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The Egyptian Ministry of Culture has announced ?Roba becciah: The informal city? as the theme of the Egyptian pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.
The pavilion curated by architects Islam El Mashtooly and Mouaz Abouzaid, architecture professor Cristiano Luchetti, art director and producer Giuseppe Moscatello, and art director Karim Moussa proposes the theme of a redevelopment of spontaneous commercial spaces across the entire country. The phenomenon of “free”, unstructured, often illegal, trading is predominant in many urban and suburban areas. The traditional souk is no longer confined to narrow streets and interstitial spaces of historical areas. Indeed, the space of commerce extends its tentacles seamlessly along the lines of urban streams without any rule. The project for the pavilion focuses on these strategic spaces but also on their content. The trading of “roba becciah” is a large portion of all market activities. Disused items produced and dismissed by consumerist societies are first collected and then stacked in areas to create mono-functional enclaves for future trading. To the curators, “roba becciah” represents an important metaphor of the anthropological-urban condition of the modern world. Potential locations in Egypt for the re-design of urban markets
Therefore the design of the ?urban market” seeks rethinking and the role of “free spa...