Thursday, November 28, 2013

Qalandia Refugee Camp


Phase I: Archival Background


Figure1: Qalandia refugee camp (source: palestine remembered)

Qalndia Camp was established in 1949 to the east of Qalndia Airport  after Al-Nakbah to home refugees from 49 villages and cites .( Map 1)

It’s situated in the east –west of the main street between Ramallah and Jerusalem, it is in the south of Al-Raam , in the east of Mukhmas’s  land, to the north of Kufur A’qab , and to the west of  Qalndia.When it  was established, it had an area of 230 acres, and this area increased to reach 353 acres now .

 In 1949, the number increased to 3000 persons, this number increased to 4800 person in 1967, but the last statistics indicate that the number reached to 19,000 person in 2010.There are many shops in the Camp, a medical clinic ,two schools for girls and boys ,etc.   Figure 1)

Map 1 : Qalandia Map  

Figure 2 : Overview of the Camp 

Figure 3 : Overview of the Camp 

Figure 4 : Panorama view for the camp



Phase II: Social Maps

These maps  included interesting and creative space-uses in the camp. Each of maps include a brief description about the specific case, its location in the Camp and some of images to clarify it.   

Map 2 : Eman's Sewn 

                                                     Map 3 : O'm Fayez and treatment burns  

 Map 4 : Emad disabled worker and his elevator 

Map 5 : Bridges 

Map 6 : Special needs and electronic capabilities 

Map 7 : Repair shoes 

 Phase III: Intervention in Qalndia Camp  

The intervention was held on Mon. 25/12/2013 in Basketball Camp playground in the child center from (3:00 pm - 5:pm). Independent on social mapping. Our main target was to engaged  with the neglected people living in the area, people with special needs who should have the normal life that everyone have. The intervention focused on the Camp's children participation . 


Figure 5 : Basketball playground were the intervention held 

Figure 6 : Basketball playground were the intervention held


                                                    
Figure 7 : Children  whom we involved in our event 

Figure 8 : Invitation card 

Activity #1: D-J Hadeel 

Hadeel who was born with physical difficulties, she helped us as a DJ mixer in the intervention and also happens to be an expert in fixing any electrical instrument.



Figure 9 : Hadeel works in the intervention 

 Video 1 : DJ-Hadeel                                                                


Activity #2: Graffiti Artist Jihad                            

 Jihad, is a skillful painter/artist, his role in the party was to draw a wall painting on the outside walls of children club, where we held our intervention. 


Figure 10 : Jihad paints at the wall of court 

Figure 11 : Children interaction with Jihad paints 

 Video 2 : Graffiti Artist- Jihad


Activity #3: Dabakeh Activity 

We arranged  a Dabkeh activity by a team for Qalandia children themselves, they presented for us one of their shows and the children shared them their dance and had fun.


Figure 12 : Dabkeh team   


 Video 3 : Dabkeh activity

Activity #4: Balloon and Sweets Distribution 

The activity was focused on the participation of the children,sweets were distributed as well as  balloons to those who answering a question right  . 


Figure 13:  Balloon distribution   

Figure 14:  Sweets distribution  

Video 4:  Balloon distribution




Phase IV: Documentary Movie
In our documentary, our main target was to show the life of the neglected disabled people living in the camp. From the social mapping, we chose Emad's case. The Documentary narrates Emad's story before and after his disability, and shows how he came up with a way to ease his movement problem in such difficult context, by his persistence and determination

To see the documentary trailer press the link below : 



                                                   
To see the full documentary press the link below :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bm_OFTBZKI&feature=youtu.be



Phase V: Final Product 

From the social mapping and the documentary movie, we decided to take Emad's issue to higher levels, so we made it our urban design issue. We decided to design for him thev elevator, a roof garden, and sheep's area . 


Step #1: Legibility Analysis  

To determine the urban needs in relation to the location and design issue, we did 30 community interviews in order to identify the visual form of the area by the Kevin Lynch principles (Paths, edges, district, nodes, landmarks). The final result was a legibility map that shows the mostly used districts, nodes, landmark, paths, and node in the camp.  

            
                                                           Map 8:  Legibility Map Analysis 

Step #2: Community Interviews  

We did 20 community interviews in order to determine the urban needs. The final result was the problem map that shows problems in the camp like (point of confusion, elastic intersection, characterless area, weak boundary and etc

 
                                                         Map 9 :  Problem Map Analysis  

Step #3: Design Workshop  

For preliminary determination of the design and the needs of design, the participation of Emad's family was taken into consideration, along with the issues found in the legibility analysis and problem maps. We also determined our available resources for implementation. 


                                                          Map 10:  Design Workshop   

From the problem map analysis and design workshop some design issues have been generated which related mainly to the site of the needed project. 

Figure 15:  Design Issue     


Step #4: Conceptual Analysis 

We combined the urban needs with Emad's family needs into a set of concepts for the final design

       

Map 11:  Conceptual Analysis   

Step #5: Physical Land Mark Analysis 

In this step, it was necessary to provide more than one proposal in order to reach the final proposal that is appropriate for the design of a landmark as an urban need in the context.

Figure 16:  Ball Analysis  1 


Figure 17:  Ball Analysis  2


Figure 18:  Minaret Analysis  1


Figure 19:  Minaret Analysis  2
    
Figure 20: Tower Analysis  1


Figure 21: Tower Analysis 2


Figure 22: Tree Analysis 1


Figure 23: Tree Analysis 2

Step #6: Emad's Roof Plan Design 

  

Map 12:  Structural Plan

Map 13:  Furniture Plan

Map 14:  Ventilation  Plan

Map 15:  Lighting Type Plan

Map 16:  Lighting Distribution Plan

Map 17:  Drainage Plan

Step #7: Design Elevations 


Figure 24: East Elevation 

Figure 25: South  Elevation

Figure 26: West  Elevation


Figure 27: North  Elevation


Step #7: Design Sections 


 Figure 28: Section A-A

Figure 29: Section B-B


Step #8: Design Details  



Figure 30: Design Details 


Step #9: Exterior Shots 

                          
                       
Figure 31: Current Situation 

Figure 32:  Exterior Proposal Shot 1 

Figure 33:  Exterior Proposal Shot 2



Figure 34:  Exterior Proposal Shot 3        


              

Figure 35: Exterior Proposal Shot 4        
      

Step #10: Interior Shots



                         
Figure 36: Garden           

         
Figure 37: Living Room 

Figure 38: Sheep Area

Step #11: Quantities Calculation 


 Figure 39: Quantitative Calculation 

Step #12: Project Donors 

·        Al-Said Gallery  - Em Elsharayet For Ceramic 
·        Eng.Said Marbou 
·        Daraghmeh Institution
·        teachers village society, Jerusalem


Step #13: Final Presentation 

In the final step of our project was the presentation of our work to Emad and the donors as well as some experts in the filed. Following the presentation was a discussion and feedback for us to start the implementation of  work. 

 Figure 40: Final Layout 

  Figure 41: During Our Performance  

           
Figure 42: During Our Performance


                         

Figure 43: Participation of the Clients            



                

Figure 44: Participation of the Clients

Figure 46: Reception of the Clients   


Figure 45:Urban Advanced Design Students