Researcher & Doctoral Candidate
Salma Khamis
Room A 410
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Curriculum Vitae
Salma Khamis started at the Habitat Unit in April 2014 as a PhD candidate, supported by a DAAD scholarship. Her current research focus is Co-housing, its historical roots and various contemporary models as alternatives to provide affordable housing. Her PhD thesis is about "Cooperative Housing in Egypt – Case study of Greater Cairo".
Since 2016, Salma is co-leading a DAAD/BMZ-funded 4-year project "RealCityLab: Practice-orientation in architectural Education" (2016-2019). The main objective of this project is to enhance the architecture education quality by introducing new didactic tools and applied research components for the bachelor of architecture program. Adding a strong orientation on practice and applied research to the existing curriculum at Faculty of Fine Arts-Helwan University, where she studied in Cairo.
Salma Khamis has worked as an Architect in various positions on Heritage Conservation and Urban Development of Historic Areas, Rehabilitation of Historic Buildings and Districts considering the socio-economic environment. Since 2009, she worked at the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo primarily for the DFG-Project Aegaron, an online repository for standardized plans and data of Ancient Egyptian Architecture. Before that, Salma completed her master's degree with distinction in writing about "Adaptive Reuse of valuable Heritage Buildings within the scope of Urban Development of Historic Areas – applied on Bab-Al-Shariyya district" at Cairo University.
Above and beyond, she gathered different practical experiences as an architect in several Architecture and Heritage Management Offices in Egypt and Germany. Moreover, she took part in various national and international workshops, not only in relation to Cultural Heritage and Rehabilitation Projects, but also regarding Housing and Urban Planning. She is an active team member of Urbego (Young Planning Professionals Platform), as well as a member of the Egyptian Engineering Syndicate.
2009
Master of Science in Architecture (M.Sc.), Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. (Thesis) Adaptive Reuse of Valuable Heritage Buildings within the scope of Urban Development of Historic Areas – applied on Bab Al-Shariyya District. (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Soheir Hawas, Prof. Dr. Dalila ElKerdany).
1998 – 2003
Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.Sc.), Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University. (Thesis) Rehabilitation of El-Sayeda-Zeinab-Square in Old-Cairo.
1998
Abitur (German matriculation examination)
Deutsche Schule der Borromäerinnen, Cairo.
Since 2018
Lecturer
Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
Since 2016
Researcher and Project coordinator RealCityLab
Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
Since 2014
Doctoral Candidate
Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
2009 – 2014
Architect and Researcher
DFG-Project: Aegaron. DAI Cairo
2006 – 2007
Architect and Researcher
Hampikian-Ibrashy Heritage Management, Cairo
2006
Freelance Architect
Dr. Krekeler and Partner Architekten, Brandenburg a. d. Havel
2005
Freelance Architect
Dr. Mohamed Tawfik Abdel Gawad Consultancy, Cairo
2003 – 2005
Project Coordinator and PR Representative
Cultural Department of the Goethe Institut Ägypten, Cairo
2016 – 2019
RealCityLab: Practice-orientation in architectural Education
Habitat Unit-TU Berlin, Funded by BMZ and DAAD
2009 – 2014
DFG Project: Aegaron.
Funding acquired by Dr. phil. Ulrike Fauerbach, DAI Cairo.
WS 2018/2019
Design Studio: Red Sea All-Inclusive, Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
WS 2016/2017
Seminar: Building Communities through Cooperative Housing in Cairo, Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
SS 2016
Summer School: From „Ashwa'eyat" to „Habitat Spontané" Transformation and Informal Urbanism in Tunis, Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
WS 2007/2008
Winter School: Urban Design in Heritage Context. Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University in cooperation with BTU Cottbus
Conference Proceedings
with Ulrike Fauerbach and Martin Sählhof (2011) Aegaron – Ancient Egyptian Architecture Online. In: Heine, Katja et al. eds. Erfassen, Modellieren, Visualisieren, Von Handaufmaß bis HighTech III. 3D in der historischen Bauforschung, Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium, Darmstadt/Mainz, pp. 262–268.
with Ulrike Fauerbach, Willeke Wendrich, Martin Sählhof, Bethany Simpson and Angela Susak (2010) Aegaron – Ancient Egyptian Architecture Online. In: Ioannides, Marinos ed. Digital Heritage: Third International conference, Euromed 2010. Lemessos, Cyprus, pp. 463–472.
Conference Papers
(2016) Berlin - A selfmade culture Future-oriented self-initiated co-housing and residential projects. 2nd International Conference for Cooperative Housing: The Role of Housing in Achieving an Integrated Cooperative System, General Authority for Construction and Housing Cooperatives, Cairo.
(2014) Housing the Egyptian Middle Class - An Assessment of Housing Policies and their Implementation since 1952. 6th International Conference: Responsive Urbanism in Informal Areas, Cairo University.
(2013) Visualising Egypts Architectural Record - The Aegaron-Project. Visualising the Archaeological Record – Architecture, Inscriptions, Landscape, DAI Kairo.
(2012) From Hard Copy to Soft Copy – Globalizing Ancient Egypt‘s Heritage. Archaeology and Cultural Studies in Egypt, DAI Kairo.
Conference panel chairs
(2016) Theme 5: Community motivation and capacity building for successful integrated cooperatives "Participatory in Cooperative framework. 2nd International Conference for Cooperative Housing: The Role of Housing in Achieving an Integrated Cooperative System, Cairo, 12-14 December.
(2015) Urban Housing: Alternative Housing Models. Egypt Urban Forum (EUF), Cairo, 14-16 June.
(2014) Habitat III - Regional Youth Discussions, Roundtable 3: Housing and Slum upgrading. 6th International Conference: Responsive Urbanism in Informal Areas, Cairo, 25-27 November.
(2018) Cooperative Housing - an alternative housing model. Faculty of Fine Arts Helwan University, Cairo
with Hassan Elmouelhi (2015) Cairo - 3 in 1. Seminar: a house a flut a hutt a hat. TU Berlin.
with Ulrike Fauerbach, Martin Sählhof and Eman Shokry (2014) Visualising Egypts Architectural Record - The Aegaron-Project. Deutsches Wissenschaftszentrum, Cairo.
2014 – 2018
DAAD-GERLS, German-Egyptian Long-Term Scholarship
awarded to support Doctoral Dissertation
Since 2012
Whose Monument
Participatory Design Project for Monument-Street Buffer Zones