During the past ten years, he has been extensively involved in research in the area of Environmental Architecture, Participatory Design and Sustainable Development with focusing on educational buildings’ architecture, community participation, Design Build Architecture, and Users (children) Sociology. Beside his expertise, he is also skilled in Building Analysis and experimental field work. These trends he intended to advance in the future.
His interest in Participatory Architecture research arises from its global burden especially in his country (Egypt) with the existing top down decision making strategies and the arising community initiatives in the informal settlements. His extensive research work in the Participatory Design especially school architecture and children participation incorporates a range of local and international workshops and public lectures mentioned in his resume.
Humans being the most valuable element of design, He would like to devote his research, and his academic career, to investigating participatory related topics form theoretical, empirical and computational stand points. His current research emphasizes on the following hypotheses in part of his greater project School Design PARTICIPATORY TAG™ which aims at:
• Upgrading building efficiency and architectural design by fragmented case analysis and simulation, participatory case studies of Germany, Netherlands, and the Middle East.
• Introducing reverse and passive solutions for upgrading building elements for a better performance.
• Introducing participatory design international regulation code and assessment tool.