In 2016, Tamayouz Excellence Award has grown from a local award to an internationally recognized award judged by a renowned International Judging Panel.The purpose of this architectural design award is to recognise the excellence in architectural design and education worldwide and showcase excellent architectural examples to promote and provoke architectural debate to share architectural experience and knowledge among young architects and academics.
Celebrating young architects; the international students category focuses on supporting talent and innovation. The Seventh place was awarded to three young architects, Balsam Ibrahim, Hakem Al-Habahbeh Odai Haddad from the University of Jordan for their graduation project Redefining Waste, supervised by Dr Wael AlAzhari.
The winners described their project saying: ''Our vision was to alter community’s perspective towards environmental, economic and social sustainable manners, creating self-responsible individuals that construct an environment friendly community, and raising awareness about renewable energy in general.''
There has been a rise in the amount of waste being generated daily by each household all over the city; this project serves as an experimental prototype of an environmentally sustainable decentralized municipal solid waste management model in the city of Amman, Jordan.
The idea of the project evolved from the concept that man sprang from nature and should become whole again. Encouraging people to explore different methods of benefiting from trash, and educating people on different renewable energy resources; this project is dedicated to develop the community as well as the environment, also to raise people’s awareness about our mother nature, by providing hands-on upcycling workshop, urban farming, research and development facilities, organic market and a walk through tour in the material recovery facility.
The site is located at the north-east of Amman, Jordan at the outskirts. On the highway connecting the capital with Al-Zarqa governorate, comprising a high density neighbouring district. Our site is surrounded by three of the most populated districts in Amman; Marka, Basman & Tareq
Design objectives was firstly to establish an environmentally sustainable decentralized municipal solid waste management model, to support local economy by providing a renewable energy resource and material recovery revenues, to foster environmentally behavior in users, by changing their mind-set about trash and energy, to educate the public regarding the reuse of disposed materials and the renewable energy resources, also to establish a market that sells environmentally friendly products and introduce it as a social norm and a research canter on the matters of renewable energy resources and it’s different aspects, and finally providing work opportunities for local community and a public outing for the local community and context.
Design theory evolved from following the installation of our three dimensional set of activities which facilitate our vision, we aimed at creating a new architype within the typical rectilinear spaces that house our activities and defines our local built environment and urban fabric aiming at demonstrating that this typical space has the ability to house activities in a sustainable manner as same spatial form can have different qualities and establishing an iconic domestic/industrial image within the aggregation of this typical Jordanian spatial and urban form in the context of Ain Ghazal on a micro scale and in Jordan on a macro scale to tempt and magnetize local and foreign community into exploring what is occurring within this new archi-type as the human being is usually attracted to dissimilarities within his usual context. Moreover; we implemented basic urban farming concepts as we want to emphasize the importance of having green infrastructure; that is, natural landscape assets, including green spaces and water systems. Green infrastructure includes trees, parks, water sensitive urban design and green roofs, walls and facades. There is a range of benefits that can potentially be provided by green roofs, walls and facades: Increased property value, Storm water management, improved thermal performance, Aesthetics, open space, urban food production & cleaning the air.
Invitation to students worldwide:
Tamayouz is delighted to invite students of Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Planning, Architecture Technology and Landscape Design worldwide to register and submit their Graduation Projects. An independent international jury will review all entries and will select the winners of Tamayouz International Award 2017. Prizes include: An MSc Scholarship for 2 Years at the Polytechnic University of Milan, 2 scholarships for the Stadslab (European Urban Design Laboratory) master classes, Medals for 7 Honourable Mentions, supervisor the Year Medal, University of the Year Medallion. All the selected winners making the Top 10 list, the supervisor of the year and the university of the Year will be invited to attend our annual Tamayouz Excellence Award ceremony (Travel Expenses covered by the organisers of the Award).
Read the Brief here
http://www.tamayouz-award.com/tamayouz-international.html
Tamayouz is delighted to invite students of Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Planning, Architecture Technology and Landscape Design worldwide to register and submit their Graduation Projects. An independent international jury will review all entries and will select the winners of Tamayouz International Award 2017. Prizes include: An MSc Scholarship for 2 Years at the Polytechnic University of Milan, 2 scholarships for the Stadslab (European Urban Design Laboratory) master classes, Medals for 7 Honourable Mentions, supervisor the Year Medal, University of the Year Medallion. All the selected winners making the Top 10 list, the supervisor of the year and the university of the Year will be invited to attend our annual Tamayouz Excellence Award ceremony (Travel Expenses covered by the organisers of the Award).
Read the Brief here
http://www.tamayouz-award.com/tamayouz-international.html