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DÉSIRÉE CAMPOLO
DÉSIRÉE CAMPOLO Architect part II
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
ACHIEVEMENTS
CURRICULAR WORKS
2013 MA in Architecture with honors (five year course)
2016 Group exhibition “Architecture on the fringes”
SECTION I
/ Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
2012 Sustainable Energy Design CPD training course / Institute of Architects, Reggio Calabria chapter, Italy
2013 Design proposal “The dreamcatcher”, competition “Che genere di citta’?” Competition held by ActionAid and Abitalab University Centre FIRST PRIZE
EXPERIENCE
2008 Competition for an intermodal centre in Oristano, Italy Design competition entry with Ricci & Spaini Architectural Office HONORABLE MENTION
ZARA / Amsterdam, the Netherlands Sales assistant may 2017 - present
E desiree.campolo@gmail.com P +31 0625 548868 In www.linkedin.com/in/desireecampolo
Permanent exhibition and collection at archnet.org/collections/949 / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Research and teaching assistant sep 2014 - dec 17
ITALIAN
Worked on public designs (museums, cultural centres, urban renewals) Design buildings and urban spaces from conceptual design through overall completion of projects ✻ Develop project specifications and drawing submittals during the construction phase and holding communications with contractors on sites ✻ Carry out graphic design for international exhibitions and produce graphic contents for academic publications ✻ Organise and participate to fieldwork activities for the documentation of historical architecture ✻ Coordinate participatory design workshops ✻ Give lectures and presentations addressing different audiences ✻ Develop instructional materials and tutor undergrad students
TEAS Srl - Design & Construction Company / Reggio Calabria, Italy Draughtsperson 2007- 09 Worked on retail and commercial designs ✻ Delineation and support
2. Salut Museum / interpretations
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2017, design proposals
Native speaker
Full ENGLISH
DUTCH
professional profinciency
4. Urban park on fiumara Calopinace / Exposing the edge
Beginner
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2013, design proposal
OS OFFICE 2D & 3D modelling
Windows Word Powerpoint Excel Autocad Sketchup Rhinoceros
Rendering Post-production
Vray Rhinoceros Sketchup Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Sketching
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INTERESTS
Fitness
Playing music
Cooking
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urbanscapes
1. Salalah al-Wusta and Gharbiya, Oman / HMP
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2016, design proposal
2. Misfat al-Abriyin, Oman / TMP 2014, design proposal
Gardening
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2013, environmental design thesis
5. The dreamcatcher / Rose lense
Art & Hand-crafting
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2017, under construction
2016, under construction
TU/e - TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF EINDHOVEN, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
/ Eindhoven, the Netherlands Research assistant / Erasmus internship program jun - sep 2010 Develop methodologies for the analysis and the transformation of urban wastelands and postindustrial sites ✻ Produce instructional materials and graphic contents for academic publications Trainer: dr Irene Curulli, Research title: “Industrial waterfronts: transformation of the canal zones of B5”
1. B1 the eatery / exposing the edge
3. Bait al-Sail cultural centre / inwards and upwards
SKILLS
ArCHIAM - ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE OF INDIA, ARABIA AND THE MAGHREB / Liverpool School of Architecture and Manchester Metropolitan University (until nov 2015)
buildings
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B1 EATERY
REHABILITATION | RESTORATION | REUSE
STATE OF THE PROJECT under construction LOCATION Misfat al-Abriyin, Oman YEAR 2017 CLIENT Ministry of Tourism, Sultanate of Oman TEAM ArCHIAM Research Centre, based at the University of Liverpool ROLE Designer and workshop organizer This rehabilitation, reuse and restoration project is part of a process initiated in 2014 with the Master Plan design for the village of Misfat al-Abriyin (see p. 46). In 2017, the Master Plan propositions ‑ based on a strategy of integration of tourism and heritage management - are taken a further step: the production of detail design for sites located within the old settlement, as well as improvements of the necessary network infrastructure. In Old Misfah, the three sites are key for their heritage value and their income-generating potential: F4 is the main gate converted to info point, A10 a traditional bakery and dwelling converted to bakery and women’s house, and B1 a ruined dwelling converted to diner.
CONCEPT B1 is located at the south-eastern corner of Old Misfah. The remainings of its original fabric consist of part of the northern wall that faces the village, and three charming rooms built on a rocky formation on the western side. The collapse of the southern retaining wall left the core of the building completely exposed towards the oasis. The way the remains were shaped and the peculiar location of the building - on the edge of both the village and the oasis - naturally led to the decision to preserve both visual and physical connection between building and garden, while using the northern wall like a separation element to achieve a high degree of privacy.
REBUILD
OLD TOWN
INTERVENTIONS The actions on B1 start with the rehabilitation of the existing structure, making it safe and rebuilding first and top floors with traditional techniques and local materials ( ). A new lightweight, reinforced concrete addition - composed of retaining wall, first floor platform and vertical connections - visually reconnects the remains ( ). This structure restores the operability of the building without affecting its original nature, as neither the platform nor the staircases load on the stone walls or rock formations ( ). Only one element notches into the thick northern wall, and it is the beam that opens up the main access to the restaurant.
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DISTRIBUTION The concrete structure restores the operability of the building without affecting its original nature. From the hall, overlooking the lush palmgrove, all the facilities of the restaurant are fully accessible. The top terrace of the terraced oasis is two meters below the ground floor, kitchenette, toilet and pantry are on the ground floor, and finally the lounge area and two “family rooms� are on the first floor.
FAMILY ROOMS
TERRACE first floor plan
EATERY
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roof top plan
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BIOCLIMATIC A series of sensitive measures have been addressed in the design for B1. Environmentally, the building is a device designed exclusively for its context. The first floor platform is detached from the surrounding rocks and walls, to allow the cool breezes to cross the main hall. However, if winds become too strong, vertical foldable panels can be spread out and function as a barrier to air and, if needed, to sunshine. B1 is also designed with an integrated system for collection and disposal of rainwater - a re-visitation of the traditional waterspout system.
traditional spout
rain chain
concertina shutters
rain spout rain spout
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FOUNDATIONS fo01 stone work foundation for consolidated wall fo02 cyclopean concrete fo03 concrete bed fo04 damp-proofed course fo05 gravel fo06 plain cement concrete slab, reinforced with metal mesh fo07 reinforced concrete foundation for rebuilt stone wall fo08 drainage pipe fo09 antiroot non-woven fabric
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STRUCTURE s01 stairs reinforced concrete beam 30x45 cm s02 reinforced lightweight concrete slab, thickness = 20 cm s03 local wood beam, round outline, Ø=18 cm s04 retaining concrete wall s05 stone staircase MODERN FLOORS
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f01 epoxy resin - 4 mm
f02 lightweight concrete f03 waterproofing film - 4 mm f04 slope screed - min 40 mm, 2% inclination
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FLOORING
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fl01 pigmented concrete screed flooring fl02 sarooj screed topping course, 5-7 cm fl03 polished earth finishing laid on a morter of sarooj
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fl04 Gravel bed made of reused stones from collapsed walls, granulometry from 5 to 10cm
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WOODEN DECK wd01 wooden slats, 2x9cm, interspace: 1 cm wd02 substructure in wooden slats, 2x9cm, interspace: 45 cm wd03 polyurethane foam WALLS w01 w02 w03 w04 w05 w06 w07
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consolidated traditional rubble stone wall rebuilt stone wall concrete block wall gabion wall, 50 cm thick new stone wall gabion wall cladding reinforced concrete wall
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BALUSTRADE
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b01 welded steel sec�ons, 30x30mm b02 hand rail: American black walnut wood, 50x20mm b03 steel cable, welded to the steel sec�on
LIGHTING li01 li02 li03 li04 li05 li06 li07
LED strip light at floor level LED strip light mounted under the handrail LED strip light mounted under the step LED flood light LED strip light bar LED strip light mounted under the slab PV bollard
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DRAINAGE SYSTEM dr01 rain chain dr02 tradi�onal stone water spout dr03 aluminum water spout s04
DRAINAGE SYSTEM
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d01 filter fabric d02 perforated drainage pipe Ø=120 mm, 2% inclination d03 steel plate, thickness: 13 mm d04 stainless steel pin d05 galvanized rain chain d06 stainless steel pipe d07 welded stainless steel tab to support chain d08 roof drain d09 drain scupper d10 stainless steel pipe, Ø=110 mm
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SALUT MUSEUM DESIGN PROPOSALS
STATE OF THE PROJECT design proposal LOCATION Salut, Oman YEAR 2017 CLIENT Ministry of Tourism, Sultanate of Oman TEAM ArCHIAM Research Centre, based at the University of Liverpool ROLE Designer
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The design proposal addresses the demand for a worldclass museum to celebrate Oman’s glorious past as well as modern Renaissance, which is to be strategically located in one of the most important historical sites of the sultanate: Salut. Thanks to the coexistence of favourable hydrological, geological and topographic conditions, people have resided here in a permanent settlement since the end of the 4th millennium B.C.
THE FIRST PROPOSAL CONCEPT The museum is modelled in such a way to harmoniously blend into the landscape and not to disturb the sight from the archaeological site of Salut. The building is fragmented into two-storey, partially underground volumes highly integrated into the site topography. These irregular trapezoidal volumes are dominated by the elongated rectangular reception block, and arranged in a radial fashion around a central hardscaped courtyard, so as to create viewing corridors that open up to unexpected framed vistas.
LAYOUT The services of the museum are accomodated on the underground and first floors, interconnected by the outdoor mineral garden on the ground level. From here, a sinuous promenade - making reference to Salut’s Iron Age bronze and ceramic snakes, symbol of water management and fertility - winds across the site with changes in levels, inside developing along the exhibition itinerary and outside flanking the rocky hillside as well as the courtyard. The promenade will provide the visitors with a dynamic and seamless experience of both the museum exhibitions and the natural landscape. KEY FEATURES Subtle indoor and outdoor lighting, coupled with material perforations and transparencies, will enhance while re-delineating the night skyline of such a barren site. VOLUMETRIC DIAGRAM
MUSEUM STORAGE
SUNKEN GARDEN
HALL 3
SCENIC SPOTS
COURTYARD COVERED GARDEN
ENTRANCE HALL 1 MAIN HALL
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RECOMMENDED VISITOR ROUTE
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THE SECOND PROPOSAL CONCEPT
The volume is positioned in the valley between two facing hillocks in order to minimise impact on the landscape visible from Salut archaelogical site while guaranteeing its visibility from the museum. The topography of the site itself has been incorporated into the building by retracing the western hillock outline as ground floor desk/coatroom area, and by exposing the eastern hillock side within the first floor exhibition hall.
reception (info points/tickets/coat check), toilets, storage and shop are located on the ground floor, while on the first floor there is the kitchen, toilets, cafĂŠ with play area, administration offices, exhibition hall and covered terrace. A linear promenade, unfolding parallel to the road from the car park to the building, connects parking area and museum. It guides the visitor towards the museum and ends in a dry garden.
LAYOUT
KEY FEATURES Vertical and horizontal timber slatted sunscreens on the east, south and west façades
All programme components are accomodated in a single compact, box-like volume. The double-height main exhibition hall is strategically located at the centre of the building. The entrance podium (which could be used also for outdoor temporary exhibitions or performances), exhibition hall,
are conveniently orientated to block intense sunlight, while skylights permit further light in key spaces.
DRY GARDEN
MAIN HALL
MUSEUM STORAGE
ADMIN
HALL 1
COVERED TERRACE ENTRANCE
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CAFE
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Bait al-Sail
cultural centre REHABILITATION | RESTORATION | REUSE
STATE OF THE PROJECT under construction LOCATION Salalh, Oman YEAR 2016 CLIENT private TEAM ArCHIAM Research Centre, based at the University of Liverpool ROLE Designer TYPE OF PROJECT adaptive reuse Bait al-Sail is an ancient, large merchant house historically owned by the Ghassani family in Salalah, the capital of the Oman’s Dhofar Governorate. In the Master Plan proposal for the quarter al-Wusta (see p. XX), Bait al-Sail hosts the new cultural centre, and forms the core of the Cultural Hub. The design brief puts forward a vision of integrated heritage preservation and development, a relatively new concept in the area that took a long sequence of design proposals to finally sunk in. The result is a definitive design that merges the cultural requirements coming from the Ghassanis with the practical limitations - highlighted by the local contractor - relating to both manpower capabilities as well as the availability of materials in the local market.
Sunken backyard and Nor thern façade
CONCEPT
The design concept for the cultural centre takes into account the social context of Salalah al-Wusta and combines it with the heritage building’s potential as an intersection between cultures. The main thread connecting the three storeys of Bait-al Sail is the “traditional-lifestyle” museum. Functionally, this translates into the distribution of new and old uses through the floors, each one now presenting different levels of privacy: ground floor → public use ; first floor → semi - public use ; second floor → private use . On the Northern side, the collapse of the perimetral rooms is taken as an oppor tunity to state the new values of the cultural centre and act as the new main façade. The building’s fabric remains almost completely unchanged in plan but not in section, as small por tions of floor were removed in order to create ver tical wells and guarantee the natural ventilation of the ground floor.
LAYOUT From the public square, the building is accessible through a sunken cour tyard.
This entrance guarantees communication between the open air cafe-restaurant and the museum’s reception and shop, a connection that can be controlled through an internal door when one or the other activity closes. On the first floor, three existing rooms showcase the archive owned by the Ghassani family, with two more rooms hosting the management offices. At this level the nor thern side has been conver ted into a photographic gallery whose negative space functions as filters firstly between ground and first floor and secondly between the square and the core of the building. The second floor possesses the highest level of privacy and seclusion, as one side of the terrace can be completely shut for private receptions hosted by the owners.
VERTICAL VENTILATION
NEWLY-BUILT NORTHERN WING
HORIZONTAL VENTILATION
COURTYARD
Northern wing, ground floor
Photographic gallery, first floor
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Bait al-Sail, nor thern elevation
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Bait al-Sail, section
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G r o u n d f l o o r, n o r t h e r n a d d i t i o n
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Urban Park on fiumara Calopinace
sustainable design and ecotechnologies for municipal integrated management of waste and mobility
STATE OF THE PROJECT Master design thesis LOCATION Reggio Calabria, Italy YEAR 2013 TEAM solo design ROLE Designer MARK 110/110 cum laude
This design thesis pursues on a parallel trail the research path started by prof. Irene Curulli at the Eindhoven University of Technology, after the short collaboration that took place as part of the Erasmus Placement programme. At the time, Curulli was exploring the transformation of industrial canal zones in the B5 district - a network of five Dutch cities in the South of the Netherlands physically linked together by their water channels - showcasing different conditions in the relationship “canal-industrial area-city centre�. The methodology developped at Tu/e through the case of Helmond finds application in the analysis of a different water stream, the Calopinace fiumara, an intermittent river that suffered dramatically in the most recent urban expansion.
REGGIO CALABRIA
urban fabric
HELMOND
urban sprawl
suburb city centre
natural fabric
countryside bergamot park
parco della rotonda green riverbank villa comunale wetland seaside
FIUMARA CALOPINACE ANALYSIS OF THE DETRACTORS The five urban types identified on the last two kilometres of the river Calopinace are afflicted and differentiated by various major environmental and social concerns. In each of these scenarios the fiumara plays the role of negative common denominator, like a filter that inhibits positive urban qualities from spreading out from the old town. The fiumara is not accessible at any point within the city, neither in the portion - characterised by bergamot cultivations - nor at its mouth ( ), by definition the most rural areas. Its bed is cemented over; high speed roads are built on both banks; leaking pipes run along the walls; and only four bridges (one of which is closed to pedestrians) cross it. MASTER PLAN DESIGN It is necessary to acknowledge that the urban dynamics affecting this stretch of territory extend to the entire district of Reggio Calabria. Therefore, the Master Plan design virtually pushes the boundaries beyond the Calopinace fiumara, proposing the creations of new networks for slow cycle and pedestrian mobility. Simultaneously, existing networks are overhauled, emphasising social values, environmental protection and management, traffic and mobility management, as well as waste and recycling collection. Positive qualities are reaffirmed in the Calopinace fiumara, where those networks are anchored to the ground within shared hubs: the section of the banks changes; the width of vehicular roads is narrowed down to accomodate cycle lanes and pavements as well as to insert more vegetation and create smoother elevation transitions. 30
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THE ENERGY HUB The concept of “healed networks” is illustrated in the section Tu4 - the Energy Hub - where two sites in proximity to the banks are identified and re-designed. The first is the headquarters and depot of the local public transport company ATAM spa, whose facilities are mainly composed of portable buildings. The second is an historical site, the city’s old slaughterhouse, used as a waste sorting station by the local waste management company, Leonia spa. The function of each lot evolves towards social openness and inclusion.
functions
INTERMODAL CENTRE The depot becomes an intermodal centre fitted with functional areas (including bus depot and workshops, two car parking areas, offices, a canteen, and a nursery) and recreational spaces, the most important of which is the public terrace covering the depot and connecting the intermodal centre to the currently unused adjacent botanical garden.
fluxes BUS LANES
BUS PARKING VIEWING TERRACE
MECHANIC
conference hall
pedestrian PATHS
terrace
bookshop snackbar hall
shopS
bus depot
public spaces CAR PATHS
office
CYCLING LANE
nursery
level -1 waiting hall
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PERMEABLE SURFACES parking lot
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atam building
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functions bike parking
bottle return station goods unloading yards
BOTTLE RETURN STATION
green square
GROCERY STORE ECO-DESIGN SHOP
grocery store “km 0”
urban park
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staff parking space
from recycling to eco-design
“urban rooms”
eco-workshops
offices
THE ECO-STATION From small waste sorting centre, the old slaughterhouse lot becomes a recycling area whose final aim is the prevention of waste production. It offers direct services to citizens, such as: a deposit scheme for glass and plastic bottles (the first of its type in Reggio Calabria), a “short distribution chain” grocery store, and an eco-design workshop offering classes open to all.
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THE DREAMCATCHER // L’ACCHIAPPASOGNI URBAN REQUALIFICATION
SOCIAL REHABILITATION
COMPETITION HELD BY ActionAid and Abitalab University Centre STATE OF THE PROJECT Design Proposal LOCATION Reggio Calabria, Italy YEAR 2013 TEAM solo design ROLE Designer RANK 1st prize (1000 euros)
The Scaccioti neighbourhood is part of the poorest district in Reggio Calabria and its inhabitants are subjected every day to the violence of the “faide”. Here, Il seme and ActionAid have implemented a project to keep the streets safe for women, while raising public awareness about gender-based violence in public spaces. The dreamcatcher is a protective charm which families believed would keep their children safe. The proposed design seeks to weave a greater sense of support and community in the area by re-orienting it to the people who use it most: women, children, and the elderly. The strength of the design lays in few operation: cracking away the tarmacked surfaces to leave space for a new linear park, diverse in textures and activities, and litting the darkness of the night.
Heritage Management Plan of Salalah al-Wusta and Salalah Gharbiya
MASTERPLAN | URBAN REHABILITATION
STATE OF THE PROJECT Design proposal LOCATION Salalah, Oman YEAR 2016 CLIENT Ministry of Heritage and culture, Sultanate of Oman TEAM ArCHIAM research centre ROLE Research assistent The city of Salalah, the capital of the Oman’s Dhofar Governorate, has recently witnessed a number of infrastructural improvements that changed its economic and social outlook from rural to modern. This offers great opportunities on one hand, but creates imbalance on the other. The rapid development did not give the old town’s traditional architecture time to keep pace with residential necessities, and as a result structures were abandoned rather than adapted. Salalah’s old town was traditionally divided into three quarters, two of which - al-Wusta and Gharbiya - are the focus of this study. Here, the impoverished migrant community is caught in a trap of social ineguality and ghettoisation, exacerbated by the lack of a functioning urban infrastructure.
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GOOD PRACTICE Drafting the Master Plan for Gharbiya and al-Wusta was a challenging, as it deviated from the government’s normal practices in managing such urban and social emergencies. The goal could not be the demolition and erasure of the vernacular environment in favour of modern high-rise apartment blocks. On the contrary, as much of the original fabric as possible needs to be retained, in order to preserve the settlement’s original morphology, street patterns, dwelling sizes and open spaces, while increasing habitability and bringing
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quality of housing to a modern standard. In this process, the continued habitation by the local communities in the quarters has to be guaranteed. EXISTING TRACES In both al-Wusta and Gharbiya, informal markets are held on most afternoon, offering a variety of goods in different areas of the old town that are not entirely contiguous. These markets form the social backbone of the local community, as they
attract Omani clientele from other quarters. Retaining these markets and providing them with additional facilities was essential to the process of socially reconnecting the Old Quarters of Salalah to the “healthy” urban fabric. NEW DYNAMICS Overall, the Master Plan focuses on generating more episodes to trigger
similar dynamics. In al-Wusta the creation of two hubs, one cultural and one commercial, takes root in few merchant houses that rise on the perimeter of the quarter, functioning as exchange nodes. In Gharbiya, a residential expansion will be necessary to provide the inhabitants with the civic facilities considered essential, such as the availability of medical services.
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Touristic Management and Development Plan of
Misfat al-Abriyin
MASTERPLAN | SUSTAINABLE DESIGN STATE OF THE PROJECT underway LOCATION Misfat al-Abriyin, Oman YEAR 2015 CLIENT Ministry of Tourism, Sultanate of Oman TEAM ArCHIAM research centre ROLE Research assisant Misfat al-Abriyin is an inhabited vernacular settlement in the Jabal Akhdar Range of Oman. Small in size, the village is positioned atop a rocky ridge, 150m above the confluence of two wadis, which provide water for Misfah’s extended oasis. The steep topography of the site drastically influenced the settlement shape, formed in an organic cluster pattern of terraced structures and passageways. The breathtaking beauty of Misfat al-Abriyin started attracting visitors during the Omani Renaissance, and since then the wave of tourists has been increasing in size. The aim of the TDP is to guarantee for Misfah a level of selfsufficiency where touristic revenue sustains the required expenses of the local community, as well as to achieve the sustainable preservation and continued habitation of this vernacular settlement.
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CONTEXT The community of Misfah is phisically composed by two separate entities. One is the harah (Old Village), the vernacular settlement located above the wadi, the other is the modern Misfah, which emerged after 1975 and spread on the cliff to the south of old Misfah. The two are connected by a 600m-long road along which there is almost no development. The condition of Misfat al-Abriyin in 2014 is overall quite good, but some form of intervention is needed for nearly every building, ranging from basic maintenance to restoration and complete rebuilding of structures. DESIGN
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The Master Plan is based on a strategy of integration of tourism with the
management of Misfah’s heritage as well as the need for the village to strengthen its economic pillars – agriculture, animal farming and crafts. The tourist experience would be diversified by integrating and further developing traditional modes of production into the 21st century. Four “quarters” are identified within the Old Village’s perimetre: three of them are focal activity areas with emphasis on food, agriculture and farming, whereas the remaining one is a hub supporting the Misfah Residents’ Cooperative and the tourism infrastructure. The Master Plan also includes the creation of the Misfah Visitor Centre, a buffer point consisting of ticket desks, a coach and car park, tourist information point, shops and resting facilities, which will act as a filter preventing all tourist vehicular access to the village.
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