Urban Fragments in Dir Al- Sune

Liv Grete Strømme FramgardIn+Formal Architecture, Fall 2010- 2011Arch. Senan Abdelqader, Arch. Liat Brix-Etgar, Arch. Yoni Shaked, Arch Revital Saga

Urban fragments in Dir Al- SuneLiv Grete Strømme FramgardIn+Formal Studio

The primary motives of the project are:

1: urbanizing by increasing building density is environmentally friendly as buildings cast shadows on each other, giving a natural cooling effect. Shaded areas are needed for the comfort to play and relax. It also leaves larger open spaces that can be enjoyed by everyone, and create a better shared sfere that opens for the future inclusion in the urban fabric.

2: human scaleworking with variation, distance and scale, I wish to learn from traditional, informal building, and create a comfortable and unique environment.

3: social sustainability“the house with several faces” gives each housing unit access to different levels, and adaptability. Future generations might requre new uses or expand the house by turn-ing courtyards, terraces or semi-public space into new rooms.

4: the new and the oldtraditional elements such as the courtyard, which functiones as lightwell, ventilation and social arena, combined with modern roads and functional planning.

The qualities of an informally built environment

The non-uniformity of movement gives the signifi cant element of surprise. Self-constructed houses are built up around the human body, seen from eyehight an not from a masterplan. The conglomeration of these self-contained units, result in physical fragmentation and human scale environments where short distances create an intimacy with the space. Irregular shapes give each space a unique identity.

How can we translate the qualities of such informal architecture into a modern struc-ture that meets the needs of the inhabitants, has urban potential, yet keeps the scale of a local community?


Street structureWest and East Jerusalem

PositionClose to the Old City and Jerusalem City Centre, this area is still discon-nected and has a distinctly rural character.

Existing buildingsSite is empty but for one building

Existing roadsNarrow, unconnected dirt roads

Site: Dir al - Sune, Arab al Sawahre


View to westThe beauty of local architecture in a varying topography

FragmentationIn old arabic quarter, Fez, and East Jerusalem.

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Interpreting local housing orientations and typology

Fragments of East Jerusalem


Abstracts from Senan Abdelqader: Architecture of Dependency

“Some say that the city itself is culture, and that the history of culture is the history of the city. The absence of a city and urban life has had a crucial impact on the unique way in which the Arab siciety in the State of Israel has evolved. The im-pact of that vacuum is especiallly conspicous in the fi eld of culture” -Jamal Zahalka

“Having no control over the public sfere, they fi nd themselves in a state of self-defense in relation to it.. One may say that Palestinian society is devoid of public space” - Senan Abdelqader

“ Their only affi nity lies in their aspirations to imitate architectural patterns that have evoved elsewhere, usually in sites populated by Jewish Israelis, which greatly differ from them in culture, history and aspirations. (...) Such imitation is a hybrid and distortion of the neighbouring architectural patterns, in addition to its being alienated and even hostile to the cultural setting. (...) Thus, initiatives, whether private or collective, to uproot the various architectural instances of pol-lution and ugliness are of great signifi cance. (..) Such solutions venture to pick specifi c modes and elements from his-tory for themselves, without feeling burdened, and at the same time do not hesitate to adopt infl uences and concepts from foreign cultures. In this context it is important to emphasize that such elements and ideas are capable of renewing our affi nities with our land in a more aesthetic manner, affi nities that were distorted and even cut off in many cases.” -Nabih Bashir

Walls in East Jerusalem : local culture, a desire for privacy ?Adoption from the separation politics of the authorities?

Is this a provocation?


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Separating the private and the public without walls

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They each have an empty space which can be rented out or used for own commercial inter-ests.

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Urban Fragments in Dir Al- Sune