Adaptive Reuse: Promoting the Sustainable Values of Historical Buildings Revival of Capritage Helwan by Integrating its Collective Memory into the Present through Interior Design

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First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the academic staff members that without whom the topic of adaptive reuse would not have been introduced to Arts & Design, a new challenge with new potentials that the external juries, doctors, and teaching assistants gave their genuine interest and dedication toward, and for also planning the talks and events in order to provide us with the most recent and updated trends currently happening in the interior design industry, I’m thankful for all the critiques, discussions and encouragement that highly helped shaping my thesis, it’s a pleasure to have had this opportunity to work under the guidance of such a professional, dedicated, and supportive academic staff. I would also like to show my gratitude to AL. Tarek Fouad for his intensive supervision through the semester, without his unconditional interest, support, and involvement two days through every week of the semester, my thesis wouldn’t have been of the same quality, I would also like to thank AL. Neveen Hadi for her support and inspiring discussions associated with my concept & design approach which exposed me to various methods and techniques that are beneficial for INTR406-Graduation Project II. I’m highly grateful for the Award-Winning Designer & Mentor Hisham El-Essawy for his support and provision of valuable information that helped shaping my HCD and with the advice of post-design processes of implying the project into the real environment its located in. Finally, I would like to take a moment and thank my parents, for their immersive support and constant love through my journey through the past years, Lastly I thank God for providing me with such blessings in life and giving me the needed passion and power in order to fulfil my project