Creating a learning center for the trash collectors of Cairo
How one firm hopes to replace shipping containers Welcome back to The Architect's City, a monthly series inviting an emerging architect to reimagine an existing structure in his or her city, submitting a speculative proposal for Curbed readers. This month, a not-yet-implemented proposal for a learning center for the zabaleen, the trash collectors of Cairo, Egypt.
In a 2013 TED talk, ?Ingenious homes in unexpected places,? architectural photographer Iwan Baan talks about visiting the zabaleen, the trash collectors of Cairo, in apartment blocks they?ve built under the Moquattam quarries on the eastern edge of the city. Constructed atop open first floors where they sort the garbage they collect, the families that occupy the apartments specialize in different forms of recycling, he explains. ?Sometimes these apartments are used in very unexpected ways, like this home which caught my attention when all the mud and grass was literally seeping out from under the front door,? he says, showing a slide in which smears of mud swipe across floor tile where a welcome mat might otherwise be. When Baan?s hosts opened the door, he saw a scene of six cows grazing in what might have otherwise been a living room. And this across the hall from a newly married couple in what everyone agreed was one of the nicest apartments in the area, its silver-wallpapered dining room stuffed with baroque-style furniture. ?The attention to this detail astonished me,? he explained. ?From floor to ...
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