SAWAQI

Building Better Public Spaces for Egypt's New Cities

Sawaqi Urban Development creates and delivers integrated urban projects that improve the way people move, wait, walk, rest, and connect with the city around them.

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Urban development is not only about buildings. It is also about the quality of the public spaces between them—the station where people wait, the path they walk along, the landscape they experience, and the infrastructure that makes everyday movement safer and more comfortable. Sawaqi brings these elements together through an integrated approach to public-realm development, landscape, irrigation, mobility, and urban improvement.

Our delivery model

From concept to completed public space.

Sawaqi's first delivered project was funded through the company's own investment and developed as an integrated public-space scheme. This model reflects our commitment to taking responsibility for the design, delivery, and quality of the finished environment.

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What we do

Five disciplines. One integrated urban practice.

We combine the disciplines that shape public space so that every element works as part of a coherent urban environment.

Public Realm Development

We design and deliver public spaces that serve people first. Our work can include plazas, waiting stations, walkways, seating areas, public amenities, and the spaces between buildings. A successful public space should be useful, comfortable, accessible, and connected to the character of its surrounding city.

Landscape & Irrigation

We develop landscape, planting, and irrigation solutions that support the performance and identity of each site. Our approach considers the local climate, planting requirements, maintenance needs, water management, and the long-term quality of the landscape.

Sustainable Mobility

We support more accessible and organized urban movement through pedestrian paths, bicycle parking, waiting areas, and other mobility-supporting elements appropriate to each project. Our goal is to help connect people with the places they use while making public movement more comfortable and more integrated with the urban environment.

Street Furniture

Seating, shade, lighting, signage, waste facilities, and other small-scale elements have a major influence on how people experience public space. We coordinate these components to improve comfort, usability, safety, and visual consistency.

Streetscape

We coordinate the elements that define a street's character, including paving, kerbs, planting, lighting, movement routes, and the relationship between buildings and the public realm. The result is a streetscape that is clearer, more coherent, and better connected to the people who use it.

Featured project

Hadayek El Asema Waiting Station

Our flagship project combines a modern waiting station with an integrated public-realm environment. The scheme includes seating and waiting areas, pedestrian paths, bicycle parking, landscaping, green spaces, planting, irrigation, and supporting public-space elements.

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Self-funded

Integrated elements

Let's create better urban places together.

If you are planning a public-space, landscape, mobility, or urban-improvement project in a new city, we would welcome the opportunity to understand your objectives and discuss the right approach.

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