A Sakakini Neighborhood Debate
A picture for the Sakakini Neighborhood in 1960s cairo.The Sakakini is the name of one of the oldest prestigious Egyptian families from Syrian origin in Cairo.The Palace in the middle is the Skakini Palace that was built in 1897, that still exists yet not maintained properly. So we in Project: manifesto team had one tiny argument once we saw this picture, and posted on facebook asking it looks more like Jabal Amman, Malhaas hospital or Ma'mouniyyeh park in Jabal Al Hussein?
Team Dima:
On one hand, Jabal Amman's Malhaas Hospital relates to the Sakakini neighborhood in the sense of a building of importance being in the center, and the rest of the neighborhood of less important buildings organically radiates from that center,in a radial configuration forming a perfect circle.
Team Hamza:
On the other hand,Ma'mouniyyeh neighborhood is this dense radial configuration of a neighborhood that organizes around the kidney shaped void, rather than a building mass of the urban lansdscape.However, its dense radial configuration is very similar to Sakakini Neighborhood in old Cairo.
So, are you in team Hamza or Dima?
