2016 | Al Mafraq, Jordan Thesis Project Incremental Housing | Public Space | Urban Design *Recepient of Irving Grossman Prize (more in CV)
The quick-relief, militaristic and temporary approaches in designing refugee camps fail to address the complexities of the rapidly developing ‘city’. Their treatment as isolated islands in a contextual vacuum fails to acknowledge the rich urban and
The refugee camp was looked at as an urban transformer and as a place of control and exchange to establish a theoretical framework that would frame whether the refugee camp is relevant from an architectural and an urban point of view. An essay
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A number of refugee camps were analyzed and studied from a contextual, site, planning, block structure and integration point-of-view to understand their structure, successes and failures.
+ Refugee camps younger than 25 years. From left to right (age, population)  :  Yayladagi Refugee Camp (3-6 yrs, 2.97K), Karkamis Refugee Camp (3-6 yrs, 7.10K), Kilis Refugee Camp (3-6 yrs, 13.42K), Ceyianpilnar Refugee Camp
+ Refugee camps older than 50 years. From left to right ( age, population ):  Shatila (68 yrs, 10-22K), Bourj el-Barajneh (69 yrs, 17.95K), Bourj el-Shemali (62 yrs, 22.79K), Amman New Camp-Wihdat (62 yrs, 51.50K), Marka
The proposed design is catered towards the Syrian refugee situation. A number of sites in Jordan and Turkey (top 2 host countries for Syrian refugees) were considered and the chosen site is situated in northern Jordan close to the city of Al-Mafraq.
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The site was located in an empty lot north of Al Mafraq city, and takes advantage of the existing infrastructure (highways and a train track) in the form of imposed borders. The initial camp configuration houses 20,000 refugees and grows at a 3% ann
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Starting from the temporary tent and ending with a permanent two-story apartment building, the domestic dwellings of the camp evolve in both form and permanence. The tents at the beginning are arranged in the appointed and reconfigured lots to antic
+ Residential block evolution  
   
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