Connecting Flow: Saida Edition

Abstract

My thesis revolves around identifying what defines a resilient city and how to achieve doing so in a dying city like Saida through creating tangible and intangible connections between the Old Saida Region and the Great Saida Region, and between the youth and the older, more traditional generation. All of which happens through cultural continuity and through the concept of “Flow”, by creating an optimal experience. My project is all about connectivity, connecting the old and the new, connecting through knowledge, generations, the people, and the crafts of Saida. Also, connecting and weaving into the existing context through an architectural scale and an urban scale. My project is a lighthouse to show people what to innovate and how to do so through luring them in. All of which I use to achieve cultural continuity. As a proposal to strengthen the connections in the city of Saida, these are to happen through a new typology connection to existing morphology, which is the oriental souk typology in the case of Saida. Through that, the project creates tangible and intangible connections between the old and the new.