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myceli
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Architecturalengineeringdepartment
Assignmentonemateri alanalysi
s
thefutureofarchi
tecture
studentname:
saraalwehr,sereenobei
dat supv:drzai
daldeek
raghadjaradat,anahgeem toubasiarchghaderalrashdan

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