Ramses Square: Axonometric from David Stasiuk on Vimeo.

The modern practice of infrastructure planning in hyper dense Cairo has been one of spectacular devastation to the urban environment.Multi-story highways needle through complex historic fabrics whose foundations were set a thousand years before the invention of the automobile, injecting the city with a congestion of vehicles impossible to navigate in its current street system. Ramses Square, the epicenter of transportation interchange in Cairo, was the focus of an international design competition hosted by the Egyptian government to seek new solutions and opportunities for the overwhelming problems.The modern practice of infrastructure planning in hyper dense Cairo has been one of spectacular devastation to the urban environment.Multi-story highways needle through complex historic fabrics whose foundations were set a thousand years before the invention of the automobile, injecting the city with a congestion of vehicles impossible to navigate in its current street system. Ramses Square, the epicenter of transportation interchange in Cairo, was the focus of an international design competition hosted by the Egyptian government to seek new solutions and opportunities for the overwhelming problems.

In the submission of the final proposal, the competition called for 12 posters, a 50-page technical manual and a 10-minute video.  For this project, I was commissioned by Method Design to develop the primary content for the video portion of the submission.  Because of this, I participated actively in the early conceptual design phases of the competition entry, and then focused on learning Flash and After Effects in order to animate the various diagrams developed for the posters and technical manual. As various drawings became available, I sequenced and contributed to their content in order to transform them into active and dynamic documents.

Ramses Square: Transportation Networks from David Stasiuk on Vimeo.

Ramses Square: Urban Morphology from David Stasiuk on Vimeo.

Ramses Square: Projective Urban Archaeology from David Stasiuk on Vimeo.