​The Project is about finding a “Gandhian” way in architecture and using that approach to design a post-riot rehabilitation for a community displaced by the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots.
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Thesis precinct
Communal riots wrack Muzaffarnagar in September, leaving the people scarred and homeless. This is the single largest incident of violence in Uttar Pradesh since Indian Independence affected almost fifty thousand people across nine villages.  Overnight, people were forced to flee the homes they had been inhabiting for generations. This project is targeted at a community of100 such displaced families in kandhla village of Muzaffarnagar District, Uttar Pradesh. The total site area is 3.7ha. It includes one existing Madrasa and two ponds. 
I lived on site for four months. Through community discussion and research, I realised that rehabilitation is not just building houses. A detailed emphasis has to be given on the lifestyle, social structure and economy of the community. This displacement is looked upon as an opportunity   

​Tamayouz International Award is an annual international architecture that aims to recognise and reward excellence in architectural design worldwide. It is empowering a generation of young architects to pursue their careers knowing that they can contribute towards the advancement of architecture in their communities.

Lama Alhamed and Tamara Al-Safadi from the University of Jordan are second place winners of Tamayouz International Award for architectural excellence 2016, for their work on The Panacea – Community Centre, a graduation project that was supervised by Dr Saleem Dahabreh. 
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The Judging Panel described the project as an intriguing project on all aspects of ‘recycling’ and creating circular concepts not just related to energy, waste and material, that extended into the social domain. The design entails a kind of urban catalyst, to provide both a machine for a sustainable lifecycle in the urban neighborhood, but also multi-use spaces for workers, residents and visitors. The combination of an industrial function and urban services creates an exciting – slightly idealistic – vision of a new architecture for distressed areas in Amman.

​​Site selection criteria
 
The western buffer zone of Mujib reserve was selected as the area of study. Human access to the reserve, the end-flow of water, water harvesting, treatment and pumping, eco-tourism, all happen in this part of the reserve.
 

Current movement patterns
 
The construction of the dead-sea highway on the edge of the western boundary of Mujib reserve, allowed people to reach the area by driving between north and south, and entering the reserve starting an unofficial eco-tourism in the wadi’s in the late 90’s, therefore the RSCN decided to organize these activities and confine them in certain canyoning and hiking trails. A visitors’ center was built and recently renovated and expanded adjacent to the entrance of Siq al Mujib where all canyoning trails start, while the end point of most of the trails is 1.5 km far from the starting point -to the south.

On their way back to the starting point, eco-tourists have to walk on the side of the highway to reach the visitor’s center, and if they are staying for an overnight in the Mujib chalets which were built along the coast in 2008, they should cross the highway and walk the sloped terrain down, interrupted by the wired pumping station.

​Focus area
 
The existing interventions in the area had rational reasons to exist each in where it is currently placed, but not necessarily in the present way of implementation. Dependently, the project’s area and quality was determined.
The located infra-structural and architectural interventions generated from certain human-needs linked with the area, either related to transportation (dead-sea highway and bridge), water (Mujib levee and water pumping system), or eco-tourism (visitors’ center and chalets), however the network connecting these interventions was not planned in a comprehensive manner, which made it hard and unsafe to move from one point to another. The approach in this project relies on the traces of these existing structures without expanding the footprint on site, while preserving and encouraging human movement in it.
 

​Tamayouz Award for architectural excellence
Student Category –Iraqi projects
2016 Third Place Winner – Ali Nashwan
Function of the project:
Function of the project: Nano Technology Research Center

The Third Prize goes to Ali Nashwan from Mosul University (in Kirkuk) for his project; Nano Technology Research Centre.  Ali’s graduation project was supervised by Professor Ali Haider Al-Jameel.  Ali is the only Iraqi student who made it to both shortlists; Tamayouz International (Top 20) and Tamayouz Iraq (3rd Prize) with two different projects, A remarkable achievement coming all the way form Mosul University in such a difficult time.
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The Judging Panel Commented on The selection of project function and the site in proximity to a university and described it to be well set up, the project shows good design development and the designer masterfully sets up an appropriate setting for the habitable blocks. The use of geometry is beguiling and sets up a lovely urban condition.

Ali Nashwan describes his project as a Celebration of the process of nanotechnologies.
Nanoscience was discovered through special types of microscopes One of the most important devices that helped the discovery and development of Nanoscience is the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)

​Atomic force microscope components and uses
The device consists of a needle (Tip) passing over the surface to be scanned, the needle is installed on horizontal holder (Cantiliever) so that the needle is perpendicular to that holder and perpendicular to the surface at the same time, the holder is rising and falling with rising and falling of the needle according to the terrain in the surface, where the needle read the coordinates of the points of the surface to be scanned and give them to the computer to form a three-dimensional surface and zoom it in millions of times. When the needle is approaching from the sample surface, a force  between the needle head and the surface of the sample is generated and this leads to a deviation of arm and read the surface.
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The resulting forms after the scanning process is a 3D spherical forms and often vaulted surfaces similar to the moon.

Generation of Design idea generated according to previous data:
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The basis of the design idea is the (AFM), there will be a contact between the (AFM) device and the surface of the sample, Where the Earth's surface is the surface of the sample and the blocks above the ground is the scanning device (tip, cantilever).
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In order to simulate the forms of scanned surfaces and get similar forms on the ground surface of the project, Laboratories placed underground to get the topography of the earth surface by natural skylight as shaped domes, and making a big hole with a circular shape for getting topography where there's a tip descends in the middle of the hole., And an outside laboratories and seating areas in the form of domes have been made. The building is consists of three cones each cone represents the  (tip) on the surface of the sample in a particular position.

The building also consists of three rectangles each rectangle reflects the case of the device during its movement over the surface, The self-similarity strategy has been used in the formation of the project, which meets in the context of the scale nanoscale. Which cannot be seen only through microscopes on the one hand and pictures of the universe scale of space on the other hand, which can only be seen through a telescope, where the surfaces of nanoparticles is similar to the surfaces of the space and the moon.

The same material has been used to cover inside and outside parts of the building, by using nanotechnology to process the surface of the material to become suitable for ​exterior and interior use. ​Also the function side were taken big space from the design. And I used the type of lab building.

​Tamayouz Award for architectural excellence
Student Category –Iraqi projects
2016 Second Place Winner – Sattar Flaih
Function of the project: AN INTERACTION CENTER PROJECT 
HILLAH, BABYLON, IRAQ.
 
Sattar Flaih from Babylon University is the winner of ​The Second Prize of Tamayouz Award- Iraqi Category for his work on the Interaction Center Project; Sattar’s work was supervised by Dr Hassan Al-Guesbi.  Sattar is the first student from Babylon University to make it to the Tamayouz Top 10 of the Tamayouz Iraq Award.

The Judging Panel described the project as a balanced project in all, and commended the skilfully executed form that integrates well with the river and its own site and very well presented.

Sattar Flaih, Describes his project to be a vital multi use project of social, scientific and environmental interactions. Which provide a real new chance to change the every-day life routine. Sense-experience subjectivity can be controlled and guided to desired common-sense effects. New materials, tools and technologies are experienced here in different interaction spaces. One can relate to others physically and sensually by virtual reality techniques and advanced smart applications.

​LOCATION:
The project is located at the east bank of "Shat Al-Hillah", a branch of Euphrates river, which extend north of about (5) km reaching the remains of the famous city of Ancient Babylon. Also, the river streams down across the city of Hillah with a remarkable cornice.

​The site itself, of about (105,000) m2, can tell more stories of different historical, cultural and religious events. It stands in the midway between the history of Ancient Babylon and the heritage of the city of Hillah, while immortal flowing river is still holding and sharing memories within time.

​THE CONCEPT:
            In Post-Modernism, human beings had been returned to be the center and part of everything around again. This paradigm shifted the view to the nature and the whole world in both macro and micro levels. Advanced developments in communications and high technologies enabled us to see and conceive things differently.

​It is supposed to be that sustained patterns and systems reveals themselves when their inner self-organized structures can match the structures of their neighbours locally and globally. Humans well-structured minds are designed to interact with natural forms accordingly. Organic forms imply continuous piecemeal changes in their morphologies.

Instead of capturing change, it is possible to manage it dynamically. Secrets of life can be revealed somehow by tuning nature with geometry. The story of this project begins with the flower of life, The Chamomile Babylonian Flower, embodied amazingly in the laws of sacred geometry of Ancient Babylon. Organic architecture is manifested clearly by using organic forms which are related deeply with the iconic form of Chamomile in a significant way that tuning the site. With canonical rules  and folding architecture, the whole can be merged altogether in a wonderful way to re-present life.
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Also, organic architecture is manifested clearly here by using organic forms. In the other hand, inner activities and functions are related to the bio-electronic and digital environment trying to create virtual common realms beyond the constrains of possible. One can live, feel and enjoy his interaction with others and with the smart environment around him. Inner plan subdivisions and elevations details show a scaling Golden Ratio of (1:1.6) at each level of magnification. This multi layers sequence is manifested clearly in Chamomile Babylonian Flower of Life.

GOALS:
In theory: It is an attempt to improve that limitless imagination always need scientific applications to be verified.
In practice: It provides a mean to judge history, live the present and predict the future.

​USERS:

• Local visitors (children, youths, women…).
• Students, academic staff and researchers.
• Foreign tourists..
• Delegators and VIP visitors.

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