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The Nile Park is to be reflective of the river Nile , the life-giving vein which in ancient Egypt created the opportunity to cultivate the land. Besides the master grid, the meandering Nile Park forms the main organizing element for the GEM site regarding placement, geometry and consistency.

It is a linear visual and auditory experience of the many forms water can take: still, running, falling, trickling, cascading...

The Nile Park is the one significant element of the Masterplan which physically and visually connects every landscape zone of the GEM. Sometimes it is cascading and an intense interactive water feature, while at other places the Nile Park line is only indicated by stone.

The Nile Park line used as a water element driven from the landscape of land of Egypt is only indicated by stone.

General view of the Land Of Egypt Park from top of the upper plateau of the museum site

Recreational Garden envisioned as a multi-use space for relaxing, children playing, eating and gathering.

The Temple Garden Area are made up of a series of Gardens to the front of the museum galleries bounded by a radial strip of stepped surfaces accommodating the ‘ temple garden buildings ’ .

The Temple Garden at 45.0m is a thematic collection of gardens, designed with reference to tomb and temple gardens in ancient Egypt . From the Temple garden another landscape feature the ‘ Pyramids climb ’ lead up to the Dunal Park . Flanking the temple garden is a long radial strip housing two restaurants. One restaurant serving the museum visitors ‘ The Temple garden Restaurant ’ and one outside the museum boundary serving with separate entrance road - ‘ Pyramids Restaurant ’ . This restaurant would remain open at night after the museum has closed.

The third floor of the conference building, roof garden and offices, is the final gallery tray. It continues the concept of the solid stepping form with the roof gliding over.

The sheltered external roof garden enables the roof to be seen in a different light and provides the managerial offices with a private external space. The use of this roof garden is flexible, for this reason access for the public, if so desired, has been provided for. There is a main route leading from the more public first floor level to the roof garden.

The roof garden could be rented out as a show-room space to various business organizations. Another benefit t of this area is that future expansion could be absorbed on this floor plate, this is another reason why the roof structure is concrete with a perforated stainless steel sheet above similar to that of the main museum.

The digital stream walls on the roof garden are 550mm, concrete faced with stone. They break down the expanse of the roof garden, giving it a scale that is easier to inhabit. They stagger in plan allowing for panoptic views across possibly the final exhibition tray. The third floor slab of the roof garden has a 300mm step to incorporate drainage / insulation / paving. If future expansion occurs this sectional difference in height will be absorbed by a 300mm raised floor, bringing the new expanded space to the same floor level as the existing offices.

Roof Garden Light: The roof garden is protected from the severeness of the Egyptian Sun through the shading mechanism on the roof. The roof takes the place of what would be a natural canopy of trees within a conventional garden.

Above is the flexible canvas of the Roof Garden. Through the vocabulary of the roof garden listed to the right, this space can be transformed to cater for an event such as: Interview, Expo, Launch and back to Garden. Please see the images to follow.

The Dunal Park is based on the landscape of the desert plateaus bordering the Nile Valley providing spectacular views across Cairo , Giza and the entire museum site.

As an experience of Egyptian dunal landscape and desert vegetation, walking tours may be conducted to demonstrate and explain the unique qualities of dunal landscape forms.

The duanl park forms a connection between the Pyramid Climb and Dunal Park , as well as acting as an attraction in its own right.