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Abstract
The study adopts the concept of regenerative design as the possible manner of facing the problems of development and healing degraded environments. Thus human activities could be regenerative instead of being degenerative. This concept is global and encompassing to all areas and levels of design.
To handle the problem at its roots, the study focuses on the design concept and the formalization of criteria. Starting with the life-supporting systems and land use patterns, and then moving to general application on smaller design scales, the study encompasses the whole situation. Then systems, natural or human, could be analyzed, designed and redesigned from this point of view. Following general strategies of regenerative design presented by Lyle and ecological design principles presented by van deer Ryn are another base of achieving regenerative design.
Identified as ”wetlands”, water edges represent in general some of the most productive life supporting systems on earth, and yet they are the target of very intense degenerative human uses.
Throughout the study, the possibility of applying the REGENERATIVE DESIGN CONCEPT is tested for application with a focus on edges. The study claims Egypt’s lived-in - and potentially livable - areas as edges, thus needing special care in design and development. Finding a suitable manner to suit local environmental design and practice becomes a major concern of the study. Following regenerative design policies can help Egypt and other developing countries, and even the lesser-developed ones, to meet the challenges of development in the early 21 st century and its postindustrial culture. Accordingly, adapting the flexible concept to such conditions is performed depending on the conceptual evaluation of major ecological processes, well-developed criteria based on general concepts, available pre-industrial knowledge, available data and communication technology.
PART I: Offers the historical, conceptual and technical basis for the concept of regenerative design and why it was adopted as a general design concept:
Chapter 1: Presents the change from industrial polytechnic technology to postindustrial geotechnical technology and the effect this has on design and largely on human societies.
Chapter 2: Presents ecological design and its evolution and moves to present
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Regenerative design as a more detailed and affecting branch of it, projecting its
Basis of understanding ecosystem tic modes and major processes.
Chapter 3: Based on ecosystem tic analysis, it evaluates pre-industrial and industrial practices to understand trends in the postindustrial age and explains the bases of Lyle’s strategies of regenerative design.
Chapter 4: Presents Lyle’s 12 strategies of regenerative design and analyze the anticipated state of postindustrial ecosystems.
Chapter 5: Presents the general mechanisms with which regenerative design achieves its purpose, namely energy, water, material, production, integration, and design. It also presents main trends and potentials of different futuristic design schools.
PART II: Offers a general view on water edges, their problems and means of applying regenerative design to their development by first developing a tool for formalizing design criteria that has other functions in linking different concerns and disciplines of design to achieve a simple ecological analysis methodology. Chapter 1: Presents the basic facts on water edges, identifying them scientifically as wetlands with high regenerative powers. It projects them as a subject of conflicting natural and human uses.
Chapter 2: Develops a structure for formalizing criteria (The Skeleton of Natural and Human Factors), where natural and human factors and elements of design and environment and their positive and negative interactions are analyzed, thus linking different disciplines. It also presents the regenerative design of the different types of edges either natural or man-made concentrating on local types.
PART III: Offers a view on the local situation and means of applying regenerative design generally and to water edges specifically:
Chapter 1: Presents a breakdown of the major elements of regenerative design using local case studies with local potentials and obstacles.
Chapter 2: This chapter compliments Chap. 1, PART II with a briefing on the local importance of edges and their ecological and human attributes and roles. A larger focus is directed to human factors. A vision of a possible manner for achieving a locally trended yet futuristic design concept is briefly projected. Chapter 3: Culminates the research into simple Designers’ Guidelines, where broad guidelines for designers are laid. Naturally this guide is meant to present only examples of concept’s application for general guidance of specialized and none: specialized designers.
PART IV: The case study of LAKE MARIOUT presents a local example of an environmentally deteriorating Inner water body with very high regenerative and productive capacities hindered. Problems are conceptually analyzed by applying the ecological analysis methodology formalized earlier. Accordingly, a conceptual
[Design criterion is formalized complimenting general criteria Included in the ~. DESIGNERS’ GUIDEUNES .