Maged Elsamny

TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment, Post-Doc

Alexandria University, Architectural Engineering, Graduate Student

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Graduate Student

Followers

138

Following

Public Views

A curious explorer with diverse experience in project management, civic engagement, and academia combined with special studies in innovation, and urban development. I managed to successfully complete several technical and social projects ranging from innovative games for social change to developing tools for cultural education. My organization skills and languages immerse me in multi-cultural environments and strengthen my networks by maintaining internal and external relationships. I believe my architecture background inspires me to accelerate innovations for sustainable transitions.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdelall Ibrahim and Dr. Alberto Gianoli
Address: Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

less

InterestsView All (32)

Uploads

Papers by Maged Elsamny

Accelerating innovation for the Dutch bioeconomy transition: the case of biobased asphalt

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management , 2022

This article explores and explains the factors affecting the development of biobased innovations ... more This article explores and explains the factors affecting the development of biobased innovations for the Dutch bioeconomy transition. Qualitative analysis through semi-structured interviews and secondary data was made on Bioasphalt as a case study to extract these factors from the empirical situation. Due to the scarcity of literature on biobased innovation for the bioeconomy, this research offers a base for policy makers to position the biobased innovations into the circular economy plans. The findings show that the urgency factor associated with the circular economy implantation has negatively affected the development of biobased innovations. On a micro level, the analyzed factors will assist niche actors in accelerating their biobased solutions. Although the innovation ecosystem structure highly depends on the nature of the technology or product, studies using similar approaches will allow for the generalization of the results.

NanoArchitecture: Nanotechnology and Architecture

The research investigates the importance of using contemporary advanced technologies as an outcom... more The research investigates the importance of using contemporary advanced technologies as an outcome of globalization. Such international integration has greatly influenced architecture and the way we plan it, due to the new technological inventions that comes up hastily, fast mobility and the ease of communication. Nanotechnology as a result of the global cooperation in technology has become the cutting-edge technology of the 21st century. This manipulation of matter at the nanoscale has revolutionized our contemporary technology in all aspects of life, especially in material design, building methods, and architectural perceptions. In three parts, the thesis promotes the above issues in an attempt to deliver the up-to-date ideas and technologies of the 21st century to the architect: 1-Contemporary thinking; explaining the myriad effects of globalization on architecture, 2-NanoTechnology; an insight into nanotechnology and how it can be integrated into our buildings, 3-Applications; and evaluation for the effect of the revolution of nanotechnology featuring works of different architects and initiatives.

Download

NanoArchitecture - Nanotechnology and Architecture

The research investigates the importance of the use of new up-and-coming technologies as an outco... more The research investigates the importance of the use of new up-and-coming technologies as an outcome of globalization. Such international integration has greatly influenced architecture and the way we plan it, thanks to the new technological inventions that comes up hastily, fast mobility and the ease of communication. Nanotechnology as a result of the global cooperation in technology has become the cutting-edge technology of the 21st century. This manipulation of matter at the nanoscale has revolutionized our contemporary technology in all aspects of life, especially in material design, building methods, and architectural perceptions. In three parts, the thesis promotes the above issues in an attempt to deliver the up-to-date ideas and technologies of the 21st century to the architect and be aware of these contemporary issues, which can be summarized as follows: 1. Contemporary thinking; which explains globalization with an overview of the development of this international movement towards the integration of cultures, resources and human intellectualism, through economy and industry. This has greatly influenced architecture of the past century to form an international style and a revolt against all classism, which has been developed later to become a global style that eradicated any ethnic, technological, or regional borders. However, this international integration has sparked a new race of technological inventions that helps the architect to develop and create new architectural trends. 2. Nanotechnology; as a good reflection of the global technological movement towards a better future. This manipulation of matter at the nanoscale has provided the human with a different new technology and customized materials. It is not an individual science or technology; it is a uniting expression for the multi-disciplinary area of producing technologies operating in the area of extremely small size particles and materials. Many products involving nanotechnology are already available and the future applications seem endless in different areas ranging from biomedicine, computers, consumer products, energy and material design. Together with architecture, it marks up the Nanoarchitecture style, which is the use of nanotechnology in architecture by either the new customized materials or new shapes and forms of buildings. Examples for the use of new nanomaterials in existing buildings are also given in this section to exhibit the limitless feasibility of this new technological invention of the nanoscience. 3. Applications; and evaluation for the effect of the revolution of technology and industry that nanotechnology is shaping; either on the architect, society and architecture. This part features works of architects John Johnsen, and Peter Testa and initiatives like the nanoHOUSE, and the nanoStudio. The objective is to highlight the importance of globalization and its impact on architecture through the use of nanotechnology.

Nanotechnology and NanoArchitecture

ArchCairo 09, 2009

Nanotechnology is still a fledging science but one that has been forecast an extremely promising ... more Nanotechnology is still a fledging science but one that has been forecast an extremely promising future with the potential to change the world around us. A nanometer is one billionth (10-9) of a meter, it offers ways to create smaller, cheaper, lighter and faster devices that can do cleverer things, use fewer raw materials and consume less energy.
The applications of nanotechnology are in all aspects of our life, it can be pertained in medicine, industry, communications, transportation, and more important, architecture. The use of nanotechnology in architecture varies from materials, equipments, to forms and design theories.
When introducing a new technology to a field such as the construction industry, one should always first examine the benefits it can bring. In case of the application of nanotechnology, we are talking about added value, additional functionality, as well as market demand with regard to product development.

▪ Will it affect forms, design, materials.
▪ Can nanoarchitecture be extremely useful in hospitals hotels…etc.?

Keywords:
Nanotechnology, Nanoarchitecture, Nonmaterial, Nano applications, Nanosurfaces, Nanosensors, Carbon Nanotubes, and Nanocomposite

Download

Biological NanoArchitecture and the Next Generation Materials

Advanced Technologies in Architecture Biological NanoArchitecture (BNA)

The recent rapid increase in human population over the last two hundred years has raised concerns... more The recent rapid increase in human population over the last two hundred years has raised concerns that humans are beginning to overpopulate our planet, while the available natural resources may not be able to sustain present or larger numbers of humans. However, the industrial revolution has contributed to the development of humans it led to a population shift from rural villages to urban cities and megacities. This population shift has created new problems that didn’t exist before, challenging to maintain a sustainable living. The rapid growth of cities is due to the need to build new homes and provide services for inhabitants of these cities but with much less knowledge of the downsides on the environment, which led to the increase of harmful gas emissions in the air with unprecedented amounts that are now threatening our healthy living. Therefore, the need to develop a new kind of technology that is able to produce less emissions or in fact zero-emissions production is imperative to stop climate change and it became a global challenge to all architects in the past decade, not only to provide more healthy environment to all living beings but also preserve natural resource for future generations. However, the ultimate challenge is to construct buildings that can also restore the damage caused by previous generations and other industries.
This research has a large goal to spur fundamental shifts in thinking and practice in sustainable architecture to improve human life and reduce environmental degradation. This is an ambitious aim that is difficult to achieve yet one reality is evident: Biological Technologies are the key. While the past century was dominated by the flow of information, and advances in physics, electronics and communication, this coming era is considered to be the biological and nanotechnological revolution
Biological NanoArchitecture focuses on biotechnology and nanotechnology use in architecture; mimicking a natural bio system in the building process through the use of nanotechnology, to create a distinctive trend of architecture that is in harmony with the environment and embedded in nature. This new trend of architecture will solve economic issues, provide more human comfort and restores a healthy environment not only for the building users but also for greater society.

Download

Architectural Education Reform in Egypt: Results of Survey on Advanced Technologies in Architecture (Biological NanoArchitecture)

Twenty-first Century Architecture: Biological Nanomaterials for Green NanoArchitecture

Biological NanoArchitecture is the result of multidiscipline researches in biotechnology, nanotec... more Biological NanoArchitecture is the result of multidiscipline researches in biotechnology, nanotechnology and building technology. Throughout the history of Earth, it has been proved that nature does it best to adapt for the coexistence of different species, and the more our buildings perform like natural systems the less natural resources we consume to ensure a sustainable planet for future generations of all living species. This paper introduces a glimpse from the abundant possibilities offered by biological nanotechnology to architecture and the construction industries. The need for these new advanced technologies is on the rise and architects must have the knowledge to adapt these technologies in our buildings to provide human comfort and reduce the gases emitted from the construction industry.

Biological NanoArchitecture: Architecture in the Age of Biomaterials

Advanced Material Research, Mar 2013

Biological NanoArchitecture is to build natural spaces that contribute to the biological-system a... more Biological NanoArchitecture is to build natural spaces that contribute to the biological-system and integrated with the surrounding environment, and as healthy as the womb for an embryo to grow. It should have a positive effect on the health of its occupants while enriching the ecosystem of the planet by consuming zero resources and producing zero waste. In this paper, I will try to introduce the myriad potentials of advanced technologies in the 21st century to architects and builders. Advances in Biotechnology and Nanotechnology will change the way we think, design and construct our buildings, and transform our inorganic buildings into synthetic organic structures that can behave like living species and merge with the biological cycle of the planet. This change of thinking can be achieved through adopting bionic systems in our buildings and mimicking nature the way it builds life forms. After 3.8 million years of evolution, it’s nature that does it best to adapt for survival, and the more our buildings look and function like natural systems, the more we are likely to find solutions to our contemporary global problems like overpopulation and climate change. This requires that we should look at nature as a source of learning and inspiration rather than a source of materials and energy.