5-3-1 The first level of design: cityscape scale: According to the stadium location; its main approach is the journey from Alexandria City; Cairo is too far, Northern Coast equipped only in the summer, Borg El-Arab City is new residential with small population “108.000 inhabitants ("Borg El Arab", 2013).”
A- Stadium as an icon refers to city identity: The eighteen concrete lotus flower-shaped columns are influenced by state’s culture, those columns cover 35% of the form, there is no sculpture form or richness in design (Fig 34). The design of the gate is influenced by Alexandria …show more content…
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• Stadium site area: the site is not large enough to contain hosting facilities (Fig15, 41), there is no spacious, safe external public circulation, activity areas, and marshaling space. It would be a problem when fans leave the game at the same time because there are no entrainments facilities Channel fans smoothly. Fig 37: The stadium is located outside Alexandria City. There is the Enormous distance between them, it’s about 27.8 km.
Fig 3846: There is a Regional Road Network is leading to the site. The stadium has a strategic position between 4 Region; Alexandria (50km), Cairo (202km), Borg El-Arab (18.5km), Northern Coast (8.4km). Alexandria Governorate has two cities ("Alexandria", 2013): (1) Alexandria City; second largest city in Egypt, and an important tourist resort extending about 32km along Mediterranean Sea coast. (2) Borg El- Arab City; a new residential and industrial settlement, established to redistribute overcrowding in Alexandria City. Key
A: Stadium location
B: Alexandria city center.
C: City Entrance.
D: Mariout Lake.
E: Industrial