Shahira hammad biography books

Shahira Hammad is an architect who graduated from Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Egypt, and then she followed her studies with a master degree from Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Shahira&#;s work usually inspired from both Nature and Social Culture. Find more about her thesis project below.

Project Description From the Architect:

This project represents my thesis for the “Excessive” Post-Graduate program at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, We were asked to envision a new train station for Vienna, one that would either modify or replace the existing Westbahnhof train station.

I chose to keep the existing building, but to contaminate it with structures that would express a complexity that now is missing. My intervention was inspired both from Nature and Culture, and beyond its polemical characteristics it does intend to bring back what in science is called: Biography books on famous people!