Urban survey of the craft papyrus workshops as an approach to documenting their cultural heritage

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1 Architectural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, misr Institute of Engineering and Technology, Mansoura, Egypt

2 Misr Engineering &Technology Institute, Mansoura, Egypt.

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Papyrus is one of the most important factors that contributed to our knowledge of ancient paranoiac history, where the documents and historical records were written on it, and Egypt was characterized by papyrus paper manufacture and export, in addition to being a traditional folklore craft that must be documented, and the village of Al-The village of Al-Qarmous is the only place in the world specialized in the cultivation and manufacture papyrus. However, Papyrus craft becomes gradually disappeared for several reasons, urbanization like the difficulties of accessing the road which led to the difficulty of communicating between craftsmen and Product display markets. Architecture problems, such as the Lack of suitable workshop designs to practice comfortably and professionally profession and the lack of technological development of manufactured equipment.

Therefore, this research emphasizes the need to design suitable workshops for papyrus manufacture, which represents a unique cultural heritage, and work to make heritage an integral part of the economic, social, and urban structure of the city plan, through the field and urban surveys of the traditional craftsmen’s workshops components And documenting its architectural components through simulation programs To document the unique cultural heritage of Egypt.

The research concludes by monitoring for craft workshop components while clarifying the need to adopt operational policies that enable the development of a mechanism to encourage investments in projects to develop architectural spaces for professional crafts to preserve the identity of the distinctive craft of the heritage of city culture, Conceptualize a design for papyrus workshops to meet humanitarian and professional requirements and also meet sustainability standards in order to be able to revive the craft and continue to grow With a methodology for developing architectural theories for specialized professional spaces.

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