O.A.S.I. KE-MET – Infrastructure of Living World

In El Qanater El Khayreya a water basin, located between a dam and a bridge, measures a triangle of land at the con!uence of the Damietta and Rosetta river branches. The project looks at the Nile’s governance, proposing the establishment of a ‘river assembly’. Biodiversity transects are built into the desert and the agricultural landscape: starting with water, echoing the sense of the fertile Kemet and reinterpreting the ‘well-being bridges’. The infrastructure is thought to project material culture and local know-how into a future of tourism, biodiversity, and agriculture. The triangle is designed as an oasis between water and land where an architecture made of bricks, reeds and tents is composed. Volumes, open spaces, pergolas, and devices are dedicated to tourists, researchers, and the living world. The waterways are rede"ned as a new tourist port, and piers and rafts are hooked to the crossing infrastructure, as potential places of reconciliation between the Nile, communities, and wildlife.