Omnia M . Ali
Assistant professor at the Department of Architecture, Higher Technological Institute (HTI).
Ph.D. 2023, Theories of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Egypt.
MSc 2010, Building Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Egypt.
BSc 2005, architectural engineering, Higher Technological Institute, Egypt. Grade of Excellent with honors, graduated the project with a grade of Excellent and ranked 1st in my class.
A licensed architect in Egypt.
In June 2009, I get summer training at IAESTE Tunisia (the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience.
I had extra-curricular activities, as I received the first prize in the League Information Competition organized by the Ministry of Higher Education in 2006. I also received the first prize in the Ideal Student Competition four times at the Ministry of Higher Education level in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.
In Dec 2013, I participated in Eco Architecture-Summer school at Stuttgart University.
In Feb 2015, I participated in the VALUES workshop (Budapest - Luxor) at Budapest Technical University.
Phone: 01154229522
Address: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5424-5949
Ph.D. 2023, Theories of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Egypt.
MSc 2010, Building Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Egypt.
BSc 2005, architectural engineering, Higher Technological Institute, Egypt. Grade of Excellent with honors, graduated the project with a grade of Excellent and ranked 1st in my class.
A licensed architect in Egypt.
In June 2009, I get summer training at IAESTE Tunisia (the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience.
I had extra-curricular activities, as I received the first prize in the League Information Competition organized by the Ministry of Higher Education in 2006. I also received the first prize in the Ideal Student Competition four times at the Ministry of Higher Education level in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.
In Dec 2013, I participated in Eco Architecture-Summer school at Stuttgart University.
In Feb 2015, I participated in the VALUES workshop (Budapest - Luxor) at Budapest Technical University.
Phone: 01154229522
Address: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5424-5949
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Moreover, the relationship between movement and urban forms shapes the city’s urban mobility. The research significance lies behind documenting and analyzing the situation in Heliopolis urban nodes after the major additions in flyovers and intersections in the favor of vehicular modes of commuting in 2019 so that it provides an opportunity for future studies in this field. However, these intrusions neglected the vital role of urban nodes and their effect on mobility in Heliopolis. This study’s objective is to investigate the morphological changes in urban nodes resulting from Heliopolis’ new urban
development and review it according to previous urban theories to clarify its impact on the city’s urban mobility and transportation modes. The study will be conducted through a comparative analysis between Heliopolis urban nodes before and after the aforementioned development. Moreover, the study will apply a morphological analysis to investigate the transformation of the urban nodes (Heliopolis Square and El-Hegaz Square) physical form by abstracting the urban elements to clarify the transformation of the street patterns, geometrical form, and movement in the squares. Thereupon, the
paper expounds on whether these intrusions enhanced or diminished the ability of urban nodes to serve the city’s urban mobility. The results of this review demonstrate that this new development affected positively vehicular movement in the selected nodes but affected negatively walkability. Furthermore, this development removed the tramlines which were one of the identity elements and a traditional mobility mode in Heliopolis. Consequently, the results also show that there is a mutual relationship between mobility and identity. This provides new opportunities
for future scientific researches to understand to what extent identity affects mobility.
reliable literature and research articles were reviewed to identify the components that can create place identity. The paper empirically analyzes the checklist of place identity components by comparing two case studies. As identity is affected by the place’s culture and the nature
of the people in it, this paper focuses on public places in administrative areas in Greater Cairo. This comparison was made using the collected data from documents and archives and the observation during the site visits. An interview with experts was also done. Based on the data, the study assessed the sense of identity in the two cases. According to the results, this study identified the strengths and weaknesses in each assessment category, then presented identity-enhancing strategies (IES) to enhance identity. The findings came in three categories, environment-related strategies, people-related strategies, and strategies for the relationship between the place and its people. This approach adopted by the study can be used to derive other strategies for different places.
To achieve the objectives of the research, the study used a descriptive approach and analytical method to conclude a set of findings and recommendations regarding improvement of the function of police stations in Egypt, through the review of design standards of police stations, comparable to local police stations standard models, in addition to, a public survey of users regarding their opinions of functional efficiency of the police station buildings. The paper concludes with some findings and recommendations. That can be relied upon to raise the functional efficiency of the police stations in Egypt.
يؤدي قسم الشرطة دورا هاما في المجتمع، حيث يقدم الخدمات مدنية للمواطنين إضافة إلي مهمته في حفظ الأمن في المجتمع، وقد قل العطاء البحثي في تصميم أقسام الشرطة في مصر، لذا تهدف تلك الورقة البحثية إلي أن تكون بداية لإلقاء الضوء علي أهمية دراسة رفع الكفاءة الوظيفية لأقسام الشرطة في مصر عن طريق تحسين التصميم المعماري لتلك المباني بما بتناسب مع احتياجاتها الوظيفية.
ولتحقيق أهداف البحث فإن الدراسة استخدمت المنهج الوصفي والتحليلي والاستنباطي للخلوص إلي مجموعة من النتائج والتوصيات لتحسين الأداء الوظيفي لأقسام الشرطة في مصر، وذلك عن طريق استعراض المعايير القياسية للأقسام الشرطية، ومقارنة الأقسام الشرطة المحلية بالنماذج القياسية، إضافة إلي استطلاع بعض أراء المستخدمين في مدي جاهزية مباني الأقسام الشرطية لأداء وظيفتها. ويختتم البحث بنتائج وتوصيات يري الباحث أنه يمكن الاعتماد عليها لرفع الكفاءة الوظيفية للأقسام الشرطية في مصر.
This study literature provided a deep recognition of place identity definitions by opting for the inductive method of literature and research articles discussing several factors and elements that identify place identity. This study used the descriptive-analytical approach to analyze, compare, and explore the collected information on place identity to present a checklist for place identity components. This checklist divides the identity of the place into three axes: Environment, people, and the interaction between them, under two primary classifications: tangible and intangible. The checklist was validated by surveying experts' opinions on the importance of these components in creating a place's identity.
Afterward, the paper empirically analyzed the checklist of place identity components by assessing two case studies. As identity is affected by the place's culture and the nature of the people in it, this paper focused on public places in administrative areas in Greater Cairo. The two case studies were selected based on three conditions: classified as a public place, located in an administrative area, and existing in the Greater Cairo Region. According to these requirements, the Ministries Square in the downtown area of khedivial Cairo and the governmental district in the new administrative capital were picked. The identity of public places in the case studies was examined according to the checklist of place identity components extracted from the theoretical study.
The field study relied on three sources of data; archives and available documents of those places, site visits (observation), and interviews with experts. According to the results, this study identified the strengths and weaknesses in each assessment category, then presented Identity Enhancing Strategies (IES) to enhance identity. The findings came in three categories, environment-related strategies, people-related strategies, and strategies for the relationship between the place and its people.
Finally, the conclusion states the whole process of the study and spots the significant factors that form the identity of the place. It also presents strategies for enhancing the sense of identity of public places in the administrative areas of Greater Cairo to the officials and decision-makers. After that, the study refuted its limitations to clarify future studies in this field. The added value of this study is that its methodology can be followed to evaluate and develop other places with different functions and characteristics.
Keywords: Urban Identity, Public Places, Assessing Identity, Enhancing Identity, Greater Cairo, khedivial Cairo, The New Administrative Capital, Administrative Areas.
On this perspective, the study tries to devise the role, which the architecture could play to improve the service of the police stations, which will effect on improving the psychological feelings towards the buildings of the police stations through activating the police stations buildings design according to the global design standards. The researcher will achieve that through undertaking study to compare between the local and international police stations.
Therefore, the reach reviews the most important characteristic of the police regime in Egypt over various ages beginning with the pharaonic age going through the changes of the police regime in the Islamic age till reaching the organizational structure what is it today. The research also reviews the police stations and its relation with the local bodies in order to know the station systematic in Egypt according to the Chronological order.
The study tackled the architecture section (subject matter) defining the international standard criteria of the design of the police stations according to the theoretical study in the reference books beside studying examples of adopted standard design of the police stations in the standard architectural books to get set of measurable standard requirements in the second chapter.
In the view of the fact that the standard examples have incomplete buildings which its operational efficiency can't be measured. Also, being limited models which competent to service size of population which doesn't conform to the local reality. So, the study analyzes international models of the police stations in various countries which were built recently (over the last ten years after 2005) to get measuring rule of the matrix including the designing principles and basis's to follow it during building the police stations in the current age, those points are tackled in the third chapter .
Finally, in the fourth chapter, the study deals with the analytic details of the modern local police station which is adopted by the public administration of the projects and the financial research of the Ministry of Interior which the researcher considered the typical model because of its novelty and adopted by the competent authorities and comparing it with the result of the second and the third chapter (measuring ruler).
The study concluded the researcher findings to the recommendations, which he thought that it the findings can increase the functional efficiency of the police station buildings in the security and service part according to the analytic theoretical and practical study through clear methodology.
تعد مباني الأقسام الشرطية من المباني متداخلة العلاقات الوظيفية، حيث يتعدد أنواع المستخدمين لتلك المباني وتتفاوت احتياجاتهم، وهو الأمر الذي يصعب علي المصمم التعامل معه في تلك المباني. وتقدم مباني أقسام الشرطة في مصر العديد من الخدمات المدنية للمواطنين، إضافة إلي إلحاق المطافئ والمرور والمباحث بقسم الشرطة، وذلك في مباني منفصلة أو في نفس المبني، إلا أن الاعتقاد الراسخ عند أغلب الشعب هو أن أقسام الشرطة معنية بالخدمات الأمنية فقط، وهو الأمر المنافي للحقيقة.
ومن هذا المنطلق تحاول الدراسة استنباط الدور الذي يمكن أن تلعبه العمارة في تحسين الدور الخدمي لأقسام الشرطة والذي سوف يؤثر علي تحسين الشعور النفسي تجاه مباني أقسام الشرطة وذلك بالاعتماد علي تصميم مباني أقسام الشرطة المحلية وفقا للمعايير التصميمية العالمية.
ومن ثم يتعرض البحث في الفصل الأول منه لأهم سمات النظام الشرطي في مصر في العصور المختلفة بداية من العصر الفرعوني، مرورا بتحولات النظام الشرطي في عصر الدولة الإسلامية، ووصولا إلي الهيكل التنظيمي الذي عليه النظام الشرطي في مصر اليوم، وعلاقته بالأجهزة المحلية وذلك لمعرفة طبيعة النظام الشرطي في مصر وفقا لذلك التسلسل التاريخي.
ثم انتقلت الدراسة إلي الشق المعماري (موضوع الرسالة) وذلك بالتعرف علي المعايير التصميمية القياسية العالمية لأقسام الشرطة وفقا للدراسات النظرية في الكتب المرجعية، وأيضا دراسة أمثلة أقسام الشرطة القياسية المعتمدة في الكتب المعمارية القياسية، وذلك للخروج بمجموعة من الاشتراطات القياسية التي يمكن القياس عليها، وذلك في الفصل الثاني.
ونظرا لكون الأمثلة القياسية نماذج غير مبنية لا يمكن قياس كفاءة تشغلها، وأيضا كونها نماذج محدودة تختص بخدمة أعداد سكانية لا تتوافق مع الواقع المحلي، قامت الدراسة بتحليل نماذج لأقسام شرطة عالمية من دول مختلفة بنيت حديثا (خلال العشر سنوات الأخير بعد 2005) للخروج بمسطرة قياس في مصفوفة تشمل مبادئ وأسس تصميمية متبعة في بناء أقسام الشرطة في العصر الحالي، وكان هذا هو موضوع الفصل الثالث.
وأخيرا تعرضت الدراسة في فصلها الرابع بالتحليل التفصيلي لقسم شرطة محلي حديث معتمد من الإدارة العامة للمشروعات والبحوث المالية بوزارة الداخلية, واعتبره الباحث القسم النموذجي المحلي نظرا لحداثته واعتماده من الجهات المختصة، وتم مقارنته بنتائج الفصل الثاني والثالث (مسطرة القياس).
وقد خلصت الدراسة إلي نتائج خلص الباحث منها إلي توصيات يعتقد من وجهة نظر الدراسة أنه يمكن من خلالها رفع الكفاءة الوظيفية لمبني قسم الشرطة أمنيا وخدميا وفقا لدراسة نظرية تحليلية وتطبيقية ذات منهجية واضحة.
Moreover, the relationship between movement and urban forms shapes the city’s urban mobility. The research significance lies behind documenting and analyzing the situation in Heliopolis urban nodes after the major additions in flyovers and intersections in the favor of vehicular modes of commuting in 2019 so that it provides an opportunity for future studies in this field. However, these intrusions neglected the vital role of urban nodes and their effect on mobility in Heliopolis. This study’s objective is to investigate the morphological changes in urban nodes resulting from Heliopolis’ new urban
development and review it according to previous urban theories to clarify its impact on the city’s urban mobility and transportation modes. The study will be conducted through a comparative analysis between Heliopolis urban nodes before and after the aforementioned development. Moreover, the study will apply a morphological analysis to investigate the transformation of the urban nodes (Heliopolis Square and El-Hegaz Square) physical form by abstracting the urban elements to clarify the transformation of the street patterns, geometrical form, and movement in the squares. Thereupon, the
paper expounds on whether these intrusions enhanced or diminished the ability of urban nodes to serve the city’s urban mobility. The results of this review demonstrate that this new development affected positively vehicular movement in the selected nodes but affected negatively walkability. Furthermore, this development removed the tramlines which were one of the identity elements and a traditional mobility mode in Heliopolis. Consequently, the results also show that there is a mutual relationship between mobility and identity. This provides new opportunities
for future scientific researches to understand to what extent identity affects mobility.
reliable literature and research articles were reviewed to identify the components that can create place identity. The paper empirically analyzes the checklist of place identity components by comparing two case studies. As identity is affected by the place’s culture and the nature
of the people in it, this paper focuses on public places in administrative areas in Greater Cairo. This comparison was made using the collected data from documents and archives and the observation during the site visits. An interview with experts was also done. Based on the data, the study assessed the sense of identity in the two cases. According to the results, this study identified the strengths and weaknesses in each assessment category, then presented identity-enhancing strategies (IES) to enhance identity. The findings came in three categories, environment-related strategies, people-related strategies, and strategies for the relationship between the place and its people. This approach adopted by the study can be used to derive other strategies for different places.
To achieve the objectives of the research, the study used a descriptive approach and analytical method to conclude a set of findings and recommendations regarding improvement of the function of police stations in Egypt, through the review of design standards of police stations, comparable to local police stations standard models, in addition to, a public survey of users regarding their opinions of functional efficiency of the police station buildings. The paper concludes with some findings and recommendations. That can be relied upon to raise the functional efficiency of the police stations in Egypt.
يؤدي قسم الشرطة دورا هاما في المجتمع، حيث يقدم الخدمات مدنية للمواطنين إضافة إلي مهمته في حفظ الأمن في المجتمع، وقد قل العطاء البحثي في تصميم أقسام الشرطة في مصر، لذا تهدف تلك الورقة البحثية إلي أن تكون بداية لإلقاء الضوء علي أهمية دراسة رفع الكفاءة الوظيفية لأقسام الشرطة في مصر عن طريق تحسين التصميم المعماري لتلك المباني بما بتناسب مع احتياجاتها الوظيفية.
ولتحقيق أهداف البحث فإن الدراسة استخدمت المنهج الوصفي والتحليلي والاستنباطي للخلوص إلي مجموعة من النتائج والتوصيات لتحسين الأداء الوظيفي لأقسام الشرطة في مصر، وذلك عن طريق استعراض المعايير القياسية للأقسام الشرطية، ومقارنة الأقسام الشرطة المحلية بالنماذج القياسية، إضافة إلي استطلاع بعض أراء المستخدمين في مدي جاهزية مباني الأقسام الشرطية لأداء وظيفتها. ويختتم البحث بنتائج وتوصيات يري الباحث أنه يمكن الاعتماد عليها لرفع الكفاءة الوظيفية للأقسام الشرطية في مصر.
This study literature provided a deep recognition of place identity definitions by opting for the inductive method of literature and research articles discussing several factors and elements that identify place identity. This study used the descriptive-analytical approach to analyze, compare, and explore the collected information on place identity to present a checklist for place identity components. This checklist divides the identity of the place into three axes: Environment, people, and the interaction between them, under two primary classifications: tangible and intangible. The checklist was validated by surveying experts' opinions on the importance of these components in creating a place's identity.
Afterward, the paper empirically analyzed the checklist of place identity components by assessing two case studies. As identity is affected by the place's culture and the nature of the people in it, this paper focused on public places in administrative areas in Greater Cairo. The two case studies were selected based on three conditions: classified as a public place, located in an administrative area, and existing in the Greater Cairo Region. According to these requirements, the Ministries Square in the downtown area of khedivial Cairo and the governmental district in the new administrative capital were picked. The identity of public places in the case studies was examined according to the checklist of place identity components extracted from the theoretical study.
The field study relied on three sources of data; archives and available documents of those places, site visits (observation), and interviews with experts. According to the results, this study identified the strengths and weaknesses in each assessment category, then presented Identity Enhancing Strategies (IES) to enhance identity. The findings came in three categories, environment-related strategies, people-related strategies, and strategies for the relationship between the place and its people.
Finally, the conclusion states the whole process of the study and spots the significant factors that form the identity of the place. It also presents strategies for enhancing the sense of identity of public places in the administrative areas of Greater Cairo to the officials and decision-makers. After that, the study refuted its limitations to clarify future studies in this field. The added value of this study is that its methodology can be followed to evaluate and develop other places with different functions and characteristics.
Keywords: Urban Identity, Public Places, Assessing Identity, Enhancing Identity, Greater Cairo, khedivial Cairo, The New Administrative Capital, Administrative Areas.
On this perspective, the study tries to devise the role, which the architecture could play to improve the service of the police stations, which will effect on improving the psychological feelings towards the buildings of the police stations through activating the police stations buildings design according to the global design standards. The researcher will achieve that through undertaking study to compare between the local and international police stations.
Therefore, the reach reviews the most important characteristic of the police regime in Egypt over various ages beginning with the pharaonic age going through the changes of the police regime in the Islamic age till reaching the organizational structure what is it today. The research also reviews the police stations and its relation with the local bodies in order to know the station systematic in Egypt according to the Chronological order.
The study tackled the architecture section (subject matter) defining the international standard criteria of the design of the police stations according to the theoretical study in the reference books beside studying examples of adopted standard design of the police stations in the standard architectural books to get set of measurable standard requirements in the second chapter.
In the view of the fact that the standard examples have incomplete buildings which its operational efficiency can't be measured. Also, being limited models which competent to service size of population which doesn't conform to the local reality. So, the study analyzes international models of the police stations in various countries which were built recently (over the last ten years after 2005) to get measuring rule of the matrix including the designing principles and basis's to follow it during building the police stations in the current age, those points are tackled in the third chapter .
Finally, in the fourth chapter, the study deals with the analytic details of the modern local police station which is adopted by the public administration of the projects and the financial research of the Ministry of Interior which the researcher considered the typical model because of its novelty and adopted by the competent authorities and comparing it with the result of the second and the third chapter (measuring ruler).
The study concluded the researcher findings to the recommendations, which he thought that it the findings can increase the functional efficiency of the police station buildings in the security and service part according to the analytic theoretical and practical study through clear methodology.
تعد مباني الأقسام الشرطية من المباني متداخلة العلاقات الوظيفية، حيث يتعدد أنواع المستخدمين لتلك المباني وتتفاوت احتياجاتهم، وهو الأمر الذي يصعب علي المصمم التعامل معه في تلك المباني. وتقدم مباني أقسام الشرطة في مصر العديد من الخدمات المدنية للمواطنين، إضافة إلي إلحاق المطافئ والمرور والمباحث بقسم الشرطة، وذلك في مباني منفصلة أو في نفس المبني، إلا أن الاعتقاد الراسخ عند أغلب الشعب هو أن أقسام الشرطة معنية بالخدمات الأمنية فقط، وهو الأمر المنافي للحقيقة.
ومن هذا المنطلق تحاول الدراسة استنباط الدور الذي يمكن أن تلعبه العمارة في تحسين الدور الخدمي لأقسام الشرطة والذي سوف يؤثر علي تحسين الشعور النفسي تجاه مباني أقسام الشرطة وذلك بالاعتماد علي تصميم مباني أقسام الشرطة المحلية وفقا للمعايير التصميمية العالمية.
ومن ثم يتعرض البحث في الفصل الأول منه لأهم سمات النظام الشرطي في مصر في العصور المختلفة بداية من العصر الفرعوني، مرورا بتحولات النظام الشرطي في عصر الدولة الإسلامية، ووصولا إلي الهيكل التنظيمي الذي عليه النظام الشرطي في مصر اليوم، وعلاقته بالأجهزة المحلية وذلك لمعرفة طبيعة النظام الشرطي في مصر وفقا لذلك التسلسل التاريخي.
ثم انتقلت الدراسة إلي الشق المعماري (موضوع الرسالة) وذلك بالتعرف علي المعايير التصميمية القياسية العالمية لأقسام الشرطة وفقا للدراسات النظرية في الكتب المرجعية، وأيضا دراسة أمثلة أقسام الشرطة القياسية المعتمدة في الكتب المعمارية القياسية، وذلك للخروج بمجموعة من الاشتراطات القياسية التي يمكن القياس عليها، وذلك في الفصل الثاني.
ونظرا لكون الأمثلة القياسية نماذج غير مبنية لا يمكن قياس كفاءة تشغلها، وأيضا كونها نماذج محدودة تختص بخدمة أعداد سكانية لا تتوافق مع الواقع المحلي، قامت الدراسة بتحليل نماذج لأقسام شرطة عالمية من دول مختلفة بنيت حديثا (خلال العشر سنوات الأخير بعد 2005) للخروج بمسطرة قياس في مصفوفة تشمل مبادئ وأسس تصميمية متبعة في بناء أقسام الشرطة في العصر الحالي، وكان هذا هو موضوع الفصل الثالث.
وأخيرا تعرضت الدراسة في فصلها الرابع بالتحليل التفصيلي لقسم شرطة محلي حديث معتمد من الإدارة العامة للمشروعات والبحوث المالية بوزارة الداخلية, واعتبره الباحث القسم النموذجي المحلي نظرا لحداثته واعتماده من الجهات المختصة، وتم مقارنته بنتائج الفصل الثاني والثالث (مسطرة القياس).
وقد خلصت الدراسة إلي نتائج خلص الباحث منها إلي توصيات يعتقد من وجهة نظر الدراسة أنه يمكن من خلالها رفع الكفاءة الوظيفية لمبني قسم الشرطة أمنيا وخدميا وفقا لدراسة نظرية تحليلية وتطبيقية ذات منهجية واضحة.