Offener Wettbewerb (auch für Studenten) | 02/2012
A NEW TAHRIR SQUARE
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Our idea is to give to Tahrir Square the shape of what it represents today and what it can be tomorrow. An icon to the critical role that open spaces play in revolution and post-revolution era. It symbolized the revolt, and now it deserves to symbolize the rebirth of a democratic Egypt. As a new icon and space for interaction New Tahrir will play a role in consolidating a common cultural-historical background which creates an underlying identity of a community.
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The project seizes a vital feature of the site: a connection which goes beyond symbolical geometries and designed boundaries. This proposal allows a humanizing reading for a New Tahrir. Maybe in this garden a big void (space) could gather people to remember and meet again. The project is a landscape proposal with a remarkable botanical report that recalls the earthly garden, the reconciliation place par excellence. The tree is the unit, while democracy is a garden to look after.