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

该项目将有助于加深对埃及文化遗产的更广泛概念的理解，并通过认真管理干预措施，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协作过程结合起来，研究这种遗产如何有助于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遗弃的局面。该项目将为维护埃及批发市场建筑的近期文化遗产制定框架。这些市场在开罗的中心位置，周围是不同市场，城市居民和学校的较大零售区，使它们成为文化活动的潜在价值，并作为埃及博物馆以外的博物馆教育场所。然而，目前，这些大型有盖市场主要由城市棚户区居民使用，他们向周围的城市居民提供切菜、廉价电子产品、面包店和香料服务。原有车间线的横向和纵向延伸造成了难以管理火灾风险和卫生条件差的局面。此外，当局不断尝试改变这些街市的结构，或在街市内兴建楼宇，破坏了建筑物的完整性和历史意义。同样，我们必须意识到，试图重新开发这些建筑会带来中产阶级化的风险，使其目前的城市贫困用户边缘化，并破坏其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，对遗产价值的理解以及与弱势群体的合作过程。通过对阿塔巴市场的具体案例研究，该项目将开发和分享一个愿景，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。虽然我们会透过世界其他地方的街市翻新计划，以及与本地持份者合作制作的过程，发展我们的愿景，但我们会探讨，例如，将街市目前作为食品零售场所的功能，扩展为一个共享的地方，让人们可以享受烹饪教学和用餐，以及以展览空间的形式举办文化交流的孵化器，和博物馆教育设施之外。在屋顶上，我们设想开展活动，让社区熟悉城市农业和可再生能源技术。研究将主要借鉴和促进可持续建筑技术、文化遗产和社区协作进程以及城市农业、食品和博物馆学等领域的知识。一个具体的方面将是在英国和欧洲开发的方法的可转移性检查埃及非常不同的文化，经济和体制环境。

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.