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A collection of work from my work at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design - Toronto
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SORAURENPARKSTUDIO I
YYZSTUDIO II
RISINg TIDEScOmPETITION
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What is considered ‘just another city park’, Sorauren Park is situated in the dynamic neighbourhood of Parkdale. The park however is not reflective of the urbanity that surrounds it. While an active park, its banal nature could be attributed to its one con-tinuous surface of lawn. Examining how a change in surface, topography, and material use could yield new activities on site.
If urbanity is the embodiment of tension in land use and the dynamic activities and spaces it creates. Then materials, topog-raphy, and surface could create dynamic tensions in a park.
Sorauren Park attempts to reflect the interest created by this tension through the juxtaposi-tion of different materials and surfaces that allow for diverse activates to take place side by side, while also achieving a hydrological and ecological function that increases biodi-versity on the site.
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As one of the most representative sites of urbanization in the 21st century, the Airport Landscape Project therefore calls for the reconsideration of the role and the presence of airport sites as important public landscapes whose future - while indeterminate largely due to the forces of globalization and regionalization - can only be strengthened by a robust and sustainable ecological infrastructure.
The main goal of this project is to propose a set of design strategies and specific landscape interventions for the airport and the urban-side peripheries. The objectives underlying these interventions must actively engage the site of the Airport as a public landscape. The industrial areas surrounding Pearson International Airport could be characterized as typical and anonymous; an environment that could be anywhere in North America. Yet it is a logistical landscape that is very much related to the operations of the airport.
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Furniture Warehouse-Universe Import
Power Packaging
Ardron – Mackie Ltd
Sleever International
TRIGISTIX / Ac-cord Logistics
FedEx
Dal’s Fuel Injection and turbo Ltd
Quick X Group of companies
Metro Build-ing Ma-terials
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ACS Academy
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CanonRockcity Cartage
TenCorr Packaging
Marcan Group
Tryhard Solutions
Buntien ReidVW Source
Global Distribution
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DainoLite Ltd.Assured Packag-ing Inc
Atlas Van
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LowenYokohama
Espon Heater System
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BBS Equipment Sales Unitech Consumers Electronics
Kwik Kopy Alpha Industry Limited
Fasting House Construction
Simcoe Steel Ltd Gateway WireCan-Am hy-draulics
Jay Shah Foods Ltd
Prestige Plastics
Pearlon Hair onn HairPeaPeaProductiontionProduTarten Equipmentuipme
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East Coast Printing
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InkLink Group
Best Western Hotel
Strungeo
Rent Trailer Repairs Co.
Tenteck Automation
Puralator
Accentra Kenestic Prescott
Pro-Poly
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GN Packaging ALE Martin
GroupOE Quality
TaurusHeinwein Machines
LaugenDrummond
KenwoodCompass Flooring
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Asia Imports Ltd
United Van Lines
TNT
PHCP Inc Hair Standard
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Century GroupNewcomb SpringHighline Gift Ltd.
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Fill Landform Analysis _ Potential Slope Cover and Consequential ActivityTopography Conditions
At the most basic level, surface topography can be considered a functional element. Like walls, it can support, connect or enclose. As a device, topography can also form space or dene a territory. It can delineate horizontal space to organize, enable or control ow (such as a curb, a corner, a stair, a street, an intersection, a slope, a eld, a hill, a foundation, a fault, or an escarpment). As a material layer, surface topography has thickness. It can be thin and light, or thick and rich. By virtue of its shape and structure, surface topography can be a single object, or it can be a physical space.
Folding, wrapping, bending, tilting, pouring, sinking, loading, scoring, cutting, excavating, or interrupting a surface can make it both programmable, occupiable and inhabitable. Surface topography can be animate or responsive. Its identity and utility can transform through time. It can move, grow and change. It carries with it the ability to form a place. Surface topography is therefore not just a horizontal or vertical unit; it is a live conguration that can produce space and in some instances, mark place.
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Fill Area A_04Volume 374,5621.09 m3
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Fill Area C_11Volume 19,538.68 m3
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Fill Landform Analysis _ Potential Slope Cover and Consequential ActivityTopography Conditions
At the most basic level, surface topography can be considered a functional element. Like walls, it can support, connect or enclose. As a device, topography can also form space or dene a territory. It can delineate horizontal space to organize, enable or control ow (such as a curb, a corner, a stair, a street, an intersection, a slope, a eld, a hill, a foundation, a fault, or an escarpment). As a material layer, surface topography has thickness. It can be thin and light, or thick and rich. By virtue of its shape and structure, surface topography can be a single object, or it can be a physical space.
Folding, wrapping, bending, tilting, pouring, sinking, loading, scoring, cutting, excavating, or interrupting a surface can make it both programmable, occupiable and inhabitable. Surface topography can be animate or responsive. Its identity and utility can transform through time. It can move, grow and change. It carries with it the ability to form a place. Surface topography is therefore not just a horizontal or vertical unit; it is a live conguration that can produce space and in some instances, mark place.
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The location of 400+ industries in the area were listed, organized, and sized according to their visual presence. Once names were given to the site, a legible and clear identity surfaced in this rather obscure and anonymous landscape. This process highlighted the residual open and unpaved open spaces around the airport lands as sites of potential intervention. Recognizing that the ideal means of experiencing this newly surfaced industrial identity is to physically rise above it. Existing topographic grade heights were mapped out. The existing functions on site require that proposed topographic manipulations adhere to aerodrome restrictions.
Originally proposed to be extruded at a ratio of 1:3 to maximum height, the proposed landforms are “chopped” off by the aerodrome resulting in a series of potential fill spaces. Once the fill-areas are placed in their industrial context, these landforms allow for a physical, visual, and ecological relationship to be established between the industrial-logistical landscape and a newly crafted and defined public realm. Taking the premise that fill areas would not have prescribed specific programming, specific user and location defined activities would eventually take place. These diagrams shows a hypothetical manifestation of possible conditions and slope cover material.
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Fill Landform Analysis _ Potential Slope Cover and Consequential ActivityTopography Conditions
At the most basic level, surface topography can be considered a functional element. Like walls, it can support, connect or enclose. As a device, topography can also form space or dene a territory. It can delineate horizontal space to organize, enable or control ow (such as a curb, a corner, a stair, a street, an intersection, a slope, a eld, a hill, a foundation, a fault, or an escarpment). As a material layer, surface topography has thickness. It can be thin and light, or thick and rich. By virtue of its shape and structure, surface topography can be a single object, or it can be a physical space.
Folding, wrapping, bending, tilting, pouring, sinking, loading, scoring, cutting, excavating, or interrupting a surface can make it both programmable, occupiable and inhabitable. Surface topography can be animate or responsive. Its identity and utility can transform through time. It can move, grow and change. It carries with it the ability to form a place. Surface topography is therefore not just a horizontal or vertical unit; it is a live conguration that can produce space and in some instances, mark place.
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The antithesis of our project, which sees the demise of topography in suburbia, will be a driving force for the creation of topography on our site, and the very source of its establishment. 04
In the process of suburban subdivision construction, the top 9” of earth are deemed unstable and unfit. The land is flattened and topography is eliminated. These 9” of overburden and top soil removed from earth works projects are piled in high berms across suburban sites in the GreaterToronto Area and are shipped to landfills.
This “extra” material from surrounding municipalities are proposed to be the materials used to construct the topographic interventions in the industrial district. The richness of top soil means that the topographic interventions will be able to support higher diversity of biomass, adding to the ecological integrity of what could be considered an industrial area in a poor environmental state.
Since soil overburden volumes will be diminishing over the next few decades, it is proposed that the fill areas requiring larger volumes of material to be constructed first. As less material becomes available, smaller fill spaces will be created accordingly.
Aerodrome Cut Heights and Dis-tance from Runway
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Adding to the dynamism of this area, is the visual night effect created by the blending of runway lights and the industrial area. Aerodrome Cut Heights and Dis-tance from Runway
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Topography as a conditioner of human activity and physical form is evident in the endless possibilities that could take place on these fill areas and the consequential activities that these forms would yield. These possibilities are all dependent on orientation, material stability, and slope angles.
Making spacial and visual connections between the land, the airport, and the industry in order to create a landscape that is both operational and public. Based on their location along the axis of the runway, two significant intervention areas were chosen, The Assumption Cemetery Fill Area and the Runway Cut viewing platform.
ASSUMPTION CEMETERYThe fill area “ramp” enforces an axial relationship with the airport and its operations. By creating a link between the industrial area, the airport, and the topography, a new open space typology is created. 04
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At the most basic level, surface topography can be considered a functional element. Like walls, it can support, connect or enclose. As a device, topography can also form space or define a territory. It can delineate horizontal space to organize, enable or control fl ow (such as a curb, a corner, a stair, a street, an intersection, a slope, a field, a hill, a foundation, a fault, or an escarpment). As a material layer, surface topography has thickness. It can be thin and light, or thick and rich. By virtue of its shape and structure, surface topography can be a single object, or it can be a physical space.
Folding, wrapping, bending, tilting, pouring, sinking, loading, scoring, cutting, excavating, or interrupting a surface can make it both programmable, occupiable and inhabitable. Surface topography can be animate or responsive. Its identity and utility can transform through time. It can move, grow and change. It carries with it the ability to form a place. Surface topography is therefore not just a horizontal or vertical unit; it is a live configuration that can produce space and in some instances, mark place.
Existing topography, especially along the creek systems, can be easily integrated with the proposed conditions and is enhanced by seasonal change.
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Taking the premise that fill areas would not have prescribed programming, specific user and location defined activities would eventually take place.
Topography as a conditioner of human activity and physical form is evident in the endless possibilities that could take place on these fill areas.
Is it then possible to think of the lands that surround the airport as a new typology of public space? Could one think of Topography is an essential building medium? Could all this lend itself to the creation of a legible landscape that relates to the airport and help surface the existing identity of its surrounding industrial-logistical lands?
IMPLEMENTATION1.INITIATECITIZENS STAGE OCCUPATION. PUBLIC SPACE (RE)CLAIMED.
2. TERRITORIZE CITIZENS MARK THEIR SPACE. THE GROUND PLANE IS TRANSFORMED. PARKING TRACES ARE ERASED.
3. STRUCTUREFILL FROM LOCAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS ARRIVES. MOUNDS ARE FORMED.
4. ANIMATEPROJECTION / EXHIBITION SCREEN ‘INSTALLED’.
5. SEEDLOCAL ‘GREEN THUMBS’ ARRIVE AND LANDSCAPE SPACE.
6. TERTIARY ELEMENTSSEATING / LIGHTING / PROJECTOR / ETC. ARRIVE.
PUBLIC-IZATIONINPROG-RESSIMPLEMENTATION
1.INITIATECITIZENS STAGE OCCUPATION. PUBLIC SPACE (RE)CLAIMED.
2. TERRITORIZE CITIZENS MARK THEIR SPACE. THE GROUND PLANE IS TRANSFORMED. PARKING TRACES ARE ERASED.
3. STRUCTUREFILL FROM LOCAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS ARRIVES. MOUNDS ARE FORMED.
4. ANIMATEPROJECTION / EXHIBITION SCREEN ‘INSTALLED’.
5. SEEDLOCAL ‘GREEN THUMBS’ ARRIVE AND LANDSCAPE SPACE.
6. TERTIARY ELEMENTSSEATING / LIGHTING / PROJECTOR / ETC. ARRIVE.
PUBLIC-IZATIONINPROG-RESS
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It cannot be contested that the spatial quali-ties of our surroundings hold the ability to evoke response and impact deeply all those whom experience it. This project thereby as-serts the public’s proprietary right over these surroundings and their right to collectively determine what this experience will be. It (re)claims, for the public, all neglected open spaces, as sites of intervention and oppor-tunity. We define the assertion of this right through overt public action as the process of ‘Public-isation.’
300-312 Queen St. W. is a 98 space, asphalt parking lot fronting onto one of Toronto’s busiest and most public streets. This site is embraced under the mantra of Public-isation, as a site of experimentation. It is not only the ideal public proving ground of our claim, but an ideal and long overdue location for open, public hardscape. The design is straightfor-ward and simple. It is suggests a collective public act that shuns professional and city involvement. The design is intended as low to no budget and maintenance-free. It is a challenge to the conventions of public parks, to the equation of high budget and high qual-ity. It is a reconception of the act of creating public space.
partners: Drew Adams - Christine Fang March10
“Great civic design comes from simple ideas and bold convictions. Overt-Publicisation puts ego aside and relies on the simple yet powerful belief that the design and use of public spaces should be collective action and expression. To me this is the most powerful statement emanating from the thinkToronto competition ”
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“ . . . (T)he spectacle of the city is not simply to be registered in the monstrous objectification of the capitalist public life, but in the volatil-ity of the crowd . . . which devours, consumes, and entertains itself like a great animal, sensual and musical,relentless, excitable, threat-ening.”
Alan BlumThe Imaginative Structure of the City
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It cannot be contested that the spatial qualities of our surroundings hold the ability to evoke response and impact deeply all those whom experience it. This project thereby asserts the public’s proprietary right over these surroundings and their right to collectively determine what this experience will be. It (re)claims, for the public, all neglected open spaces, as sites of intervention and opportunity. We defi ne the assertion of this right through overt public action as the process of ‘Public-isation.’
300-312 Queen St. W. is a 98 space, asphalt parking lot fronting onto one of Toronto’s busiest and most public streets. This site is embraced under the mantra of Public-isation, as a site of experimentation. It is not only the ideal public proving ground of our claim, but an ideal and long overdue location for open, public hard-scape. The design is straightforward and simple. It is suggests a collective public act that shuns professional and city involvement. The design is intended as low to no budget and maintenance-free. It is a challenge to the conventions of pub-lic parks, to the equation of high budget and high quality. It is a reconception of the act of creating public space.
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In the second part, methods of representing qualitative and quantitative processes on an urban site were conducted in order to com-municate new and potentially unrealizedsystems of interaction. The representation method were informed by the processes and subject matter of the analysis. The mapping of the system had to be rigorously detailed and densely layered with the specifics of the existing systems in order to make clear the significant relationships.
After identifying existing factors and the pat-terns that define the site, a clear relationship emerged between the activity in the square and weather patterns, as well as the location of elements on the site (such as canopies and stages) in the annual distribution of people.
The project then identifies sites of new potential structuring elements to reveal new relationships and conditions to re-define form and space. Choosing a strategic site of intervention meant the transformation of the site involved the manipulation of site pro-pensities, where there is cooling water in the summer, there is warming fire in winter.
This then determined an increment of mea-sure addressing a period of time that cor-responds to the orchestration of activity on the site (hourly, daily, and yearly). Recently transformed, Dundas Square is already defined as an event space, a commercial media frenzy, a site constantly in flux.
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This project attempts to investigate an new role for infrastructure in the creation of urban neighbourhoods. Currently seen as the force behind the demise of the area, the hydrological and circulation infrastructures are used as organizational tools to shift the frame of reference and be able to seem them as opportunities rather than liabilities.
This project is an example of how a master-plan can no longer be an all embracing solution, but instead it is a process of implementation and a framework of reference. In this case the renewed instrumentality of landscape is to enable function.The site is a functioning matrix of connective infrastructural layers that organizes objects (such as buildings) and spaces (such as parks) within a dynamic process;
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Re-organizing the Gardiner Expressway so that it is no longer a barrier, but a dynamic component of the site’s experience. 13
Taking the premise that infrastructure on the site - hydrology and circulation - are the main reasons behind the demise of the western waterfront, an attitude of turning them from a liability into an opportunity had to be taken. The first step had to be the reorganization of the Gardiner Expressway and turning it from the divider of the site to the seam that organizes all elements around it.
While the main structuring elements of the project are the circulation and hydrological infrastructures, their process of investigation ended up enforcing a dynamic nature to the spatial distribution and typology of the built form, as well as the establishment of a strong “re-connection” to the surrounding established communities. Through their organization, a series of inimitable spaces emerged, and the potentiality for the creation of a new urban form.
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The urban fabric is in direct contact with the lake, animating the site all year round
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sixties aPartmentblock
Point tower+ Podium
Parkdale-etobicoke building tyPologies + oPen sPace relation
building enVeloPe+ courtyard
private | front + back yard
private | front + back yard
private | backyardspublic | communal green
private | backyardsprivate | parking
private | parking
public | un-used open space
private | communal rec space
public | direct building relation to open spacedirect open space relation to landscape
DEVELOPABLE AREAS
PROPOSED BUILDINGS
open space
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Linkage Open Space
courtyard systemProPosed oPen sPace
Open Space SyStem
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urban form
Hydrological infrastructure
Post-war Homes
Victorian Homes
townHomes
VictorianaPartments
Queen street mixed use
sixties aPartmentblock
Point tower+ Podium
Parkdale-etobicoke building tyPologies + oPen sPace relation
building enVeloPe+ courtyard
private | front + back yard
private | front + back yard
private | backyardspublic | communal green
private | backyardsprivate | parking
private | parking
public | un-used open space
private | communal rec space
public | direct building relation to open spacedirect open space relation to landscape
DEVELOPABLE AREAS
PROPOSED BUILDINGS
open space
Existing OpEn spacE
Linkage Open Space
courtyard systemProPosed oPen sPace
Open Space SyStem
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urban form
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The use of landscape themes and techniques in this project has had a particular applicability in organizing relationships among physical elements and activities within a dynamic system.Open Space linkage Open Space SyStem
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torontowestern
Stepping away from the piecemeal development of the Toronto waterfront, this plan looks at a renewed instrumentality of landscape to enable function. The site is a functioning matrix of connective infrastructural layers that organizes objects (such as buildings) and spaces (such as parks) within a dynamic process; these processes set out new relationships and interactions to create unique and distinctive urban neighbourhoods. The open space system successfully assumes different functions and geometries as changing circumstance. The plan for the area involves components of far-reaching interpretations of social and historical realities of the site. This then allows for a greater connection to the urban fabric and the processes of the landscape it occupies.osals.
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PARKDALE
RETROFIT STORM WATER SYSTEM
THE QUEENSWAY
GARDINER - RAIL TRENCH
NEW COMMUNITY
LAKE ONTARIO
LAND BRIDGE
LAKESHORE BOULEVARD
1 Martin Goodman Trail + Boardwalk2 Public Plaza3 Connecting Channel / Swale4 Resturant / Cafe5 Accessible Open Space6 Continuous Community-Wide Channel7 Pathway
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THE QUEENSWAYHIGH PARK WETLANDS
PARKDALE
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THE QUEENSWAY
GARDINER - RAIL TRENCH
NEW COMMUNITY
LAKE ONTARIO
LAND BRIDGE
LAKESHORE BOULEVARD
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To mitigate the issues of the combined sewer system which pollutes the waters of the Humber Bay, a form of treatment for the hydrological system takes the form of a hydro-retrofit within the urban fabric of existing and proposed areas. Due to its open space provisions and spatial organization in the urban fabric - the modernist apartment blocks, north of the highway, are the best option for hydrological retrofitting, while a courtyard building typology for the proposed structures allows for stronger linkages to a hydrological infrastructure and and an open space system.
The renewed system then creates a legible network which physically connects the areas of the western waterfront while allowing people to engage directly with the operations and seasonality of their surrounding landscape
hydro-retrofit
toronto westernwaterfront
Post-war Homes
Victorian Homes
townHomes
VictorianaPartments
Queen street mixed use
sixties aPartmentblock
Point tower+ Podium
Parkdale-etobicoke building tyPologies + oPen sPace relation
building enVeloPe+ courtyard
private | front + back yard
private | front + back yard
private | backyardspublic | communal green
private | backyardsprivate | parking
private | parking
public | un-used open space
private | communal rec space
public | direct building relation to open spacedirect open space relation to landscape
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WetlandsBuckwheat PolygonumCat Tail Typhus angus folia
Queen Anne’s Lace Daucas carotaTimothy Phleum pratense
Canadian Yew Taxus CanadensisCommon Reed Phragmi es australis
Easter White Cedar Thuja occidentalisFragrant SumacRhus aroma ca
Honey Suckle Lonicera periclymenumPoplar Saplings Populus spp.
Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericeaStag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
MeadowsBu� on Bush Cephalanthus occidentalisChoke Cherry Prunus virginiana
Dense Blazing Star Chamaelirium luteumGolden Alexanders Zizia aurea
Joe Pye Weed Eupatorium maculatumNew England Aster Aster novae-angliaeNew Jersey Tea Ceanothus americanus
Chokecherry Prunus virginiana Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea Stag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
Rock Elm Ulmus thomasiiAsh Fraxinus spp.
Early Successional ForestLake Ontario
Mimico Creek Estuary
Trail
Lake OntarioMimico Creek Estuary
Trail Open Lawn
Balsam Poplar Populus balsamiferaBlack Ash Fraxinus nigra
Co� onwood Populus deltoidsRed Maple Acer rubrum
Silver Maple Acer saccharinumTrembling Aspen Populus tremuloides
White Birch Betula papyriferaSwamp White Oak Quercus bicolor
Willow Salix spp. Yellow Birch
Betula alleghaniensis
Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnateDowny Serviceberry Amelanchier Ca-
nadensisCommon Reed Phragmi es australis
Easter White Cedar Thuja occidentalisEuonymus Euonymus
Grey Stem Dogwood Comus racemosaHoney Suckle Lonicera periclymenum
Oak Saplings QuercusPussy Willow Salix discolor
Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericeaStag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
Black Pine Pinus nigraManitoba Maple Acer negundo
Russian Olive Elaeagnus angus foliaSiberian Elm Ulmus pumila
Tamarack Larix laricinaWhite Ash Fraxinus americana
White Pine Pinus strobusWhite Willow Salix alba
Waterfront DriveTrailMimico Creek SWM ltra� on
Paved RoadParking Lot
Fish Habitat
Lake Ontario
Mimico Creek SWM ltra� on
Emergency Access Road
Early Successional Forest
Fish Habitat
Lake Ontario
Wetlands
Waterfront DriveTrail
Chokecherry Prunus virginiana Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea Stag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
Rock Elm Ulmus thomasiiAsh Fraxinus spp.
Balsam Poplar Populus balsamiferaBlack Ash Fraxinus nigra
Chokecherry Prunus virginianaRed Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea
Spice Bush Lindera benzoin Stag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
Ash Fraxinus spp.Balsam Poplar Populus balsamifera
Co� onwood Populus deltoids
Ridge ForestBuckwheat Polygonum
Cat Tail Typhus angus foliaQueen Anne’s Lace Daucas carota
Timothy Phleum pratenseCanadian Yew Taxus Canadensis
Common Reed Phragmi es australis
Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach
Co� onwood Populus deltoidsRed Maple Acer rubrum
Silver Maple Acer saccharinumTrembling Aspen Populus tremuloides
White Birch Betula papyriferaSwamp White Oak Quercus bicolor
Willow Salix spp. Yellow Birch Betula alleghaniensis
Red Maple Acer rubrumRock Elm Ulmus thomasii
Silver Maple Acer saccharinumTrembling Aspen Populus tremuloides
White Birch Betula papyriferaWillow Salix spp.
Yellow Birch Betula alleghani-ensis
Easter White Cedar Thuja occidentalisFragrant SumacRhus aroma ca
Honey Suckle Lonicera periclymenumPoplar Saplings Populus spp.
Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericeaStag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
Lake Ontario
Wetlands
Waterfront DriveTrail
Buckwheat PolygonumCat Tail Typhus angus folia
Queen Anne’s Lace Daucas carotaTimothy Phleum pratense
Canadian Yew Taxus CanadensisCommon Reed Phragmi es australis
Easter White Cedar Thuja occidentalisFragrant SumacRhus aroma ca
Honey Suckle Lonicera periclymenum
MeadowsBu� on Bush Cephalanthus occidentalisChoke Cherry Prunus virginiana
Dense Blazing Star Chamaelirium luteumGolden Alexanders Zizia aurea
Joe Pye Weed Eupatorium maculatumNew England Aster Aster novae-angliaeNew Jersey Tea Ceanothus americanus
Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnate
Habitat Islands Habitat IslandsWetlands
Trailcreek
Pebble Beach
Downy Serviceberry Amelanchier Ca-nadensis
Common Reed Phragmi es australisEaster White Cedar Thuja occidentalis
Euonymus EuonymusGrey Stem Dogwood Comus racemosaHoney Suckle Lonicera periclymenum
Oak Saplings QuercusPussy Willow Salix discolor
Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericeaStag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
Poplar Saplings Populus spp.Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea
Stag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
Black Pine Pinus nigraManitoba Maple Acer negundo
Russian Olive Elaeagnus angus foliaSiberian Elm Ulmus pumila
Tamarack Larix laricinaWhite Ash Fraxinus americana
White Pine Pinus strobusWhite Willow Salix alba
WetlandsBuckwheat PolygonumCat Tail Typhus angus folia
Queen Anne’s Lace Daucas carotaTimothy Phleum pratense
Canadian Yew Taxus CanadensisCommon Reed Phragmi es australis
Easter White Cedar Thuja occidentalisFragrant SumacRhus aroma ca
Honey Suckle Lonicera periclymenumPoplar Saplings Populus spp.
Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericeaStag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
MeadowsBu� on Bush Cephalanthus occidentalisChoke Cherry Prunus virginiana
Dense Blazing Star Chamaelirium luteumGolden Alexanders Zizia aurea
Joe Pye Weed Eupatorium maculatumNew England Aster Aster novae-angliaeNew Jersey Tea Ceanothus americanus
Chokecherry Prunus virginiana Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea Stag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
Rock Elm Ulmus thomasiiAsh Fraxinus spp.
Early Successional ForestLake Ontario
Mimico Creek Estuary
Trail
Lake OntarioMimico Creek Estuary
Trail Open Lawn
Balsam Poplar Populus balsamiferaBlack Ash Fraxinus nigra
Co� onwood Populus deltoidsRed Maple Acer rubrum
Silver Maple Acer saccharinumTrembling Aspen Populus tremuloides
White Birch Betula papyriferaSwamp White Oak Quercus bicolor
Willow Salix spp. Yellow Birch
Betula alleghaniensis
Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnateDowny Serviceberry Amelanchier Ca-
nadensisCommon Reed Phragmi es australis
Easter White Cedar Thuja occidentalisEuonymus Euonymus
Grey Stem Dogwood Comus racemosaHoney Suckle Lonicera periclymenum
Oak Saplings QuercusPussy Willow Salix discolor
Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericeaStag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
Black Pine Pinus nigraManitoba Maple Acer negundo
Russian Olive Elaeagnus angus foliaSiberian Elm Ulmus pumila
Tamarack Larix laricinaWhite Ash Fraxinus americana
White Pine Pinus strobusWhite Willow Salix alba
Waterfront DriveTrailMimico Creek SWM ltra� on
Paved RoadParking Lot
Fish Habitat
Lake Ontario
Mimico Creek SWM ltra� on
Emergency Access Road
Early Successional Forest
Fish Habitat
Lake Ontario
Wetlands
Waterfront DriveTrail
Chokecherry Prunus virginiana Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea Stag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
Rock Elm Ulmus thomasiiAsh Fraxinus spp.
Balsam Poplar Populus balsamiferaBlack Ash Fraxinus nigra
Chokecherry Prunus virginianaRed Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea
Spice Bush Lindera benzoin Stag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
Ash Fraxinus spp.Balsam Poplar Populus balsamifera
Co� onwood Populus deltoids
Ridge ForestBuckwheat Polygonum
Cat Tail Typhus angus foliaQueen Anne’s Lace Daucas carota
Timothy Phleum pratenseCanadian Yew Taxus Canadensis
Common Reed Phragmi es australis
Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach
Co� onwood Populus deltoidsRed Maple Acer rubrum
Silver Maple Acer saccharinumTrembling Aspen Populus tremuloides
White Birch Betula papyriferaSwamp White Oak Quercus bicolor
Willow Salix spp. Yellow Birch Betula alleghaniensis
Red Maple Acer rubrumRock Elm Ulmus thomasii
Silver Maple Acer saccharinumTrembling Aspen Populus tremuloides
White Birch Betula papyriferaWillow Salix spp.
Yellow Birch Betula alleghani-ensis
Easter White Cedar Thuja occidentalisFragrant SumacRhus aroma ca
Honey Suckle Lonicera periclymenumPoplar Saplings Populus spp.
Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericeaStag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
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toronto western
Lake Ontario
Wetlands
Waterfront DriveTrail
Buckwheat PolygonumCat Tail Typhus angus folia
Queen Anne’s Lace Daucas carotaTimothy Phleum pratense
Canadian Yew Taxus CanadensisCommon Reed Phragmi es australis
Easter White Cedar Thuja occidentalisFragrant SumacRhus aroma ca
Honey Suckle Lonicera periclymenum
MeadowsBu� on Bush Cephalanthus occidentalisChoke Cherry Prunus virginiana
Dense Blazing Star Chamaelirium luteumGolden Alexanders Zizia aurea
Joe Pye Weed Eupatorium maculatumNew England Aster Aster novae-angliaeNew Jersey Tea Ceanothus americanus
Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnate
Habitat Islands Habitat IslandsWetlands
Trailcreek
Pebble Beach
Downy Serviceberry Amelanchier Ca-nadensis
Common Reed Phragmi es australisEaster White Cedar Thuja occidentalis
Euonymus EuonymusGrey Stem Dogwood Comus racemosaHoney Suckle Lonicera periclymenum
Oak Saplings QuercusPussy Willow Salix discolor
Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericeaStag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
Poplar Saplings Populus spp.Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea
Stag Horn Sumac Rhus typhina
Black Pine Pinus nigraManitoba Maple Acer negundo
Russian Olive Elaeagnus angus foliaSiberian Elm Ulmus pumila
Tamarack Larix laricinaWhite Ash Fraxinus americana
White Pine Pinus strobusWhite Willow Salix alba
waterfront
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A new urban form where people use the exposed hydrological system and connecting directly with the operaitonal and seasonal dynamics of the landscape. 1311
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CCA ACTIONSINSTALLATION
CHALLENGE
WINNER
An intervention that takes place on a wintry University of Toronto campus. This project was meant to turn an everyday winter utility scene into an opportunity.Snow mounds that are several feet high and several feet wide en-croach on the public right-of-way and take up valuable space from our public realm for several months a year. This action demanded that we reclaim some of that space back as a public utility, and find opportunities in our street elements that we overlook in our every-day life; especially in a winter city.
An intervention that takes place on a wintry University of Toronto campus. This project was meant to turn an everyday winter utility scene into an op-portunity.Snow mounds that are several feet high and several feet wide encroach on the public right-of-way and take up valuable space from our public realm for several months a year. This action demanded that we reclaim some of that space back as a public utility, and find opportunities in our street elements that we overlook in our everyday life; especially in a winter city.
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This option studio called upon students (in teams of 2, one landscape architect and one architect) to envision a new reality for desert tourism in the Moroccan Sahara. The Town of Merzouga, located in the Southern edge of the country, a few kilometers from the Algerian border, is home to some of the tallest and most impressive sand dunes in the Sahara Desert. Not long after the establishment of the first hotel in Merzouga, European and Arab tourists began flocking to Merzouga; and mass tourism, with all its shortcomings, began to change the face of the area. Theme hotel cliche’s built on floodplains, un-sustainable water usage in the form of swimming pools, and intense motorized activities on the dunes began to challenge both the ecological integrality of the area and the character of the site itself.
With a mandated program of an eco-lodge and a golf course, this studio required the creative re-interpretation of activities deemed “un-sustainable” in this context. The design process led us to re-imagine potential for new toursim occupation and inhabitation in extreme climatic environments. My partner and I chose a site of intense parody, a site where water is ephemer-ally abundant and life cycles flourishes in the heart of the desert
Merzouga - Moroccooption studio
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By allowing terracing and certain openings within the dam itself, new spaces for occupation and circulation emerge. Taking into consider-ation different levels of water in the lake depends on the time of year; grey water from the eco-lodge then gets circulated through the infra-structure to allow for a secondary system of wetlands to be interlaced with existing site processes and ecolgies.
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employee suites
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pro-shop
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2_program populationprogram organization according to distance,access, sequence
3_push & pullmanipulate formaccording to sun, wind,and view orientation
4_performative perforationsperforate form toallow for water in�ltration
5_stretchstretch form to allowfor water processing,wetland remediationof hotel grey water,and public access
6_articulationre�ne programmaticspaces and structures
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SITE PLANHABITABLE INFRASTRUCTURE AND AUGMENTED ECOLOGY
DAM-ECO-LODGE SITE SECTIONTYPICAL SECTION ACROSS ECO LODGE - WETLANDS AND WALKWAYS
Lake MerzougaEco-Lodge SuiteWetland 1WalkwayWetland 2Wetland 3
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agriculture channels
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agriculture
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INFRASTRUCTURE AS MONUMENT - DROUGHT CONDITION
INfRASTRuCTuRE AS ECOlOGICAl AuGMENTATION AND PlACE Of OCCuPATION
The splendor of the site itself is a spectacle that dwarfs any proposition that would exist in it. Successful projects in this context are projects that allowed for human occupation of the site while allowing for a performable sub-script to occur. In this case, the eco-lodge and the golf course were both programs that were embodied within a border infrastructure that allowed for the augmentation of site processes and ecologies. It capitalized on the presence of water on site to inform the limita-tions and potentials of an infrastructure to be both performative and occupiable.
In its greatest moments, the design of this new dam allows for the respectful registra-tion of the site and it surroundings, offering a new alternative and a reinterpretation of what desert tourism could be.
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THIS PROJECT RECOGNIZES THE INERTIA AND SATURATION OF PROPOSALS PERTAINING TO URBAN AGRICULTURE.
Instead it recognizes the potential for a process of editing which originates from existing urban structures to introduce a mechanism of parasitic
coupling and reprogramming of an immense urban surface. It also sees a system by which existing arms-length municipal bodies can begin to
organize new methods of cultivation for highly accessible yet under-utilized tracts of land. This sees the potential for an agriculture that is intersected
into the urban fabric at the scale of the metropolis and functions as forcefully as the power-lines that hover above them.
THIS PROJECT RECOGNIZES THE INERTIA AND SATURATION OF PROPOSALS PERTAINING TO URBAN AGRICULTURE.
Instead it recognizes the potential for a process of editing which originates from existing urban structures to introduce a mechanism of parasitic
coupling and reprogramming of an immense urban surface. It also sees a system by which existing arms-length municipal bodies can begin to
organize new methods of cultivation for highly accessible yet under-utilized tracts of land. This sees the potential for an agriculture that is intersected
into the urban fabric at the scale of the metropolis and functions as forcefully as the power-lines that hover above them.
MARCHING ORDERS OF IMPLEMENTATION
STEP 1: ESTABLISH FEED TORONTO: FEED TORONTO is to be the City’s newest arm’s-length public corporation following the model of its sister’s Invest Toronto and Build Toronto. Its mandate: to promote and operate zones of community gardening and local food production through the operation of urban agriculture at the commercial scale.
FEEDTORONT
STEP 3: EXCHANGE CROWN (PUBLIC) LAND & AIR RIGHTS: The publicly owned, Hydro One owns the broad network of hydro corridors in the province. It is proposed that Feed Toronto inherit the ownership of the public land rights with Hydro One retaining air rights. Such a move multiplies the use of the land and enables the two public corporations to symbiotically pursue their distinct mandates.
STEP 2: CREATE ZONING TYPE UAx: A new zoning designation is needed to permit, promote and protect large scale agriculture within city limits as an appropriate and desirable land use. UAx is such a designation and can be sub-categorized as grazing/livestock, open air crops and greenhouse crops.
fresh produce consumed in Toronto that is grown locally
40%(currently 60% of produce consumed in Toronto is imported from far away)
fresh produce consumed in Toronto that is grown locally after coverting hydro corridors to local agriculture
60%20% of produce consumed in the cityof Toronto could be produced in the city limits in the hydro corridors alone
transfer of land jurisdiction to FEED TORONTO
maintain air rights underHYDRO ONE / TORONTO HYDRO
currently land and air rights are all held underHYDRO ONE
FEEDTORONT
Grazing/Livestock
UAl UAc UAghOpen Air Crops Greenhouse Crops
TYPOLOGIESAgriculture/Education Agriculture/Residential Agriculture/Distribution Commercial Agriculture
THERE IS ENOUGH ARABLE LAND WITHIN THE CITY’S LIMIT TO OFFSET THE IMPORTATION OF THE MAJORITY OF TORONTO’S AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE
8,145 acres +200 km
GROW THE HYDRO-FIELDS
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Since the hydro corridors bisect the urban fabric in a manner that renders its adjacencies irrelevant. FeedToronto would establish a deployment strategy for the new UA (Urban Agriculture) zoning bylaws
so that adjacent land uses are aligned and are integrated into this new agricultural logistics and production corridors.
PLOT TYPOLOGY AND DEPLOYMENT STRATEGYSince currently the hydro corridors bisect the urban fabric in a manner that ignores its adjacent context, FeedToronto is
based on production corridor typologies. This proposes a different pattern of use for private/residential areas, schools and colleges, industrial warehouse zones, and places intersected by highway or rail. The establishment of new agricultural
zoning would be heavily directed by the capacity and scale of these surrounding community conditions.
PLOT TYPOLOGIES AND DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY
Agriculture / Educationschools/colleges
Agriculture / Residentialprivate residential backyards
Commercial Agricultureindustrial warehouse zones
Distribution/Storage Hubhighway/rail connentions
existing mowed corridor
productive agricultural corridor
distribution hub
A Garden that gives pro,aru reference to the olfactory sensesUniversity of Toronto Design Team2011 Xìan Hortocultural Expo
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joRDAn vALLeyA new boRDeR ReALity
Existing older towns along the valley are envisioned to be ‘hydro-retrofitted’’ buildings would be equipped with rain collectors, agricultural water channels become part of the urban landscape, and strict crop typologies are enforced based on the climatic gradient.
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The section - plays an important role in urbanization. Maximizing on the extreme topographic nature of the site, each water hub is connected to a decentralized system of water collection and treatment that center around the civic life of each node. The cycles of hydro-independence from diversion renders the water hubs as nodes of production, high-speed rail stops, local markets, and tourist draws that are all organized around water infrastructure.
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Existing older towns along the valley are envisioned to be ‘hydro-retrofitted’’ buildings would be equipped with rain collectors, agricultural water channels become part of the urban landscape, and strict crop typologies are enforced based on the climatic gradient.
existinG town hydro-retrofits
The section - plays an important role in urbanization. Maximizing on the extreme topographic nature of the site, each water hub is connected to a decentralized system of water collection and treatment that center around the civic life of each node. The cycles of hydro-independence from diversion renders the water hubs as nodes of production, high-speed rail stops, local markets, and tourist draws that are all organized around water infrastructure.
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URBANISMHYDROLOGICAL
CYCLE SYSTEM
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CLOSED SYSTEMS OF SELF-RELIANCEAMD SELF-SIUFFICENCY
INTTELEGENT CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON RESOURCERESUSITATION VERSUS CONSUMPTIONEMBED HYDROLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE INTO ALL COMPONENTS
NON-CONTEXTUAL, RESOURCE INTENSIVEBUILT FORM
JORDAN VALLEY
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BUILT FORM BASED ON CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDINGOF LANDSCAPE PRINCIPLES ,POTENTIALS ,AND LIMITIONS
COMPLETE RELIANCE ON TECHNOLOGICAL ANDMECHNICAL SYSTEMS
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RESULTING URBANISTIC MODELSYSTEM MODEL
UNSUSTAINABLE CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON A RELIANCEON TECHNOLOGY FOR CONITNOUS RESOURCE ABSTRACTION AND WASTE
grey water treatment
urban harvest+ catchment
approriateagriculture
intellegent water cycles
desalinizationRed Sea
Topo Urban Runoff
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Eastern ChannelFresh Water
Fresh WaterWestern Channel
Topo Urban Runoff
Wadi RunoffWadi Runoff
Waste water treatment
Waste water treatment
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micro-catchmentsmicro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
macro-catchmentReservoir
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Water Hub
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HYDRO SYSTEMREPEATHYDROLOGICAL ARMETURE FOR VALLEY AGRO-URBANISM
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AREA: 1,300 KM2
POPULATION 2010: 250,000
POPULATION 2030: 1,100,000
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
Jordan
River
WE
ST
BA
NK
GA
ZA
EU
RO
PE
A F R I C A
T H E A M E R I C A SA N D O C E A N I A
POPULATION /REFUGEE MIGRATION potential settelement in the Jordan ValleyREFUGEE CAMPS
one big urban valleyPROJECTED GROWTH
HYDRO-ECONOMIC PRIORITIESMAJOR SHIFT IN FRESH WATER ALLOCATION
CURRENT SHIFT>PROPOSED FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONSEXISTING FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONS
65%25%
10%
>
pro�table agriculture
domestic/urban economy
treated grey water
harv
est/
dive
rsio
n
river system
$
94%
6%>1%
wasteful agriculture
domestic/ urban
river system
dive
rsio
n
un-treated agri runoff/sewage
$
>
>
>
5 6
JORDAN VALLEYINTERVENTION PROCESS
2 SHIFT AGRICULTRUAL WATER ALLOCATION 3 100 KM
LINEAR CITY 4 SWITCH HYDROLOGICALINFRASTRUCTRUE/CREATE CATCHMENT
CREATE URBAN WATER HUBS/ENFORCE GRADIENT
HYDROLOGICAL VALLEY URBANISMSTRICT URBAN DESIGN AND AGRICULTURAL GUIDELINES1 DEFINE FLOOD PLAIN
ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
^
^
^
^
YEAR 2100IS IT A POSSIBILITY THAT THE CUMILITAIVE CONSEQUENTIAL EFFECT OF THE DESIGNED CIVIL OCCUPATION OF THE VALLEY A REVERSAL OF SCARCITY? COULD A TRANSFORMED SALNITY GRADIENT - WHERE THE DEAD SEA BECOMES A LIVING LAKE- PROVE THAT HYDROLOGY CAN BECOME THE GEO-POLITICAL EQUALIZOR?
6 4 1>> >>GEOPLITICAL WATERSHED STATES 6 mangament strategies 6 mangament strategies
4 HYDROLOGICAL RIVER WATERSHED1 hydrological agro-urbanistic vision1 VALLEY WATERSHED STATE
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
JordanPalestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
Gaza
GolanHeights
Saida
Nuseirat
Jabalia
Rafah
Khan Younis
Al-MaghaziBureij
Shati (Beach)
DeirAl-Balah
Beirut Dbayyeh
Nahr Al-BaredBeddawi
Shatila
Wavell
Baalbek
Tyre
Damascus
Al-Bass
Burj Ash-Shemali
Rashidieh
Talbiyeh
Fawar
Hebron
Beit JibrinJerusalem
Ain Sultan
Shu'fat
QalandiaAl-'Amari
Ramallah
Irbid
Husn
Souf
Jerash
ZarqaBeqa'a
Marka
Amman New Camp(Wihdat)Jabal
Al-Hussein
Jenin
Balata
Far'a
Camp No. 1
Jalazoun
GAZA STRIP
ISRAEL
Nur Shams
JaramanaSbeineh Kabr Essit
Khan DannounKhanAshieh
Ain Al-Hilweh
Mieh Mieh
Dera'a
Dera'aEmergency
Amman
Askar
Mar Elias
Burj Al-Barajneh
Tripoli
Yarmouk(unofficial)
JerichoAkabat Jabr
Create a Globally Governed Watershed Region
Choose the Urban Growth Model: A synthesis of landscape urban infrastructures vs. Unchecked globalization of generic, end-of-pipe engineering and wasteful reactionary planning
Follow a Process of Creating Contemporary Transboundary Hydrological Urban Valley Growth
Think of the Regional Population Influx Shift the Fresh Water Allocation
Build the Hydrological Armature
Speculate the Long Term Consequences of the Reversal of Scarcity
URBAN - AGRICULTRUAL
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATUREINTERVENTIONSYSTEM
JORDAN VALLEY RE-SET WATER ALLOCATION PRIORITIESAGRICULTURE LIMITED TO CROP TYPES/ WATER QUALITY/WATER SOURCESHUMAN + SOCIAL NEEDS + GROWING POPULATION+ INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES COME FIRST
STEP1: RESET RETROFIT WATER INFRASTRUCTURE IN VALLEYTO REFLECT NEW AGRICULTURAL REALITYRETROFIT TOWNS TO MAX TOPO WATER HARVESTINGDESIGN FOR URBAN GROWTH AND URBAN ECONOMYIN THE VALLEY
STEP2: RETROFIT AND DESIGNIDENTIFY 3 MAIN ZONES TO DETAIL NEW REALITIES + EXHIBIT THE REGISTEREDCHANGES AND THE NEW ALLOCATION TO NATURE AND RIVER ECOSYSTEM
STEP3: ZONES OF CUMULATIVE CHANGEMIDDLE ZONE
TOPO-URBANTOPO-URBANNEW
RETROFIT
TRANSFORMED
UTILIZE
RETROFIT
NEWWATER INFRASTRUCTURE
DEIR-ALLATUBAS
600 M 1200 M 1800 M
EAST-CHANNEL
AGRICULTURE NOT AGRIBUISNESS
THE RIVERTHE WINNER
NATURAL LANDFORMTHE ZORE FILTER
OPEN SPACEAQUIFER RECHARGE PARK
WATER INFRASTRUCTUREWEST-CHANNEL
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiver
The proposal takes the form of a 100 km city, with a series of “water hubs” at the end of major wadis (valleys) that collect, treats, and store rain water and run-off. These ‘water hubs’ become nodes of civic life and urbanity. The extreme climatic gradient - from temperate Mediterranean in the north to sub-Saharan near the lowest point on earth - offers these water hubs the potential to capitalize on this gradient to offer identity for each hub. The linear city functions sectionally and inter-faces an ancient agrarian crescent and an augmented – protected- river floodplain.
FLOOD PLAIN
JORDAN RIVERGEOLOGIC FILTER - THE ZHOR
TRANSFORMED AGRICULTURE
EAST CHANNEL
WATER HUB
EXISTING TOWN
EXISTING TOWN
TOPO URBAN EXPANSION
TOPO URBAN EXPANSION
MICRO-CATCHMENT / SEDIMENT CONTROL
MACRO-CATCHMENT
TOPO- AGRICULTURE
TOPO- AGRICULTURE
WASTE WATERTREATMENT FACILITY AND PONDS
1.0 Km
5.0 Km
HYDROLOGICAL - AGRO-URBANISMCLIMATE GRADIENT
MASTER PLAN
2.0 Km
WATER HUB
WATER HUB
WATER HUB
WATER HUB
WATER HUB
TOPO URBAN EX-PANSION
AGRICULTURE
WASTE-WATER TREATMENT
WASTE-WATER TREATMENT
WASTE-WATER TREATMENT
FLOOD PLAINJORDAN RIVER
AGRICULTURETOPO URBAN EX-PANSION
TOPO URBAN EXPANSION
1
4 5
6 7
2 3
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
URBANISMHYDROLOGICAL
CYCLE SYSTEM
END OF PIPE
CLOSED SYSTEMS OF SELF-RELIANCEAMD SELF-SIUFFICENCY
INTTELEGENT CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON RESOURCERESUSITATION VERSUS CONSUMPTIONEMBED HYDROLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE INTO ALL COMPONENTS
NON-CONTEXTUAL, RESOURCE INTENSIVEBUILT FORM
JORDAN VALLEY
RED-MED-DEAD
BUILT FORM BASED ON CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDINGOF LANDSCAPE PRINCIPLES ,POTENTIALS ,AND LIMITIONS
COMPLETE RELIANCE ON TECHNOLOGICAL ANDMECHNICAL SYSTEMS
>>
>>
>>
>
>>
RESULTING URBANISTIC MODELSYSTEM MODEL
UNSUSTAINABLE CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON A RELIANCEON TECHNOLOGY FOR CONITNOUS RESOURCE ABSTRACTION AND WASTE
grey water treatment
urban harvest+ catchment
approriateagriculture
intellegent water cycles
desalinizationRed Sea
Topo Urban Runoff
Topo Urban Runoff
Eastern ChannelFresh Water
Fresh WaterWestern Channel
Topo Urban Runoff
Wadi RunoffWadi Runoff
Waste water treatment
Waste water treatment
Agriculture irrigation
Agriculture irrigation
micro-catchmentsmicro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchments
macro-catchments
Water Hub
Water Hub
HYDRO SYSTEMREPEATHYDROLOGICAL ARMETURE FOR VALLEY AGRO-URBANISM
1,100,0001948 2010 2030>> >>
AREA: 1,300 KM2
POPULATION 2010: 250,000
POPULATION 2030: 1,100,000
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
Jordan
River
WE
ST
BA
NK
GA
ZA
EU
RO
PE
A F R I C A
T H E A M E R I C A SA N D O C E A N I A
POPULATION /REFUGEE MIGRATION potential settelement in the Jordan ValleyREFUGEE CAMPS
one big urban valleyPROJECTED GROWTH
HYDRO-ECONOMIC PRIORITIESMAJOR SHIFT IN FRESH WATER ALLOCATION
CURRENT SHIFT>PROPOSED FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONSEXISTING FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONS
65%25%
10%
>
pro�table agriculture
domestic/urban economy
treated grey water
harv
est/
dive
rsio
n
river system
$
94%
6%>1%
wasteful agriculture
domestic/ urban
river system
dive
rsio
n
un-treated agri runoff/sewage
$
>
>
>
5 6
JORDAN VALLEYINTERVENTION PROCESS
2 SHIFT AGRICULTRUAL WATER ALLOCATION 3 100 KM
LINEAR CITY 4 SWITCH HYDROLOGICALINFRASTRUCTRUE/CREATE CATCHMENT
CREATE URBAN WATER HUBS/ENFORCE GRADIENT
HYDROLOGICAL VALLEY URBANISMSTRICT URBAN DESIGN AND AGRICULTURAL GUIDELINES1 DEFINE FLOOD PLAIN
ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
^
^
^
^
YEAR 2100IS IT A POSSIBILITY THAT THE CUMILITAIVE CONSEQUENTIAL EFFECT OF THE DESIGNED CIVIL OCCUPATION OF THE VALLEY A REVERSAL OF SCARCITY? COULD A TRANSFORMED SALNITY GRADIENT - WHERE THE DEAD SEA BECOMES A LIVING LAKE- PROVE THAT HYDROLOGY CAN BECOME THE GEO-POLITICAL EQUALIZOR?
6 4 1>> >>GEOPLITICAL WATERSHED STATES 6 mangament strategies 6 mangament strategies
4 HYDROLOGICAL RIVER WATERSHED1 hydrological agro-urbanistic vision1 VALLEY WATERSHED STATE
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
JordanPalestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
Gaza
GolanHeights
Saida
Nuseirat
Jabalia
Rafah
Khan Younis
Al-MaghaziBureij
Shati (Beach)
DeirAl-Balah
Beirut Dbayyeh
Nahr Al-BaredBeddawi
Shatila
Wavell
Baalbek
Tyre
Damascus
Al-Bass
Burj Ash-Shemali
Rashidieh
Talbiyeh
Fawar
Hebron
Beit JibrinJerusalem
Ain Sultan
Shu'fat
QalandiaAl-'Amari
Ramallah
Irbid
Husn
Souf
Jerash
ZarqaBeqa'a
Marka
Amman New Camp(Wihdat)Jabal
Al-Hussein
Jenin
Balata
Far'a
Camp No. 1
Jalazoun
GAZA STRIP
ISRAEL
Nur Shams
JaramanaSbeineh Kabr Essit
Khan DannounKhanAshieh
Ain Al-Hilweh
Mieh Mieh
Dera'a
Dera'aEmergency
Amman
Askar
Mar Elias
Burj Al-Barajneh
Tripoli
Yarmouk(unofficial)
JerichoAkabat Jabr
Create a Globally Governed Watershed Region
Choose the Urban Growth Model: A synthesis of landscape urban infrastructures vs. Unchecked globalization of generic, end-of-pipe engineering and wasteful reactionary planning
Follow a Process of Creating Contemporary Transboundary Hydrological Urban Valley Growth
Think of the Regional Population Influx Shift the Fresh Water Allocation
Build the Hydrological Armature
Speculate the Long Term Consequences of the Reversal of Scarcity
1
4 5
6 7
2 3
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
URBANISMHYDROLOGICAL
CYCLE SYSTEM
END OF PIPE
CLOSED SYSTEMS OF SELF-RELIANCEAMD SELF-SIUFFICENCY
INTTELEGENT CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON RESOURCERESUSITATION VERSUS CONSUMPTIONEMBED HYDROLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE INTO ALL COMPONENTS
NON-CONTEXTUAL, RESOURCE INTENSIVEBUILT FORM
JORDAN VALLEY
RED-MED-DEAD
BUILT FORM BASED ON CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDINGOF LANDSCAPE PRINCIPLES ,POTENTIALS ,AND LIMITIONS
COMPLETE RELIANCE ON TECHNOLOGICAL ANDMECHNICAL SYSTEMS
>>
>>
>>
>
>>
RESULTING URBANISTIC MODELSYSTEM MODEL
UNSUSTAINABLE CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON A RELIANCEON TECHNOLOGY FOR CONITNOUS RESOURCE ABSTRACTION AND WASTE
grey water treatment
urban harvest+ catchment
approriateagriculture
intellegent water cycles
desalinizationRed Sea
Topo Urban Runoff
Topo Urban Runoff
Eastern ChannelFresh Water
Fresh WaterWestern Channel
Topo Urban Runoff
Wadi RunoffWadi Runoff
Waste water treatment
Waste water treatment
Agriculture irrigation
Agriculture irrigation
micro-catchmentsmicro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchments
macro-catchments
Water Hub
Water Hub
HYDRO SYSTEMREPEATHYDROLOGICAL ARMETURE FOR VALLEY AGRO-URBANISM
1,100,0001948 2010 2030>> >>
AREA: 1,300 KM2
POPULATION 2010: 250,000
POPULATION 2030: 1,100,000
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
Jordan
River
WE
ST
BA
NK
GA
ZA
EU
RO
PE
A F R I C A
T H E A M E R I C A SA N D O C E A N I A
POPULATION /REFUGEE MIGRATION potential settelement in the Jordan ValleyREFUGEE CAMPS
one big urban valleyPROJECTED GROWTH
HYDRO-ECONOMIC PRIORITIESMAJOR SHIFT IN FRESH WATER ALLOCATION
CURRENT SHIFT>PROPOSED FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONSEXISTING FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONS
65%25%
10%
>
pro�table agriculture
domestic/urban economy
treated grey water
harv
est/
dive
rsio
n
river system
$
94%
6%>1%
wasteful agriculture
domestic/ urban
river system
dive
rsio
n
un-treated agri runoff/sewage
$
>
>
>
5 6
JORDAN VALLEYINTERVENTION PROCESS
2 SHIFT AGRICULTRUAL WATER ALLOCATION 3 100 KM
LINEAR CITY 4 SWITCH HYDROLOGICALINFRASTRUCTRUE/CREATE CATCHMENT
CREATE URBAN WATER HUBS/ENFORCE GRADIENT
HYDROLOGICAL VALLEY URBANISMSTRICT URBAN DESIGN AND AGRICULTURAL GUIDELINES1 DEFINE FLOOD PLAIN
ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
^
^
^
^
YEAR 2100IS IT A POSSIBILITY THAT THE CUMILITAIVE CONSEQUENTIAL EFFECT OF THE DESIGNED CIVIL OCCUPATION OF THE VALLEY A REVERSAL OF SCARCITY? COULD A TRANSFORMED SALNITY GRADIENT - WHERE THE DEAD SEA BECOMES A LIVING LAKE- PROVE THAT HYDROLOGY CAN BECOME THE GEO-POLITICAL EQUALIZOR?
6 4 1>> >>GEOPLITICAL WATERSHED STATES 6 mangament strategies 6 mangament strategies
4 HYDROLOGICAL RIVER WATERSHED1 hydrological agro-urbanistic vision1 VALLEY WATERSHED STATE
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
JordanPalestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
Gaza
GolanHeights
Saida
Nuseirat
Jabalia
Rafah
Khan Younis
Al-MaghaziBureij
Shati (Beach)
DeirAl-Balah
Beirut Dbayyeh
Nahr Al-BaredBeddawi
Shatila
Wavell
Baalbek
Tyre
Damascus
Al-Bass
Burj Ash-Shemali
Rashidieh
Talbiyeh
Fawar
Hebron
Beit JibrinJerusalem
Ain Sultan
Shu'fat
QalandiaAl-'Amari
Ramallah
Irbid
Husn
Souf
Jerash
ZarqaBeqa'a
Marka
Amman New Camp(Wihdat)Jabal
Al-Hussein
Jenin
Balata
Far'a
Camp No. 1
Jalazoun
GAZA STRIP
ISRAEL
Nur Shams
JaramanaSbeineh Kabr Essit
Khan DannounKhanAshieh
Ain Al-Hilweh
Mieh Mieh
Dera'a
Dera'aEmergency
Amman
Askar
Mar Elias
Burj Al-Barajneh
Tripoli
Yarmouk(unofficial)
JerichoAkabat Jabr
Create a Globally Governed Watershed Region
Choose the Urban Growth Model: A synthesis of landscape urban infrastructures vs. Unchecked globalization of generic, end-of-pipe engineering and wasteful reactionary planning
Follow a Process of Creating Contemporary Transboundary Hydrological Urban Valley Growth
Think of the Regional Population Influx Shift the Fresh Water Allocation
Build the Hydrological Armature
Speculate the Long Term Consequences of the Reversal of Scarcity
1
4 5
6 7
2 3
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
URBANISMHYDROLOGICAL
CYCLE SYSTEM
END OF PIPE
CLOSED SYSTEMS OF SELF-RELIANCEAMD SELF-SIUFFICENCY
INTTELEGENT CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON RESOURCERESUSITATION VERSUS CONSUMPTIONEMBED HYDROLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE INTO ALL COMPONENTS
NON-CONTEXTUAL, RESOURCE INTENSIVEBUILT FORM
JORDAN VALLEY
RED-MED-DEAD
BUILT FORM BASED ON CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDINGOF LANDSCAPE PRINCIPLES ,POTENTIALS ,AND LIMITIONS
COMPLETE RELIANCE ON TECHNOLOGICAL ANDMECHNICAL SYSTEMS
>>
>>
>>
>
>>
RESULTING URBANISTIC MODELSYSTEM MODEL
UNSUSTAINABLE CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON A RELIANCEON TECHNOLOGY FOR CONITNOUS RESOURCE ABSTRACTION AND WASTE
grey water treatment
urban harvest+ catchment
approriateagriculture
intellegent water cycles
desalinizationRed Sea
Topo Urban Runoff
Topo Urban Runoff
Eastern ChannelFresh Water
Fresh WaterWestern Channel
Topo Urban Runoff
Wadi RunoffWadi Runoff
Waste water treatment
Waste water treatment
Agriculture irrigation
Agriculture irrigation
micro-catchmentsmicro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchments
macro-catchments
Water Hub
Water Hub
HYDRO SYSTEMREPEATHYDROLOGICAL ARMETURE FOR VALLEY AGRO-URBANISM
1,100,0001948 2010 2030>> >>
AREA: 1,300 KM2
POPULATION 2010: 250,000
POPULATION 2030: 1,100,000
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
Jordan
River
WE
ST
BA
NK
GA
ZA
EU
RO
PE
A F R I C A
T H E A M E R I C A SA N D O C E A N I A
POPULATION /REFUGEE MIGRATION potential settelement in the Jordan ValleyREFUGEE CAMPS
one big urban valleyPROJECTED GROWTH
HYDRO-ECONOMIC PRIORITIESMAJOR SHIFT IN FRESH WATER ALLOCATION
CURRENT SHIFT>PROPOSED FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONSEXISTING FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONS
65%25%
10%
>
pro�table agriculture
domestic/urban economy
treated grey water
harv
est/
dive
rsio
n
river system
$
94%
6%>1%
wasteful agriculture
domestic/ urban
river system
dive
rsio
n
un-treated agri runoff/sewage
$
>
>
>
5 6
JORDAN VALLEYINTERVENTION PROCESS
2 SHIFT AGRICULTRUAL WATER ALLOCATION 3 100 KM
LINEAR CITY 4 SWITCH HYDROLOGICALINFRASTRUCTRUE/CREATE CATCHMENT
CREATE URBAN WATER HUBS/ENFORCE GRADIENT
HYDROLOGICAL VALLEY URBANISMSTRICT URBAN DESIGN AND AGRICULTURAL GUIDELINES1 DEFINE FLOOD PLAIN
ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
^
^
^
^
YEAR 2100IS IT A POSSIBILITY THAT THE CUMILITAIVE CONSEQUENTIAL EFFECT OF THE DESIGNED CIVIL OCCUPATION OF THE VALLEY A REVERSAL OF SCARCITY? COULD A TRANSFORMED SALNITY GRADIENT - WHERE THE DEAD SEA BECOMES A LIVING LAKE- PROVE THAT HYDROLOGY CAN BECOME THE GEO-POLITICAL EQUALIZOR?
6 4 1>> >>GEOPLITICAL WATERSHED STATES 6 mangament strategies 6 mangament strategies
4 HYDROLOGICAL RIVER WATERSHED1 hydrological agro-urbanistic vision1 VALLEY WATERSHED STATE
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
JordanPalestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
Gaza
GolanHeights
Saida
Nuseirat
Jabalia
Rafah
Khan Younis
Al-MaghaziBureij
Shati (Beach)
DeirAl-Balah
Beirut Dbayyeh
Nahr Al-BaredBeddawi
Shatila
Wavell
Baalbek
Tyre
Damascus
Al-Bass
Burj Ash-Shemali
Rashidieh
Talbiyeh
Fawar
Hebron
Beit JibrinJerusalem
Ain Sultan
Shu'fat
QalandiaAl-'Amari
Ramallah
Irbid
Husn
Souf
Jerash
ZarqaBeqa'a
Marka
Amman New Camp(Wihdat)Jabal
Al-Hussein
Jenin
Balata
Far'a
Camp No. 1
Jalazoun
GAZA STRIP
ISRAEL
Nur Shams
JaramanaSbeineh Kabr Essit
Khan DannounKhanAshieh
Ain Al-Hilweh
Mieh Mieh
Dera'a
Dera'aEmergency
Amman
Askar
Mar Elias
Burj Al-Barajneh
Tripoli
Yarmouk(unofficial)
JerichoAkabat Jabr
Create a Globally Governed Watershed Region
Choose the Urban Growth Model: A synthesis of landscape urban infrastructures vs. Unchecked globalization of generic, end-of-pipe engineering and wasteful reactionary planning
Follow a Process of Creating Contemporary Transboundary Hydrological Urban Valley Growth
Think of the Regional Population Influx Shift the Fresh Water Allocation
Build the Hydrological Armature
Speculate the Long Term Consequences of the Reversal of Scarcity
1
4 5
6 7
2 3
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
URBANISMHYDROLOGICAL
CYCLE SYSTEM
END OF PIPE
CLOSED SYSTEMS OF SELF-RELIANCEAMD SELF-SIUFFICENCY
INTTELEGENT CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON RESOURCERESUSITATION VERSUS CONSUMPTIONEMBED HYDROLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE INTO ALL COMPONENTS
NON-CONTEXTUAL, RESOURCE INTENSIVEBUILT FORM
JORDAN VALLEY
RED-MED-DEAD
BUILT FORM BASED ON CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDINGOF LANDSCAPE PRINCIPLES ,POTENTIALS ,AND LIMITIONS
COMPLETE RELIANCE ON TECHNOLOGICAL ANDMECHNICAL SYSTEMS
>>
>>
>>
>
>>
RESULTING URBANISTIC MODELSYSTEM MODEL
UNSUSTAINABLE CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON A RELIANCEON TECHNOLOGY FOR CONITNOUS RESOURCE ABSTRACTION AND WASTE
grey water treatment
urban harvest+ catchment
approriateagriculture
intellegent water cycles
desalinizationRed Sea
Topo Urban Runoff
Topo Urban Runoff
Eastern ChannelFresh Water
Fresh WaterWestern Channel
Topo Urban Runoff
Wadi RunoffWadi Runoff
Waste water treatment
Waste water treatment
Agriculture irrigation
Agriculture irrigation
micro-catchmentsmicro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchments
macro-catchments
Water Hub
Water Hub
HYDRO SYSTEMREPEATHYDROLOGICAL ARMETURE FOR VALLEY AGRO-URBANISM
1,100,0001948 2010 2030>> >>
AREA: 1,300 KM2
POPULATION 2010: 250,000
POPULATION 2030: 1,100,000
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
Jordan
River
WE
ST
BA
NK
GA
ZA
EU
RO
PE
A F R I C A
T H E A M E R I C A SA N D O C E A N I A
POPULATION /REFUGEE MIGRATION potential settelement in the Jordan ValleyREFUGEE CAMPS
one big urban valleyPROJECTED GROWTH
HYDRO-ECONOMIC PRIORITIESMAJOR SHIFT IN FRESH WATER ALLOCATION
CURRENT SHIFT>PROPOSED FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONSEXISTING FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONS
65%25%
10%
>
pro�table agriculture
domestic/urban economy
treated grey water
harv
est/
dive
rsio
n
river system
$
94%
6%>1%
wasteful agriculture
domestic/ urban
river system
dive
rsio
n
un-treated agri runoff/sewage
$
>
>
>
5 6
JORDAN VALLEYINTERVENTION PROCESS
2 SHIFT AGRICULTRUAL WATER ALLOCATION 3 100 KM
LINEAR CITY 4 SWITCH HYDROLOGICALINFRASTRUCTRUE/CREATE CATCHMENT
CREATE URBAN WATER HUBS/ENFORCE GRADIENT
HYDROLOGICAL VALLEY URBANISMSTRICT URBAN DESIGN AND AGRICULTURAL GUIDELINES1 DEFINE FLOOD PLAIN
ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
^
^
^
^
YEAR 2100IS IT A POSSIBILITY THAT THE CUMILITAIVE CONSEQUENTIAL EFFECT OF THE DESIGNED CIVIL OCCUPATION OF THE VALLEY A REVERSAL OF SCARCITY? COULD A TRANSFORMED SALNITY GRADIENT - WHERE THE DEAD SEA BECOMES A LIVING LAKE- PROVE THAT HYDROLOGY CAN BECOME THE GEO-POLITICAL EQUALIZOR?
6 4 1>> >>GEOPLITICAL WATERSHED STATES 6 mangament strategies 6 mangament strategies
4 HYDROLOGICAL RIVER WATERSHED1 hydrological agro-urbanistic vision1 VALLEY WATERSHED STATE
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
JordanPalestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
Gaza
GolanHeights
Saida
Nuseirat
Jabalia
Rafah
Khan Younis
Al-MaghaziBureij
Shati (Beach)
DeirAl-Balah
Beirut Dbayyeh
Nahr Al-BaredBeddawi
Shatila
Wavell
Baalbek
Tyre
Damascus
Al-Bass
Burj Ash-Shemali
Rashidieh
Talbiyeh
Fawar
Hebron
Beit JibrinJerusalem
Ain Sultan
Shu'fat
QalandiaAl-'Amari
Ramallah
Irbid
Husn
Souf
Jerash
ZarqaBeqa'a
Marka
Amman New Camp(Wihdat)Jabal
Al-Hussein
Jenin
Balata
Far'a
Camp No. 1
Jalazoun
GAZA STRIP
ISRAEL
Nur Shams
JaramanaSbeineh Kabr Essit
Khan DannounKhanAshieh
Ain Al-Hilweh
Mieh Mieh
Dera'a
Dera'aEmergency
Amman
Askar
Mar Elias
Burj Al-Barajneh
Tripoli
Yarmouk(unofficial)
JerichoAkabat Jabr
Create a Globally Governed Watershed Region
Choose the Urban Growth Model: A synthesis of landscape urban infrastructures vs. Unchecked globalization of generic, end-of-pipe engineering and wasteful reactionary planning
Follow a Process of Creating Contemporary Transboundary Hydrological Urban Valley Growth
Think of the Regional Population Influx Shift the Fresh Water Allocation
Build the Hydrological Armature
Speculate the Long Term Consequences of the Reversal of Scarcity
The design process scanned and mapped the region to understand how systems of abstraction, diversion, and desalination for urban and agricultural uses have been shaping the processes of settlement and its associated growth model.
The findings have proven that urbanistic and infrastructural models of choice in the Jordan Valley’s recent past and future have been disconcerting of both the landscape’s limitation and its resources. The proposed alternative is a method by which a landscape plan and decentralized systems of water harvesting, recycling, and abstraction could begin to reverse scarcity.
4
5
BORDER VALLEYTRANSFORMATION SYSTEM
PROCESS
1
4 5
6 7
2 3
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
URBANISMHYDROLOGICAL
CYCLE SYSTEM
END OF PIPE
CLOSED SYSTEMS OF SELF-RELIANCEAMD SELF-SIUFFICENCY
INTTELEGENT CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON RESOURCERESUSITATION VERSUS CONSUMPTIONEMBED HYDROLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE INTO ALL COMPONENTS
NON-CONTEXTUAL, RESOURCE INTENSIVEBUILT FORM
JORDAN VALLEY
RED-MED-DEAD
BUILT FORM BASED ON CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDINGOF LANDSCAPE PRINCIPLES ,POTENTIALS ,AND LIMITIONS
COMPLETE RELIANCE ON TECHNOLOGICAL ANDMECHNICAL SYSTEMS
>>
>>
>>
>
>>
RESULTING URBANISTIC MODELSYSTEM MODEL
UNSUSTAINABLE CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON A RELIANCEON TECHNOLOGY FOR CONITNOUS RESOURCE ABSTRACTION AND WASTE
grey water treatment
urban harvest+ catchment
approriateagriculture
intellegent water cycles
desalinizationRed Sea
Topo Urban Runoff
Topo Urban Runoff
Eastern ChannelFresh Water
Fresh WaterWestern Channel
Topo Urban Runoff
Wadi RunoffWadi Runoff
Waste water treatment
Waste water treatment
Agriculture irrigation
Agriculture irrigation
micro-catchmentsmicro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchments
macro-catchments
Water Hub
Water Hub
HYDRO SYSTEMREPEATHYDROLOGICAL ARMETURE FOR VALLEY AGRO-URBANISM
1,100,0001948 2010 2030>> >>
AREA: 1,300 KM2
POPULATION 2010: 250,000
POPULATION 2030: 1,100,000
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
Jordan
River
WE
ST
BA
NK
GA
ZA
EU
RO
PE
A F R I C A
T H E A M E R I C A SA N D O C E A N I A
POPULATION /REFUGEE MIGRATION potential settelement in the Jordan ValleyREFUGEE CAMPS
one big urban valleyPROJECTED GROWTH
HYDRO-ECONOMIC PRIORITIESMAJOR SHIFT IN FRESH WATER ALLOCATION
CURRENT SHIFT>PROPOSED FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONSEXISTING FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONS
65%25%
10%
>
pro�table agriculture
domestic/urban economy
treated grey water
harv
est/
dive
rsio
n
river system
$
94%
6%>1%
wasteful agriculture
domestic/ urban
river system
dive
rsio
n
un-treated agri runoff/sewage
$
>
>
>
5 6
JORDAN VALLEYINTERVENTION PROCESS
2 SHIFT AGRICULTRUAL WATER ALLOCATION 3 100 KM
LINEAR CITY 4 SWITCH HYDROLOGICALINFRASTRUCTRUE/CREATE CATCHMENT
CREATE URBAN WATER HUBS/ENFORCE GRADIENT
HYDROLOGICAL VALLEY URBANISMSTRICT URBAN DESIGN AND AGRICULTURAL GUIDELINES1 DEFINE FLOOD PLAIN
ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
^
^
^
^
YEAR 2100IS IT A POSSIBILITY THAT THE CUMILITAIVE CONSEQUENTIAL EFFECT OF THE DESIGNED CIVIL OCCUPATION OF THE VALLEY A REVERSAL OF SCARCITY? COULD A TRANSFORMED SALNITY GRADIENT - WHERE THE DEAD SEA BECOMES A LIVING LAKE- PROVE THAT HYDROLOGY CAN BECOME THE GEO-POLITICAL EQUALIZOR?
6 4 1>> >>GEOPLITICAL WATERSHED STATES 6 mangament strategies 6 mangament strategies
4 HYDROLOGICAL RIVER WATERSHED1 hydrological agro-urbanistic vision1 VALLEY WATERSHED STATE
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
JordanPalestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
Gaza
GolanHeights
Saida
Nuseirat
Jabalia
Rafah
Khan Younis
Al-MaghaziBureij
Shati (Beach)
DeirAl-Balah
Beirut Dbayyeh
Nahr Al-BaredBeddawi
Shatila
Wavell
Baalbek
Tyre
Damascus
Al-Bass
Burj Ash-Shemali
Rashidieh
Talbiyeh
Fawar
Hebron
Beit JibrinJerusalem
Ain Sultan
Shu'fat
QalandiaAl-'Amari
Ramallah
Irbid
Husn
Souf
Jerash
ZarqaBeqa'a
Marka
Amman New Camp(Wihdat)Jabal
Al-Hussein
Jenin
Balata
Far'a
Camp No. 1
Jalazoun
GAZA STRIP
ISRAEL
Nur Shams
JaramanaSbeineh Kabr Essit
Khan DannounKhanAshieh
Ain Al-Hilweh
Mieh Mieh
Dera'a
Dera'aEmergency
Amman
Askar
Mar Elias
Burj Al-Barajneh
Tripoli
Yarmouk(unofficial)
JerichoAkabat Jabr
Create a Globally Governed Watershed Region
Choose the Urban Growth Model: A synthesis of landscape urban infrastructures vs. Unchecked globalization of generic, end-of-pipe engineering and wasteful reactionary planning
Follow a Process of Creating Contemporary Transboundary Hydrological Urban Valley Growth
Think of the Regional Population Influx Shift the Fresh Water Allocation
Build the Hydrological Armature
Speculate the Long Term Consequences of the Reversal of Scarcity
1
4 5
6 7
2 3
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
URBANISMHYDROLOGICAL
CYCLE SYSTEM
END OF PIPE
CLOSED SYSTEMS OF SELF-RELIANCEAMD SELF-SIUFFICENCY
INTTELEGENT CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON RESOURCERESUSITATION VERSUS CONSUMPTIONEMBED HYDROLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE INTO ALL COMPONENTS
NON-CONTEXTUAL, RESOURCE INTENSIVEBUILT FORM
JORDAN VALLEY
RED-MED-DEAD
BUILT FORM BASED ON CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDINGOF LANDSCAPE PRINCIPLES ,POTENTIALS ,AND LIMITIONS
COMPLETE RELIANCE ON TECHNOLOGICAL ANDMECHNICAL SYSTEMS
>>
>>
>>
>
>>
RESULTING URBANISTIC MODELSYSTEM MODEL
UNSUSTAINABLE CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON A RELIANCEON TECHNOLOGY FOR CONITNOUS RESOURCE ABSTRACTION AND WASTE
grey water treatment
urban harvest+ catchment
approriateagriculture
intellegent water cycles
desalinizationRed Sea
Topo Urban Runoff
Topo Urban Runoff
Eastern ChannelFresh Water
Fresh WaterWestern Channel
Topo Urban Runoff
Wadi RunoffWadi Runoff
Waste water treatment
Waste water treatment
Agriculture irrigation
Agriculture irrigation
micro-catchmentsmicro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchments
macro-catchments
Water Hub
Water Hub
HYDRO SYSTEMREPEATHYDROLOGICAL ARMETURE FOR VALLEY AGRO-URBANISM
1,100,0001948 2010 2030>> >>
AREA: 1,300 KM2
POPULATION 2010: 250,000
POPULATION 2030: 1,100,000
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
Jordan
River
WE
ST
BA
NK
GA
ZA
EU
RO
PE
A F R I C A
T H E A M E R I C A SA N D O C E A N I A
POPULATION /REFUGEE MIGRATION potential settelement in the Jordan ValleyREFUGEE CAMPS
one big urban valleyPROJECTED GROWTH
HYDRO-ECONOMIC PRIORITIESMAJOR SHIFT IN FRESH WATER ALLOCATION
CURRENT SHIFT>PROPOSED FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONSEXISTING FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONS
65%25%
10%
>
pro�table agriculture
domestic/urban economy
treated grey water
harv
est/
dive
rsio
n
river system
$
94%
6%>1%
wasteful agriculture
domestic/ urban
river system
dive
rsio
n
un-treated agri runoff/sewage
$
>
>
>
5 6
JORDAN VALLEYINTERVENTION PROCESS
2 SHIFT AGRICULTRUAL WATER ALLOCATION 3 100 KM
LINEAR CITY 4 SWITCH HYDROLOGICALINFRASTRUCTRUE/CREATE CATCHMENT
CREATE URBAN WATER HUBS/ENFORCE GRADIENT
HYDROLOGICAL VALLEY URBANISMSTRICT URBAN DESIGN AND AGRICULTURAL GUIDELINES1 DEFINE FLOOD PLAIN
ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
^
^
^
^
YEAR 2100IS IT A POSSIBILITY THAT THE CUMILITAIVE CONSEQUENTIAL EFFECT OF THE DESIGNED CIVIL OCCUPATION OF THE VALLEY A REVERSAL OF SCARCITY? COULD A TRANSFORMED SALNITY GRADIENT - WHERE THE DEAD SEA BECOMES A LIVING LAKE- PROVE THAT HYDROLOGY CAN BECOME THE GEO-POLITICAL EQUALIZOR?
6 4 1>> >>GEOPLITICAL WATERSHED STATES 6 mangament strategies 6 mangament strategies
4 HYDROLOGICAL RIVER WATERSHED1 hydrological agro-urbanistic vision1 VALLEY WATERSHED STATE
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
JordanPalestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
Gaza
GolanHeights
Saida
Nuseirat
Jabalia
Rafah
Khan Younis
Al-MaghaziBureij
Shati (Beach)
DeirAl-Balah
Beirut Dbayyeh
Nahr Al-BaredBeddawi
Shatila
Wavell
Baalbek
Tyre
Damascus
Al-Bass
Burj Ash-Shemali
Rashidieh
Talbiyeh
Fawar
Hebron
Beit JibrinJerusalem
Ain Sultan
Shu'fat
QalandiaAl-'Amari
Ramallah
Irbid
Husn
Souf
Jerash
ZarqaBeqa'a
Marka
Amman New Camp(Wihdat)Jabal
Al-Hussein
Jenin
Balata
Far'a
Camp No. 1
Jalazoun
GAZA STRIP
ISRAEL
Nur Shams
JaramanaSbeineh Kabr Essit
Khan DannounKhanAshieh
Ain Al-Hilweh
Mieh Mieh
Dera'a
Dera'aEmergency
Amman
Askar
Mar Elias
Burj Al-Barajneh
Tripoli
Yarmouk(unofficial)
JerichoAkabat Jabr
Create a Globally Governed Watershed Region
Choose the Urban Growth Model: A synthesis of landscape urban infrastructures vs. Unchecked globalization of generic, end-of-pipe engineering and wasteful reactionary planning
Follow a Process of Creating Contemporary Transboundary Hydrological Urban Valley Growth
Think of the Regional Population Influx Shift the Fresh Water Allocation
Build the Hydrological Armature
Speculate the Long Term Consequences of the Reversal of Scarcity
1
4 5
6 7
2 3
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
URBANISMHYDROLOGICAL
CYCLE SYSTEM
END OF PIPE
CLOSED SYSTEMS OF SELF-RELIANCEAMD SELF-SIUFFICENCY
INTTELEGENT CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON RESOURCERESUSITATION VERSUS CONSUMPTIONEMBED HYDROLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE INTO ALL COMPONENTS
NON-CONTEXTUAL, RESOURCE INTENSIVEBUILT FORM
JORDAN VALLEY
RED-MED-DEAD
BUILT FORM BASED ON CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDINGOF LANDSCAPE PRINCIPLES ,POTENTIALS ,AND LIMITIONS
COMPLETE RELIANCE ON TECHNOLOGICAL ANDMECHNICAL SYSTEMS
>>
>>
>>
>
>>
RESULTING URBANISTIC MODELSYSTEM MODEL
UNSUSTAINABLE CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON A RELIANCEON TECHNOLOGY FOR CONITNOUS RESOURCE ABSTRACTION AND WASTE
grey water treatment
urban harvest+ catchment
approriateagriculture
intellegent water cycles
desalinizationRed Sea
Topo Urban Runoff
Topo Urban Runoff
Eastern ChannelFresh Water
Fresh WaterWestern Channel
Topo Urban Runoff
Wadi RunoffWadi Runoff
Waste water treatment
Waste water treatment
Agriculture irrigation
Agriculture irrigation
micro-catchmentsmicro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchments
macro-catchments
Water Hub
Water Hub
HYDRO SYSTEMREPEATHYDROLOGICAL ARMETURE FOR VALLEY AGRO-URBANISM
1,100,0001948 2010 2030>> >>
AREA: 1,300 KM2
POPULATION 2010: 250,000
POPULATION 2030: 1,100,000
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
Jordan
River
WE
ST
BA
NK
GA
ZA
EU
RO
PE
A F R I C A
T H E A M E R I C A SA N D O C E A N I A
POPULATION /REFUGEE MIGRATION potential settelement in the Jordan ValleyREFUGEE CAMPS
one big urban valleyPROJECTED GROWTH
HYDRO-ECONOMIC PRIORITIESMAJOR SHIFT IN FRESH WATER ALLOCATION
CURRENT SHIFT>PROPOSED FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONSEXISTING FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONS
65%25%
10%
>
pro�table agriculture
domestic/urban economy
treated grey water
harv
est/
dive
rsio
n
river system
$
94%
6%>1%
wasteful agriculture
domestic/ urban
river system
dive
rsio
n
un-treated agri runoff/sewage
$
>
>
>
5 6
JORDAN VALLEYINTERVENTION PROCESS
2 SHIFT AGRICULTRUAL WATER ALLOCATION 3 100 KM
LINEAR CITY 4 SWITCH HYDROLOGICALINFRASTRUCTRUE/CREATE CATCHMENT
CREATE URBAN WATER HUBS/ENFORCE GRADIENT
HYDROLOGICAL VALLEY URBANISMSTRICT URBAN DESIGN AND AGRICULTURAL GUIDELINES1 DEFINE FLOOD PLAIN
ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
^
^
^
^
YEAR 2100IS IT A POSSIBILITY THAT THE CUMILITAIVE CONSEQUENTIAL EFFECT OF THE DESIGNED CIVIL OCCUPATION OF THE VALLEY A REVERSAL OF SCARCITY? COULD A TRANSFORMED SALNITY GRADIENT - WHERE THE DEAD SEA BECOMES A LIVING LAKE- PROVE THAT HYDROLOGY CAN BECOME THE GEO-POLITICAL EQUALIZOR?
6 4 1>> >>GEOPLITICAL WATERSHED STATES 6 mangament strategies 6 mangament strategies
4 HYDROLOGICAL RIVER WATERSHED1 hydrological agro-urbanistic vision1 VALLEY WATERSHED STATE
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
JordanPalestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
Gaza
GolanHeights
Saida
Nuseirat
Jabalia
Rafah
Khan Younis
Al-MaghaziBureij
Shati (Beach)
DeirAl-Balah
Beirut Dbayyeh
Nahr Al-BaredBeddawi
Shatila
Wavell
Baalbek
Tyre
Damascus
Al-Bass
Burj Ash-Shemali
Rashidieh
Talbiyeh
Fawar
Hebron
Beit JibrinJerusalem
Ain Sultan
Shu'fat
QalandiaAl-'Amari
Ramallah
Irbid
Husn
Souf
Jerash
ZarqaBeqa'a
Marka
Amman New Camp(Wihdat)Jabal
Al-Hussein
Jenin
Balata
Far'a
Camp No. 1
Jalazoun
GAZA STRIP
ISRAEL
Nur Shams
JaramanaSbeineh Kabr Essit
Khan DannounKhanAshieh
Ain Al-Hilweh
Mieh Mieh
Dera'a
Dera'aEmergency
Amman
Askar
Mar Elias
Burj Al-Barajneh
Tripoli
Yarmouk(unofficial)
JerichoAkabat Jabr
Create a Globally Governed Watershed Region
Choose the Urban Growth Model: A synthesis of landscape urban infrastructures vs. Unchecked globalization of generic, end-of-pipe engineering and wasteful reactionary planning
Follow a Process of Creating Contemporary Transboundary Hydrological Urban Valley Growth
Think of the Regional Population Influx Shift the Fresh Water Allocation
Build the Hydrological Armature
Speculate the Long Term Consequences of the Reversal of Scarcity
1
4 5
6 7
2 3
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
URBANISMHYDROLOGICAL
CYCLE SYSTEM
END OF PIPE
CLOSED SYSTEMS OF SELF-RELIANCEAMD SELF-SIUFFICENCY
INTTELEGENT CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON RESOURCERESUSITATION VERSUS CONSUMPTIONEMBED HYDROLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE INTO ALL COMPONENTS
NON-CONTEXTUAL, RESOURCE INTENSIVEBUILT FORM
JORDAN VALLEY
RED-MED-DEAD
BUILT FORM BASED ON CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDINGOF LANDSCAPE PRINCIPLES ,POTENTIALS ,AND LIMITIONS
COMPLETE RELIANCE ON TECHNOLOGICAL ANDMECHNICAL SYSTEMS
>>
>>
>>
>
>>
RESULTING URBANISTIC MODELSYSTEM MODEL
UNSUSTAINABLE CIVIL OCCUPATION BASED ON A RELIANCEON TECHNOLOGY FOR CONITNOUS RESOURCE ABSTRACTION AND WASTE
grey water treatment
urban harvest+ catchment
approriateagriculture
intellegent water cycles
desalinizationRed Sea
Topo Urban Runoff
Topo Urban Runoff
Eastern ChannelFresh Water
Fresh WaterWestern Channel
Topo Urban Runoff
Wadi RunoffWadi Runoff
Waste water treatment
Waste water treatment
Agriculture irrigation
Agriculture irrigation
micro-catchmentsmicro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
residential units micro-catchments
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchmentReservoir
macro-catchments
macro-catchments
Water Hub
Water Hub
HYDRO SYSTEMREPEATHYDROLOGICAL ARMETURE FOR VALLEY AGRO-URBANISM
1,100,0001948 2010 2030>> >>
AREA: 1,300 KM2
POPULATION 2010: 250,000
POPULATION 2030: 1,100,000
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
Source: Adapted from Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
Jordan
River
WE
ST
BA
NK
GA
ZA
EU
RO
PE
A F R I C A
T H E A M E R I C A SA N D O C E A N I A
POPULATION /REFUGEE MIGRATION potential settelement in the Jordan ValleyREFUGEE CAMPS
one big urban valleyPROJECTED GROWTH
HYDRO-ECONOMIC PRIORITIESMAJOR SHIFT IN FRESH WATER ALLOCATION
CURRENT SHIFT>PROPOSED FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONSEXISTING FRESH WATER ALLOCATIONS
65%25%
10%
>
pro�table agriculture
domestic/urban economy
treated grey water
harv
est/
dive
rsio
n
river system
$
94%
6%>1%
wasteful agriculture
domestic/ urban
river system
dive
rsio
n
un-treated agri runoff/sewage
$
>
>
>
5 6
JORDAN VALLEYINTERVENTION PROCESS
2 SHIFT AGRICULTRUAL WATER ALLOCATION 3 100 KM
LINEAR CITY 4 SWITCH HYDROLOGICALINFRASTRUCTRUE/CREATE CATCHMENT
CREATE URBAN WATER HUBS/ENFORCE GRADIENT
HYDROLOGICAL VALLEY URBANISMSTRICT URBAN DESIGN AND AGRICULTURAL GUIDELINES1 DEFINE FLOOD PLAIN
ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
^
^
^
^
YEAR 2100IS IT A POSSIBILITY THAT THE CUMILITAIVE CONSEQUENTIAL EFFECT OF THE DESIGNED CIVIL OCCUPATION OF THE VALLEY A REVERSAL OF SCARCITY? COULD A TRANSFORMED SALNITY GRADIENT - WHERE THE DEAD SEA BECOMES A LIVING LAKE- PROVE THAT HYDROLOGY CAN BECOME THE GEO-POLITICAL EQUALIZOR?
6 4 1>> >>GEOPLITICAL WATERSHED STATES 6 mangament strategies 6 mangament strategies
4 HYDROLOGICAL RIVER WATERSHED1 hydrological agro-urbanistic vision1 VALLEY WATERSHED STATE
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias
Syria
Lebanon
JordanPalestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
LakeTiberias Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
DeadSea
ArabaValley
JordanRiver
Gaza
GolanHeights
Saida
Nuseirat
Jabalia
Rafah
Khan Younis
Al-MaghaziBureij
Shati (Beach)
DeirAl-Balah
Beirut Dbayyeh
Nahr Al-BaredBeddawi
Shatila
Wavell
Baalbek
Tyre
Damascus
Al-Bass
Burj Ash-Shemali
Rashidieh
Talbiyeh
Fawar
Hebron
Beit JibrinJerusalem
Ain Sultan
Shu'fat
QalandiaAl-'Amari
Ramallah
Irbid
Husn
Souf
Jerash
ZarqaBeqa'a
Marka
Amman New Camp(Wihdat)Jabal
Al-Hussein
Jenin
Balata
Far'a
Camp No. 1
Jalazoun
GAZA STRIP
ISRAEL
Nur Shams
JaramanaSbeineh Kabr Essit
Khan DannounKhanAshieh
Ain Al-Hilweh
Mieh Mieh
Dera'a
Dera'aEmergency
Amman
Askar
Mar Elias
Burj Al-Barajneh
Tripoli
Yarmouk(unofficial)
JerichoAkabat Jabr
Create a Globally Governed Watershed Region
Choose the Urban Growth Model: A synthesis of landscape urban infrastructures vs. Unchecked globalization of generic, end-of-pipe engineering and wasteful reactionary planning
Follow a Process of Creating Contemporary Transboundary Hydrological Urban Valley Growth
Think of the Regional Population Influx Shift the Fresh Water Allocation
Build the Hydrological Armature
Speculate the Long Term Consequences of the Reversal of Scarcity
The design process scanned and mapped the region to understand how systems of abstraction, diversion, and desalination for urban and agricultural uses have been shaping the processes of settlement and its associated growth model.
The findings have proven that urbanistic and infrastructural models of choice in the Jordan Valley’s recent past and future have been disconcerting of both the landscape’s limitation and its resources. The proposed alternative is a method by which a landscape plan and decentralized systems of water harvesting, recycling, and abstraction could begin to reverse scarcity.
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BORDER VALLEYTRANSFORMATION SYSTEM
PROCESS
The proposal takes the form of a 100 km city, with a series of “water hubs” at the end of major wadis (valleys) that collect, treats, and store rain water and run-off. These ‘water hubs’ become nodes of civic life and urbanity. The extreme climaticgradient - from temperate Mediterranean in the north to sub-Saharan near the lowest point on earth - offers these water hubs the potential to capitalize on this gradient to offer identity for each hub. The linear city functions sectionally and interfacesan ancient agrarian crescent and an augmented – protected- river floodplain.
hydroloGical - aGro-urBanismclimate Gradient
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ROTTENBERG POWER STATION PEACE PARK
NORTH The old hydro-electric station at the con-fluence of the Yarmouk and Jordan Rivers has been abandoned for decades- One of the many structures of the old engi-neering eras. A proposed peace park is meant to capitalize on the relics of the old infrastructure to create a massive waste water treatment facility. The collection and treatment of waste water by both the Jor-danians, Israelis, and Palestinians at the this major hub.
RECREATIONAL - WASTE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
NORTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNISRAELI
RETROFITWATER INFRASTRUCTUREEAST-CHANNEL
TRANSFORMEDPOWER STATIONROTENBERG RELICSTHE RIVER
THE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGREY WATER IRRIGATED
WHEAT FIELDS
NEWOLIVE MOUNDSPOND DREDGE
TRANSFORMEDCHANNEL
ROTENBERG RELICS
TOWNJORDANIAN
AQUACULTURETRANSFORMED
ISRAELI
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiverROTENBERG
STATION
“PEACE” WASTE WATER
PARK
WASTE WATER
ISRAELIPONDS
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
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URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
NORTH ZONE
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JORDANIAN
TOWNISRAELI
RETROFITWATER INFRASTRUCTUREEAST-CHANNEL
TRANSFORMEDPOWER STATIONROTENBERG RELICSTHE RIVER
THE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGREY WATER IRRIGATED
WHEAT FIELDS
NEWOLIVE MOUNDSPOND DREDGE
TRANSFORMEDCHANNEL
ROTENBERG RELICS
TOWNJORDANIAN
AQUACULTURETRANSFORMED
ISRAELI
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiverROTENBERG
STATION
“PEACE” WASTE WATER
PARK
WASTE WATER
ISRAELIPONDS
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
ROTTENBERG POWER STATION PEACE PARK
NORTH The old hydro-electric station at the con-fluence of the Yarmouk and Jordan Rivers has been abandoned for decades- One of the many structures of the old engi-neering eras. A proposed peace park is meant to capitalize on the relics of the old infrastructure to create a massive waste water treatment facility. The collection and treatment of waste water by both the Jor-danians, Israelis, and Palestinians at the this major hub.
RECREATIONAL - WASTE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
NORTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNISRAELI
RETROFITWATER INFRASTRUCTUREEAST-CHANNEL
TRANSFORMEDPOWER STATIONROTENBERG RELICSTHE RIVER
THE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGREY WATER IRRIGATED
WHEAT FIELDS
NEWOLIVE MOUNDSPOND DREDGE
TRANSFORMEDCHANNEL
ROTENBERG RELICS
TOWNJORDANIAN
AQUACULTURETRANSFORMED
ISRAELI
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiverROTENBERG
STATION
“PEACE” WASTE WATER
PARK
WASTE WATER
ISRAELIPONDS
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
RECREATIONAL - WASTE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
NORTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNISRAELI
RETROFITWATER INFRASTRUCTUREEAST-CHANNEL
TRANSFORMEDPOWER STATIONROTENBERG RELICSTHE RIVER
THE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGREY WATER IRRIGATED
WHEAT FIELDS
NEWOLIVE MOUNDSPOND DREDGE
TRANSFORMEDCHANNEL
ROTENBERG RELICS
TOWNJORDANIAN
AQUACULTURETRANSFORMED
ISRAELI
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiverROTENBERG
STATION
“PEACE” WASTE WATER
PARK
WASTE WATER
ISRAELIPONDS
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
north end: rottenberg power station peace park
The old hydro-electric station at the confluence of the Yarmouk and Jordan Rivers has been abandoned for decades- One of the many structures of the old engineering eras. A proposed peace park is meant to capitalize on the relics of the old infrastructure to create a massive waste water treatment facility. The collection and treatment of waste water by both the Jordanians, Israelis, and Palestinians at the this major hub.
peripheral effects
13
ROTTENBERG POWER STATION PEACE PARK
NORTH The old hydro-electric station at the con-fluence of the Yarmouk and Jordan Rivers has been abandoned for decades- One of the many structures of the old engi-neering eras. A proposed peace park is meant to capitalize on the relics of the old infrastructure to create a massive waste water treatment facility. The collection and treatment of waste water by both the Jor-danians, Israelis, and Palestinians at the this major hub.
RECREATIONAL - WASTE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
NORTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNISRAELI
RETROFITWATER INFRASTRUCTUREEAST-CHANNEL
TRANSFORMEDPOWER STATIONROTENBERG RELICSTHE RIVER
THE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGREY WATER IRRIGATED
WHEAT FIELDS
NEWOLIVE MOUNDSPOND DREDGE
TRANSFORMEDCHANNEL
ROTENBERG RELICS
TOWNJORDANIAN
AQUACULTURETRANSFORMED
ISRAELI
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiverROTENBERG
STATION
“PEACE” WASTE WATER
PARK
WASTE WATER
ISRAELIPONDS
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
RECREATIONAL - WASTE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
NORTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNISRAELI
RETROFITWATER INFRASTRUCTUREEAST-CHANNEL
TRANSFORMEDPOWER STATIONROTENBERG RELICSTHE RIVER
THE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGREY WATER IRRIGATED
WHEAT FIELDS
NEWOLIVE MOUNDSPOND DREDGE
TRANSFORMEDCHANNEL
ROTENBERG RELICS
TOWNJORDANIAN
AQUACULTURETRANSFORMED
ISRAELI
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiverROTENBERG
STATION
“PEACE” WASTE WATER
PARK
WASTE WATER
ISRAELIPONDS
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
ROTTENBERG POWER STATION PEACE PARK
NORTH The old hydro-electric station at the con-fluence of the Yarmouk and Jordan Rivers has been abandoned for decades- One of the many structures of the old engi-neering eras. A proposed peace park is meant to capitalize on the relics of the old infrastructure to create a massive waste water treatment facility. The collection and treatment of waste water by both the Jor-danians, Israelis, and Palestinians at the this major hub.
RECREATIONAL - WASTE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
NORTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNISRAELI
RETROFITWATER INFRASTRUCTUREEAST-CHANNEL
TRANSFORMEDPOWER STATIONROTENBERG RELICSTHE RIVER
THE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGREY WATER IRRIGATED
WHEAT FIELDS
NEWOLIVE MOUNDSPOND DREDGE
TRANSFORMEDCHANNEL
ROTENBERG RELICS
TOWNJORDANIAN
AQUACULTURETRANSFORMED
ISRAELI
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiverROTENBERG
STATION
“PEACE” WASTE WATER
PARK
WASTE WATER
ISRAELIPONDS
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
RECREATIONAL - WASTE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
NORTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNISRAELI
RETROFITWATER INFRASTRUCTUREEAST-CHANNEL
TRANSFORMEDPOWER STATIONROTENBERG RELICSTHE RIVER
THE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGREY WATER IRRIGATED
WHEAT FIELDS
NEWOLIVE MOUNDSPOND DREDGE
TRANSFORMEDCHANNEL
ROTENBERG RELICS
TOWNJORDANIAN
AQUACULTURETRANSFORMED
ISRAELI
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiverROTENBERG
STATION
“PEACE” WASTE WATER
PARK
WASTE WATER
ISRAELIPONDS
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
north end: rottenberg power station peace park
The old hydro-electric station at the confluence of the Yarmouk and Jordan Rivers has been abandoned for decades- One of the many structures of the old engineering eras. A proposed peace park is meant to capitalize on the relics of the old infrastructure to create a massive waste water treatment facility. The collection and treatment of waste water by both the Jordanians, Israelis, and Palestinians at the this major hub.
peripheral effects
13
ROTTENBERG POWER STATION PEACE PARK
NORTH The old hydro-electric station at the con-fluence of the Yarmouk and Jordan Rivers has been abandoned for decades- One of the many structures of the old engi-neering eras. A proposed peace park is meant to capitalize on the relics of the old infrastructure to create a massive waste water treatment facility. The collection and treatment of waste water by both the Jor-danians, Israelis, and Palestinians at the this major hub.
RECREATIONAL - WASTE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
NORTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNISRAELI
RETROFITWATER INFRASTRUCTUREEAST-CHANNEL
TRANSFORMEDPOWER STATIONROTENBERG RELICSTHE RIVER
THE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGREY WATER IRRIGATED
WHEAT FIELDS
NEWOLIVE MOUNDSPOND DREDGE
TRANSFORMEDCHANNEL
ROTENBERG RELICS
TOWNJORDANIAN
AQUACULTURETRANSFORMED
ISRAELI
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiverROTENBERG
STATION
“PEACE” WASTE WATER
PARK
WASTE WATER
ISRAELIPONDS
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
RECREATIONAL - WASTE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
NORTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNISRAELI
RETROFITWATER INFRASTRUCTUREEAST-CHANNEL
TRANSFORMEDPOWER STATIONROTENBERG RELICSTHE RIVER
THE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGREY WATER IRRIGATED
WHEAT FIELDS
NEWOLIVE MOUNDSPOND DREDGE
TRANSFORMEDCHANNEL
ROTENBERG RELICS
TOWNJORDANIAN
AQUACULTURETRANSFORMED
ISRAELI
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiverROTENBERG
STATION
“PEACE” WASTE WATER
PARK
WASTE WATER
ISRAELIPONDS
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
ROTTENBERG POWER STATION PEACE PARK
NORTH The old hydro-electric station at the con-fluence of the Yarmouk and Jordan Rivers has been abandoned for decades- One of the many structures of the old engi-neering eras. A proposed peace park is meant to capitalize on the relics of the old infrastructure to create a massive waste water treatment facility. The collection and treatment of waste water by both the Jor-danians, Israelis, and Palestinians at the this major hub.
RECREATIONAL - WASTE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
NORTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNISRAELI
RETROFITWATER INFRASTRUCTUREEAST-CHANNEL
TRANSFORMEDPOWER STATIONROTENBERG RELICSTHE RIVER
THE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGREY WATER IRRIGATED
WHEAT FIELDS
NEWOLIVE MOUNDSPOND DREDGE
TRANSFORMEDCHANNEL
ROTENBERG RELICS
TOWNJORDANIAN
AQUACULTURETRANSFORMED
ISRAELI
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiverROTENBERG
STATION
“PEACE” WASTE WATER
PARK
WASTE WATER
ISRAELIPONDS
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
RECREATIONAL - WASTE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
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TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
NORTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNISRAELI
RETROFITWATER INFRASTRUCTUREEAST-CHANNEL
TRANSFORMEDPOWER STATIONROTENBERG RELICSTHE RIVER
THE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGREY WATER IRRIGATED
WHEAT FIELDS
NEWOLIVE MOUNDSPOND DREDGE
TRANSFORMEDCHANNEL
ROTENBERG RELICS
TOWNJORDANIAN
AQUACULTURETRANSFORMED
ISRAELI
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiverROTENBERG
STATION
“PEACE” WASTE WATER
PARK
WASTE WATER
ISRAELIPONDS
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
north end: rottenberg power station peace park
The old hydro-electric station at the confluence of the Yarmouk and Jordan Rivers has been abandoned for decades- One of the many structures of the old engineering eras. A proposed peace park is meant to capitalize on the relics of the old infrastructure to create a massive waste water treatment facility. The collection and treatment of waste water by both the Jordanians, Israelis, and Palestinians at the this major hub.
peripheral effects
13
BAPTISM SITE ECO- RESERVE
SOUTH The southern end of the Jordan River Valley - Where the River meets the Dead Sea -is claimed to be the historic location of baptism of Jesus. The level of contamination in the water has rendered the river inaccessible to the millions of tourists and pilgrims who visit the site every year. Instead baptisms take place in a camouflaged pool with imported water. The region surrounding the site is proposed to be transformed into an ecological reserve and habitat. Its importance as an aquifer recharge zone, proximity to tourist zones, and a too high salinity soil for agriculture makes it the ideal place for the a preserve of Tamarisks Poplars. and wild life.
TOURISTIC - NATURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
SOUTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNPALESTINIAN
GEOLGIC FILTERAGRI-RUN-OFFTOURSIT SITE
BAPTISM SITECHURCH+POOL
THE RIVERTHE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGEOLOGIC FILTERS
AGRI-RUNOFF
TOWNJORDANIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSET
TREATMENT/RECHARGEAGRICULTURE
TRANSFORMED
PALESTINIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSETTREATMENT/RECHARGE
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiver
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
TOURISTIC - NATURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
SOUTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNPALESTINIAN
GEOLGIC FILTERAGRI-RUN-OFFTOURSIT SITE
BAPTISM SITECHURCH+POOL
THE RIVERTHE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGEOLOGIC FILTERS
AGRI-RUNOFF
TOWNJORDANIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSET
TREATMENT/RECHARGEAGRICULTURE
TRANSFORMED
PALESTINIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSETTREATMENT/RECHARGE
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiver
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
BAPTISM SITE ECO- RESERVE
SOUTH The southern end of the Jordan River Valley - Where the River meets the Dead Sea -is claimed to be the historic location of baptism of Jesus. The level of contamination in the water has rendered the river inaccessible to the millions of tourists and pilgrims who visit the site every year. Instead baptisms take place in a camouflaged pool with imported water. The region surrounding the site is proposed to be transformed into an ecological reserve and habitat. Its importance as an aquifer recharge zone, proximity to tourist zones, and a too high salinity soil for agriculture makes it the ideal place for the a preserve of Tamarisks Poplars. and wild life.
TOURISTIC - NATURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
SOUTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNPALESTINIAN
GEOLGIC FILTERAGRI-RUN-OFFTOURSIT SITE
BAPTISM SITECHURCH+POOL
THE RIVERTHE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGEOLOGIC FILTERS
AGRI-RUNOFF
TOWNJORDANIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSET
TREATMENT/RECHARGEAGRICULTURE
TRANSFORMED
PALESTINIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSETTREATMENT/RECHARGE
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiver
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
TOURISTIC - NATURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
SOUTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNPALESTINIAN
GEOLGIC FILTERAGRI-RUN-OFFTOURSIT SITE
BAPTISM SITECHURCH+POOL
THE RIVERTHE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGEOLOGIC FILTERS
AGRI-RUNOFF
TOWNJORDANIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSET
TREATMENT/RECHARGEAGRICULTURE
TRANSFORMED
PALESTINIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSETTREATMENT/RECHARGE
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiver
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
south end: baptism site eco-reserve
The southern end of the Jordan River Valley - Where the River meets the Dead Sea -is claimed to be the historic location of baptism of Jesus. The level of contamination in the water has rendered the river inaccessible to the millions of tourists and pilgrims who visit the site every year. Instead baptisms take place in a camouflaged pool with imported water. The region surrounding the site is proposed to be transformed into an ecological reserve and habitat. Its importance as an aquifer recharge zone proximity to tourist zones, and a too high salinity soil for agriculture makes it the ideal place for the a preserve of Tamarisks Poplars and wild life.
peripheral effects
14
BAPTISM SITE ECO- RESERVE
SOUTH The southern end of the Jordan River Valley - Where the River meets the Dead Sea -is claimed to be the historic location of baptism of Jesus. The level of contamination in the water has rendered the river inaccessible to the millions of tourists and pilgrims who visit the site every year. Instead baptisms take place in a camouflaged pool with imported water. The region surrounding the site is proposed to be transformed into an ecological reserve and habitat. Its importance as an aquifer recharge zone, proximity to tourist zones, and a too high salinity soil for agriculture makes it the ideal place for the a preserve of Tamarisks Poplars. and wild life.
TOURISTIC - NATURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
SOUTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNPALESTINIAN
GEOLGIC FILTERAGRI-RUN-OFFTOURSIT SITE
BAPTISM SITECHURCH+POOL
THE RIVERTHE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGEOLOGIC FILTERS
AGRI-RUNOFF
TOWNJORDANIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSET
TREATMENT/RECHARGEAGRICULTURE
TRANSFORMED
PALESTINIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSETTREATMENT/RECHARGE
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiver
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
TOURISTIC - NATURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
SOUTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNPALESTINIAN
GEOLGIC FILTERAGRI-RUN-OFFTOURSIT SITE
BAPTISM SITECHURCH+POOL
THE RIVERTHE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGEOLOGIC FILTERS
AGRI-RUNOFF
TOWNJORDANIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSET
TREATMENT/RECHARGEAGRICULTURE
TRANSFORMED
PALESTINIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSETTREATMENT/RECHARGE
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiver
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
BAPTISM SITE ECO- RESERVE
SOUTH The southern end of the Jordan River Valley - Where the River meets the Dead Sea -is claimed to be the historic location of baptism of Jesus. The level of contamination in the water has rendered the river inaccessible to the millions of tourists and pilgrims who visit the site every year. Instead baptisms take place in a camouflaged pool with imported water. The region surrounding the site is proposed to be transformed into an ecological reserve and habitat. Its importance as an aquifer recharge zone, proximity to tourist zones, and a too high salinity soil for agriculture makes it the ideal place for the a preserve of Tamarisks Poplars. and wild life.
TOURISTIC - NATURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
SOUTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNPALESTINIAN
GEOLGIC FILTERAGRI-RUN-OFFTOURSIT SITE
BAPTISM SITECHURCH+POOL
THE RIVERTHE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGEOLOGIC FILTERS
AGRI-RUNOFF
TOWNJORDANIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSET
TREATMENT/RECHARGEAGRICULTURE
TRANSFORMED
PALESTINIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSETTREATMENT/RECHARGE
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiver
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
TOURISTIC - NATURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
SOUTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNPALESTINIAN
GEOLGIC FILTERAGRI-RUN-OFFTOURSIT SITE
BAPTISM SITECHURCH+POOL
THE RIVERTHE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGEOLOGIC FILTERS
AGRI-RUNOFF
TOWNJORDANIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSET
TREATMENT/RECHARGEAGRICULTURE
TRANSFORMED
PALESTINIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSETTREATMENT/RECHARGE
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiver
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
south end: baptism site eco-reserve
The southern end of the Jordan River Valley - Where the River meets the Dead Sea -is claimed to be the historic location of baptism of Jesus. The level of contamination in the water has rendered the river inaccessible to the millions of tourists and pilgrims who visit the site every year. Instead baptisms take place in a camouflaged pool with imported water. The region surrounding the site is proposed to be transformed into an ecological reserve and habitat. Its importance as an aquifer recharge zone proximity to tourist zones, and a too high salinity soil for agriculture makes it the ideal place for the a preserve of Tamarisks Poplars and wild life.
peripheral effects
14
BAPTISM SITE ECO- RESERVE
SOUTH The southern end of the Jordan River Valley - Where the River meets the Dead Sea -is claimed to be the historic location of baptism of Jesus. The level of contamination in the water has rendered the river inaccessible to the millions of tourists and pilgrims who visit the site every year. Instead baptisms take place in a camouflaged pool with imported water. The region surrounding the site is proposed to be transformed into an ecological reserve and habitat. Its importance as an aquifer recharge zone, proximity to tourist zones, and a too high salinity soil for agriculture makes it the ideal place for the a preserve of Tamarisks Poplars. and wild life.
TOURISTIC - NATURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
SOUTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNPALESTINIAN
GEOLGIC FILTERAGRI-RUN-OFFTOURSIT SITE
BAPTISM SITECHURCH+POOL
THE RIVERTHE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGEOLOGIC FILTERS
AGRI-RUNOFF
TOWNJORDANIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSET
TREATMENT/RECHARGEAGRICULTURE
TRANSFORMED
PALESTINIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSETTREATMENT/RECHARGE
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiver
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
TOURISTIC - NATURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
SOUTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNPALESTINIAN
GEOLGIC FILTERAGRI-RUN-OFFTOURSIT SITE
BAPTISM SITECHURCH+POOL
THE RIVERTHE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGEOLOGIC FILTERS
AGRI-RUNOFF
TOWNJORDANIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSET
TREATMENT/RECHARGEAGRICULTURE
TRANSFORMED
PALESTINIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSETTREATMENT/RECHARGE
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiver
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
BAPTISM SITE ECO- RESERVE
SOUTH The southern end of the Jordan River Valley - Where the River meets the Dead Sea -is claimed to be the historic location of baptism of Jesus. The level of contamination in the water has rendered the river inaccessible to the millions of tourists and pilgrims who visit the site every year. Instead baptisms take place in a camouflaged pool with imported water. The region surrounding the site is proposed to be transformed into an ecological reserve and habitat. Its importance as an aquifer recharge zone, proximity to tourist zones, and a too high salinity soil for agriculture makes it the ideal place for the a preserve of Tamarisks Poplars. and wild life.
TOURISTIC - NATURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
SOUTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNPALESTINIAN
GEOLGIC FILTERAGRI-RUN-OFFTOURSIT SITE
BAPTISM SITECHURCH+POOL
THE RIVERTHE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGEOLOGIC FILTERS
AGRI-RUNOFF
TOWNJORDANIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSET
TREATMENT/RECHARGEAGRICULTURE
TRANSFORMED
PALESTINIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSETTREATMENT/RECHARGE
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiver
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
TOURISTIC - NATURE
RECREATIONAL-INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISTIC - NATURE
URBAN-AGRICULTRUAL
SOUTH ZONE
AGRICULTURETRANSFORMED
JORDANIAN
TOWNPALESTINIAN
GEOLGIC FILTERAGRI-RUN-OFFTOURSIT SITE
BAPTISM SITECHURCH+POOL
THE RIVERTHE WINNER
OPEN SPACEGEOLOGIC FILTERS
AGRI-RUNOFF
TOWNJORDANIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSET
TREATMENT/RECHARGEAGRICULTURE
TRANSFORMED
PALESTINIAN
TAMRISK + POPLARFORSETTREATMENT/RECHARGE
LakeTiberias
DeadSea
JordanRiver
WASTE WATER
JORDANIANPONDS
south end: baptism site eco-reserve
The southern end of the Jordan River Valley - Where the River meets the Dead Sea -is claimed to be the historic location of baptism of Jesus. The level of contamination in the water has rendered the river inaccessible to the millions of tourists and pilgrims who visit the site every year. Instead baptisms take place in a camouflaged pool with imported water. The region surrounding the site is proposed to be transformed into an ecological reserve and habitat. Its importance as an aquifer recharge zone proximity to tourist zones, and a too high salinity soil for agriculture makes it the ideal place for the a preserve of Tamarisks Poplars and wild life.
peripheral effects
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