Projekt IMPAQT

Since October 2017, the Department of Building Physics and Building Ecology, directed by Ardeshir Mahdavi, coordinates an international project targeting improvement in architectural education. This three-year project funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union aims to educate architects capable of initiating a paradigm shift. The objective is to promote a more integrative, multidisciplinary, people-centered, and technologically agile professional profile. Toward this end, natural and human sciences, aided by information and communication technologies, are to be deployed in a context-sensitive manner to address the challenges facing the building of human settlements that support and promote human values in a sustainable manner. A consortium of expert partners in their fields of specialization, from Europe and Egypt, come together to realize this vision through several outputs: On the one hand, the program is planned to result in a 5-year duration towards a B.Sc. in Architecture within the School of Engineering at Nile University. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach that builds upon the wealth and diversity of the project partners to interrelate their specialization (Architecture and Urban Design, Structural and Construction Systems, Building Ecology, Building Physics, Human Behavior, Contemporary City and Practicum) to develop an innovative curriculum.