Man Ahyaha-Behbit Workshop Final Report

EDITEDED AND DESIGNED BY NEDAA .H MAHBOUB- OMNEYA MUSTAFA- 2018 BENAA HABITAT- BENAA FOUNDATION- 2018

A BRIEF REPORT OF DESIGN FOR PLAY: A FOUR DAY WORKSHOP HELD IN AYAAT- USING RECYCLED TIERES, VEGETATION AND COLORING ELEMENTS.

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Enhance the vegetation presence to promote a sense of community and combat anxiety.

THE ONSITE PROCESSWORKSHOP INSIGHTS •

THE PROPOSAL'S AIMS AND OBJECTIVES As play contributes to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children, the playground is designed to approach the child's perception to play their way.

• The Areas of Intervention:

a. Emphasize the school's main gates by timber fencing the front facade. b. Boosting a variety of play patterns by construct three playground elements made of recycled tires. c. Use the concrete leveling to work as open theatre for public use. d. Narrative graffiti that reflects the interactive educational identity of the school. e. Coloring the windows' outer frames in primary colors: Red, Blue and Yellow.

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While the child grow, the educational environment comes along as crucial aspect of their emotional development and social well-being. A couple of studies had suggested the reflection of play on promoting healthy child mental development. In light of these considerations, the playground urban intervention designed by BENAA team has been conducted, followed by a construction phase with impressive participation of youth volunteers, local workers and community members of all ages.

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Design Key Terms

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Site

Construction groundwork included but not limited to: o matchmaking the local workers to their assigned tasks, shipping the materials onsite, indicate the play elements with initiate and approximate dimensions followed by the digging process.

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Thursday Preperation

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CHILD- FRIENDLY SPACES

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DOBILITY

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BUDGET- FRIENDLY

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CULTURE- MATCHING

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EASILY- MAINTAINED

❖ GROUP B- Assigned for tires construction: By the end of the day this group was done pouring the concrete foundations, rinsing the tires, and finally allocate them to their indicated spots.

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Friday 14/09/2018: The workshop's first day and volunteers' arrival.

Introductory talk has been given, followed by a brief presentation of the school's background, layers of development and the suggest proposal. In order to show the participants around, a site tour has been conducted by the site engineer, then, to foster a higher work efficiency; the workshop facilitator assigned task owners among the volunteers as well as divide them into smaller work groups. ❖ GROUP A- Assigned for Coloring and vegetation: By the end of the day this group was done mixturing the color values, Masking the windows with painter's tape, as well as coloring the northern façade.

❖ Group C- Assigned for children workshop: This group was taking a good care of the local visiting children as well as mind their safety considerations from the site hazards.

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Saturday 15/09/2018: Vegitation and Coloring

The Construction had continued to flow while task rotations were taking place. By the end of day, - The open theater steps were colored and flourished.

- The angel- wings graffiti was drawn.

- While the flower boxes drilling along the tire's fixation were still running.

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Sunday 16/09/2018: Workshop's Last Day And Graffiti Drawings.

The flower boxes installation was finally completed, in parallel with the fence's preparation including: prime the wooden stems, digging for pouring the concrete foundations, add the waterproofing plastic wrap and backfill it with sand. Finally install the other two tires-applications.

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Studies and analysis

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Levels of participation

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Saturday 22/09/2018: Volunteers Intake.

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flourishing the last play element, the extended balance beams, as well as installing the last wooden bars of the previous game along fixing and planting the flower boxes of the southern façade. Finally, BENAA team with the volunteers had double checked the steel connections of all tires, in parallel with finalizing the main- entrance graffiti, planting the shrubs, apply a generous amount of sand foundation around the tires zones for safety considerations, cleanup the extra backfill as the excavation had been completed.

The project was crucially based on voluntary participation. A call for action was initiated by BENAA team, over 240 applications were received in less than 24 hours, and around 70 applicants were among the accepted candidates. The approximate number of attendees were 25 volunteer of all days apart of BENAA volunteers themselfes who were around 08, and two of the site engineers.

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Workshop Achivements:

By The End Of This project We Delivered A Varity Of Values Such As: ❖ Create child-friendly spaces ❖ Develop the child's mental and physical skills by playing. ❖ Children's lack of interactive play areas in the village was a major intention for the implementation, as we created edutainment spaces within the school. ❖ Provide the motivating enthusiastic factor for children during their day. ❖ Add a cheerful and colorful aspect to the school.

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The playground Elements • • • •

The design elements using recycled tires are: The Caterpillar.

The Tiers Triangel- based.

The Extended Balance beams

Enhance the vegetation presence to promote a sense of community and combat anxiety.

• The Caterpillar.

Some slight differences had been done according to the best fixation applications, thetires orientation, and the time frame.

The Working details: •

The

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Design Key Terms

All the working details are drawn by PLAYGROUNDIDEAS.ORG

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CHILD- FRIENDLY SPACES

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DOBILITY

• The Tiers Triangel- based.

• The Extended Balance beams

Design Key Terms •

CHILD- FRIENDLY SPACES

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DOBILITY

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