Observation and Site Documentation

INDUSTRIAL AREA BAYADER , WADI ALSEER

Landscape Urbanism :A different vision for Ammanâ€&#x;s Marginalized Landscapes, peripheral voids & leftover infrastructure and spaces

THE AREA CHARECTERISTICS •DIFFERENT BUILDING STYLES : IT DEFERS FROM THE VERY OLD TO THE VERY MODERN DIFFERERNT TYPES OF MATERIALS ; CONCRETE , STONE , AND STEEL

THE AREA CHARECTERISTICS •Absence of homogeneousity

THE AREA CHARECTERISTICS

•Lost spaces

THE AREA CHARECTERISTICS •Simple windows

THE AREA CHARECTERISTICS •Misuse of roofs used as dump

THE AREA CHARECTERISTICS •Bad infrastructure

THE AREA CHARECTERISTICS •Bad infrastructure

Potential project 1 : lost space

King Abdalla II street

Problems and solutions PROBLEMS: -TURKUMANIS : NO JOB OPPORTUNITIES ( CRAFTS ) - AIR POLLUTION -SOUND POLLUTION -GARBAGE IS DUMPED AND BURNT

SOLUTIONS: -PROVIDE JOB OPPORTUNITIES TROUGH KIOSKS -LANDSCAPING

Potential project 2 : derelict building

Problems and solutions PROBLEMS: -Derelict ( awqaf) when a company finishes its rent period , it must demolish everything on the land

-Misused -SEVERELY POLLUTED -SURROUNDED BY FACTORIES

SOLUTIONS: -Renovation with light weight construction -Renovation will eliminate acts of misuse - landscaping will decrease air and sound pollution .

Landscape Urbanism: A different vision for Ammanâ€&#x;sMarginalized Landscapes, Peripheral Voids & Leftover Infrastructure and Spaces ARCH342 Urban Design I Dr. Rami Daher Hanin Shaban Namariq AL-Rawi

Table of Contents • • • • • • • • • •

Process of Reasearch and Ethnography Proposed Site Site Analysis Site Observation Brief history Ethnography Site Documentation Scaled Drawings Stakeholders Patron and Client

Process of Research and Ethnography Stage one: Completed

Proposed Site

Local Vegetable Market

King Abdullah II Street

Solid and Void

Zoning

Light Industry ‫بأحكام خاصة‬ Light Industry Residential D

Panoramic View Al Kalha

Hertz

Future Expansion?

Site Analysis

Foot Path

Water Drainage Wind Natural Heritage

Traffic

Car Movement Vehicular Density

Infrastructure

Water Pipes Electricity Cables

Possible Expansion

Site Observation

Brief History The land is currently owned by the Ministry of „Al-Awqaf‟ and registered as an agricultural land.

It was solely used for agriculture prior to 2004. In 2004, Salem AlTayyem rented the land for ten years to establish a company to sell paints; “‫”المؤسسة العربية للجمستون‬ The company building was constructed in 2004 but due to the violation of certain laws, the company of electricity refused to provide electricity to the land. After the refusal, the company was abandoned.

In 2008, people started to misuse the land as it became a place for: - Getting Drunk - Smoking illegal drugs - Sexual Intercourse - Collecting scrap - Shelter

Ethnography: Car Bumpers

Collecting Data – Gaining Trust…

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Overt observation: – We informed our characters under study about our project with complete honesty.

A Car Bumper…

Where did it come from?

Car repair shops/ empty plots Who brought it here? Why? Turkmen  to sell Where does it go next?

Sahab / Baqa‟a How long does it stay here?

One week / 2-3 months They rent a truck once a week and transport the scraps to sahab or baqa’a

Type of Material

Price (JD per Kilogram)

Metal

0.15

Plastic

0.17

Paper

0.10

Big, heavy pieces of scrap are kept in the site and collected by a big truck every 2/3 months.

The Turkmen collect around 100kgs of scrap daily producing an income of around 150JDs monthly

A Car Bumper… A Life For a Turkman

At eight am every morning, the school bells across Jordan ring, beckoning children to attend their first class. Ali is a different story; every morning, he wakes up to collect scrap and sell it. For us, no child should be deprived of his education, but to Ali this scrap represents his family‟s only source of income; the bread and tea that they eat and drink. For us, Ali is not leading the life that he should be, but according to him, we go to school for twelve years and then university for five years only to end up living a disciplined life of routine, while he spends his days earning money in a variety of ways and learning on the streets what schools can not teach; how a child can carry the burden of responsibility for a whole family and enjoy it .

Ali, 13 – One Man's Garbage is another man's Income…

Omar 16 – I live a life with no regrets…

Site Documentation

Sketches - Plans

Sketches - Elevations

Site Plan

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

North Elevation

North Elevation in Context

East Elevation

East Elevation in Context

South Elevation

South Elevation in Context

West Elevation

West Elevation in Context

Section A-A

Section A-A in Context

Section B-B

Section B-B in Context

Stake Holders Direct Stakeholders: Land Owner (Salem AlTayyem) Entity Green Local Recycling Companies International Recycling Companies Local Workers: - Turkmen - General Volunteers

Indirect Stakeholders: Society as a whole

Potential Project Patron

THE RECYCLING REVOLUTION

A Brief History – Entity Green Training (EGT) Entity Green Training is building its business model on something everyone has and no one wants: garbage. and they've got some grand ideas about how to 'recycle' the profits.

“Where

people see trash, we see opportunity,” -Majed Jaber, manager of the day-to-day running of the company‟s flagship recycling program .

EGT was set up in 2008 as an independent, for-profit construction contractor, to help Habitat for Humanity build affordable homes in Jordan after the international NGO had found it difficult to find the expertise they needed locally. EGT then expanded its‟ business into recycling programs to boost its‟ income. EGT has clinched contracts to collect recyclable waste from luxury hotels, schools and foreign embassies. The terms of agreement differ from organization to organization; a hotel, for example, will usually have an EGT employee earning between JD300-400 a month to work full-time on the premises, collecting and sorting trash.

The waste is then sent to the Ein Al Basha site to be sorted. Most of it is sold on to middle men, who in turn trade it on to factories and businesses at home and abroad for recycling.

Some of the plastic waste winds up in recycling plants in Sahab, southeast of Amman, while the paper and aluminum cans may find their way to places like Dubai and Saudi Arabia. EGT even manages to sell large bags of thrown-away bread for between JD2-3; they‟re dried out and bought by farmers for animal feed.

The British Embassy in Amman has been a pilot site for EGT's recycling efforts .

A sorting table set up by Entity Green Training to teach local „scavangers‟ on how to separate the trash

Plastic Bottles ready for recycling at EGT‟s Ein Al Basha site.

Members of EGT‟s recycling team

Our potential Clients are: Metal Recycling Factory – Sahab Plastic and Paper Recycling Factories – UAE, KSA

And Of course.. We had FUN on the Site!