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

The aqueduct of EL QANATER EL KHAYREYA is one of the most important renaissance projects carried out by Muhammad Ali in Egypt. The aim behind its establishment was to improve the quality of agriculture by developing the irrigation system in the Delta region. It is considered one of the greatest constructions of the modern era in the field of irrigation engineering. El Qanater El Khayreya gravitated life along the hanging banks of the Nile, resisting the cataclysmic forces brought by the progression of time. It witnessed the rise and fall of existing regional civilizations and artifacts through the different events of the time. This infrastructure could perhaps nurture a strong productive identity, together with reviving historical memories, to weave the complexity of urban structures on the banks of the Nile. The area needs a physical gaze to go beyond dimensions of time; El Qanater El Khayreya takes up the role of a manifesto of collective essentials; portrayed as an identity born throughthe collision of internal and surrounding external structure. As the enactment plays out, It is a motivated spirit that consistently morphs by bumping into a multiplicity of structures and matters folding infinitely in the form of urban, agriculture and landscapes. This infrastructure is intended to expand the vision of this area through a gate on the Nile generating the two branches of the Nile; Rosetta and Damietta. A multiplex of morphological structures could be accompanied by a touristic Nile port that could, once again, boost the complex area through local intervention with a regional reflection.