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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.
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.
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.
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.
The project tackles problems on an urban scale targeting urban blights in underdeveloped areas of the city of Amman in Jordan. These areas are mainly located in East Amman suffering from different problems; three sample areas were taken as example:
Marka (Extreme pollution), Al Natheef (Overcrowded and unorganized), Al Balad (Identity crisis).
Lama and Tamara describe their approach to solve these problems is by inserting a familiar program from the area itself capitalizing the local resources healing it from within. This method is referred to as Urban Acupuncture a theory where the city is regarded as the human body. The physical structures that exist in a city regarded as organs in Chinese traditional medicine system, while the activity and movement of people in the city regarded as Qi, energy that flow in the body. The main purpose is maintaining energy flows in the body (city) so it can work properly.
Marka (Extreme pollution), Al Natheef (Overcrowded and unorganized), Al Balad (Identity crisis).
Lama and Tamara describe their approach to solve these problems is by inserting a familiar program from the area itself capitalizing the local resources healing it from within. This method is referred to as Urban Acupuncture a theory where the city is regarded as the human body. The physical structures that exist in a city regarded as organs in Chinese traditional medicine system, while the activity and movement of people in the city regarded as Qi, energy that flow in the body. The main purpose is maintaining energy flows in the body (city) so it can work properly.
To come up with the optimum program for all these areas we studied all the economic, social and environmental problems and created a matrix where intersecting problems are addressed by a common program forming the main core; a Prototype Urban Plug-in that remains the same and supporting functions are added according to each area’s specifications, these functions differ and are configured differently around the core hence the modular approach.
The pilot site for the project was in Marka:
The area suffers from pollution caused by the factories and waste of workshops sprawling the residential area. Without any intervention, living conditions in the area will continue to get worse. The industrial sprawl will continue causing a clash between these two areas.
The area suffers from pollution caused by the factories and waste of workshops sprawling the residential area. Without any intervention, living conditions in the area will continue to get worse. The industrial sprawl will continue causing a clash between these two areas.
On the long term, an abandonment of the residential areas will occur because of the area’s toxic nature and after the life cycle of the industrial projects end the area will become totally deserted.
Through acupuncture we apply a systematic growth for both forces. Managing the future consequences. The area’s inevitable clash will be replaced with a symbiotic zone where two forces can coexist.
The building is self-sufficient and environmentally independent guaranteeing future growth with an expandable structure.
The post industrial post capitalist approach offers a balance between the production and leisure aspects creating a neutral zone.
Through acupuncture we apply a systematic growth for both forces. Managing the future consequences. The area’s inevitable clash will be replaced with a symbiotic zone where two forces can coexist.
The building is self-sufficient and environmentally independent guaranteeing future growth with an expandable structure.
The post industrial post capitalist approach offers a balance between the production and leisure aspects creating a neutral zone.
The goal is to harness the local environmental resources and use it to transform the construction waste into something of economic value that can benefit the public and cause social empowerment while being environmentally friendly and self sufficient.
The core in Marka serves as an energy provider and environment controller supporting the recycling workshops and public facilities that are linearly configured around it in a pinwheel design linked by the logic of Russian constructivism and construction joints.
The core in Marka serves as an energy provider and environment controller supporting the recycling workshops and public facilities that are linearly configured around it in a pinwheel design linked by the logic of Russian constructivism and construction joints.
The core controls the environment and includes:
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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).
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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