Rana Bahaa El-Dabaa - رنا بهاء الضبع Rana El-Dabaa, RIBA Associate. Assistant professor at the department of Architecture and Environmental Design in Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport. Also, she is involved in various research projects. Rana's research includes several topics as developing passive motion mechanisms in adaptive façades using programmable and smart materials, computational design and parametric approaches to optimize building performance specially daylight and energy consumption. Competitions: 2020: Kinetic Revival Box 2018: Passive Programmable Motion: Energy Efficient Interactive Actuators - “Knowledge Application and Notion for Society Scientific Competition” (KANS 2018), Team: Dr. Sherif Abdelmohsen and Rana El-Dabaa - (Honorary mention) 2012: Parametric Fanoos Design and Fabrication Competition – Fab lab (1st prize) Designer: Rana Bahaa 2010: The President's Medals Student Awards competition - Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) - Project’s name: Galaxy on Earth , Designer: Rana Bahaa – URL: http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Entry-26261 2010: Rehabilitation of Sednaoui Al Khazendar Building’s competition Team: Dr. Sherine Shafik, Arch. Ingy El Gebaly, Arch. Ola Rostom, Arch. Ahmed Gamal, Arch. Rana Bahaa, Arch. Walid Abaza, Arch. Sarah El Bayar, Arch. Rana Sameeh. 2009: - Gamal Abd El Nasser’s Museum competition (2nd prize) Team: Dr. Sherine Shafik, Dr. Mohamed Adel, Dr. Sarah Al Saadani, Arch. Ingy El Gebaly, Arch.Rana Bahaa. Exhibitions - Digital Fabrication: Timber Morph: Soft Adaptive Building Skins for Energy Efficient Architecture [Sherif Abdelmohsen, Passaint Massoud, Rana Bahaa, Aly Magdy, Tasbeh Mokbel], Maker Faire Cairo, Smart Village , Cairo, Egypt, April 2017. Workshops: - “Hygroscapes: Adaptive Building Facades” (2019) Research Assistant and lecturer, 5 days’ workshop, for post Grad. Students in collaboration with Princeton university (PU) and Rome Tre University (Italy),American University in Cairo (AUC), held in University of Rome Tre, Italy. - “Digital Fabrication Lab” (August 2018), 5 days’ workshop, under-graduate students, held in Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AAST), Cairo, Egypt - “Hygroscapes: Adaptive Building Facades” (July 2017) Research Assistant, 5 days’ workshop, in collaboration with Princeton university (PU) and Rome Tre University (Italy), in AUC Cairo, Egypt. - “Adaptive Building Facades” (April 2017) Research Assistant, 10 days’ workshop for CEE546 Graduate students, at Princeton university (PU), New Jersey, USA. - “Parametric Daylight Simulation”, 2015, Attending, IBPSA, Arkan, Cairo. - “D-code” Attending, 2015, Cairo.
