Consultation that grows out of research

DEVELOPED BY DR. HANAA MOOSA · PHD 2014 · PUBLISHED 2018

Beyond the familiar political, economic, social, cultural and urban contexts lies a more comprehensive one: the value system that prevails in a community. It continually changes all other contexts and sets their direction of change. Adaptive reuse must read it first, to balance the community's real needs with conservation.

• Wide context — read the value system and its direction; choose active or passive reuse and the reuse category
• Limited context — compare and select suitable uses within that category
• Technical studies — set the constants to conserve and the variables that serve contemporary life

Moosa, H. (2018). Prevailing Value System Based Context, Adaptive Reuse. Proceedings of Science and Technology, IEREK.

DEVELOPED BY DR. HANAA MOOSA WITH PROF. AHMED OUF · 2019

Reuse decided at three scales at once, so that a single building's new use supports the street and the district around it.

• District — leading districts, residential and cemetery zones
• Street — craft and market streets, routes and community centres
• Building — typologies matched to suitable new uses

Moosa, H., & Ouf, A. (2019). Adaptive Reuse Levels in Historic Cairo. ArchCairo.

DEVELOPED BY DR. HANAA MOOSA · 2025

Reuse frameworks weigh political, social, cultural, architectural and environmental factors but leave the detailed economy out. This framework adds it — turning reuse from passive conservation into a tool for urban development.

• Opportunity costs of each reuse choice
• Economic networks and chains around the building
• Alignment with the region's leading industries and sectors

Moosa, H. (2025). Overcoming Economic Blind Spots in Adaptive Reuse. International Design Journal 15(6).

DEVELOPED BY DR. HANAA MOOSA · INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE (ICDH), UNDER THE AUSPICES OF UNESCO · 2025

A transferable method for closing the gap between heritage institutions and the communities they serve, developed through commissioned research on documentary heritage in the Arab world.

• Six stages, from mapping institutions and their value systems to evaluation
• Entertainment-Led Community Documentation Model
• A new mediating role: the heritage knowledge broker

Moosa, H. (2025). Documentation as a Process and Cultural Practice toward Heritage. International Centre for Documentary Heritage (ICDH), under the auspices of UNESCO; published with ISBN.