areas of different markets, urban dwellers and schools, makes them potentially valuable for cultural activities and to act as venues for museum education outside the museums of Egypt. Currently, however, these large covered market plots are predominantly used by urban squatters that provide their services of cut vegetables, cheap electronic goods, bakery and spices to the surrounding urban dwellers. Extensions on the original shop lines, both horizontally and vertically, creates a situation where it is difficult to manage risks of fire and there is poor sanitation. Moreover, on-going attempts to adapt the physical structure of such markets, or to build within them, have undermined the buildings' architectural integrity and historic significance. Equally, we must be aware that attempts to redevelop these buildings run the risk of gentrification, marginalising their current urban poor users and destroying their physical and cultural heritage value. To address these issues we have assembled a multidisciplinary team of UK and Egyptian researchers, combining expertise in appropriate technological interventions into historic fabric, understandings of heritage value and collaborative processes of engagement with disempowered and disadvantaged communities. Through taking a specific case study, of the Attabba market, the project will develop and share a vision for extending the contemporary refurbishment of these markets into a wider societal role, acting as a nucleus of culture and economy. Whilst we will develop our vision through knowledge of market refurbishment schemes elsewhere in the world and through a process of co-production with local stakeholders we will explore, for example, the potential to extend the market's current function, as a venue for food retail, into one with shared places to enjoy culinary teaching and meals, and to host incubators of cultural exchanges, in the form of exhibition space, and out of museum educational facilities. On the roof we envisage activities to familiarize communities with urban farming and renewable energy technologies.The research will principally draw from and contribute to knowledge in the fields of sustainable building technologies, cultural heritage and collaborative community process as well as urban agriculture and food and museology. A specific dimension will be an examination of the transferability of approaches developed in UK and the Europe to the very different cultural, economic and institutional context of Egypt.