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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 9 - Case Study A

2014-01-28T19:56:05Z

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''' Planting Systems Along Transport Pathways '''

*''Motto:''
''A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance -but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. '''Roberto Burle Marx ''

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| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Bucharest''
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| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
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| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Elena Teodora Mihai''
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=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===

''''The selected site is composed by the planted areas nearby the transportation paths (railways, roads, highways and many others) that penetrate the capital city of Romania, Bucharest.We are looking at what types of plants are used in creating the landscape of the transportation paths, how a traveller perceives the plants as a train, a bus or a car is travelling with bigger or smaller speed.''''

* ''''Why did you select it?''''

I consider that studying the dynamics of the planting design structures along the transportation infrastructuctures that penetrate a town would give a general image about how planting is perceived by the local authorities of that town, or by general public. Everything started with travelling with train and questions about what you can see through the window of the train. Is it same as you walk or is it different? Of course it was different, so the perception of the same thing, in this case study, the vegetation groups is different as the speed of travel increases. Bucharest is the capital city of Romania, concentrating the widest variety and most complex transport infrastructure of the country. In the same time it is located in a plain area, the Romanian Plain, also known as the Wallachian Plain, with a temperate continental climate, being rich in plants that are characteristic for a plain area.

Within the Romanian Plain there can be found four general types of plants: central europeans( Quercus Pedunculata, Malus Silvestris, Crataegus monogyna, Cornus mas, Sorbus torminalis, Tilia cordata, Ulmus glabra); eurasian(different species of Populus, Salix and Ulmus); pontics( graminae); mediteranean( Quercus cerris, Quercus frainetto, Quercus sessiliflora, Quercus pubescens).

* '''Is it exemplary for a specific theme or a problem?'''

It's an exemplary of mobility planting landscape along with the problems that come from various planting ways.''

* ''''In how far does it relate to your life?''''

It affects my life everytime I travel with train or bus or other transport mean, everything that is planted left or right side of the transport path is sometimes what accompanies me and many others in our trips.''

=== Author's perspective ===
*My name is Elena and I had graduated Urban Design and Planning.

*After graduation I wanted a different path in my life and therefor I went for Master in Landscape Architecture in the same university , out of passion for plants and gardening and looking for an alternative to what is today's tendency of expansion of cities. Studies in Landscape Architecture actually brought a new set of challenges. In the virtue of my main study background I had chosen a case that is linked with the cities, but I wish to see it from a different perspective compared to what is usually seen either by a urban designer or by a landscape architect, and in that case I added the speed and I am trying to give answer to this question of how nature is perceived when we discuss of speed.

*With this case study I wish to raise a question about what can be perceived with the increase of speed by travelling. Normally landscape architects focus on how a certain area looks from a static point of view, but I wish to go further with this study. I am very much sure that had been many studies before regarding this aspect for many years, therefor the road designers know how to design the roads in order to avoid accidents and many other aspects, but here wish to talk about the perception aspect of the transport landscape. Considering speed, it's obvious a traveller will not consider singular plants but rather whole groups or planted massives. What will matter will be how big, how wide, what color, what texture that vegetation has. Given the speed the rythm can be diffeerent.

=== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ===
*''Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics''

''' Bucharest. Cultural Features'''

Bucharest is the capital city of Romania, situated at a latitude of "number", and a longitude of "number". It has 2 million inhabitants. It is the largest city of Romania, laying on the banks of river Dambovita, 70 km north to Danube. It was mentioned in the documents in 1459 and became capital of Romania in 1862 and it's the center of Romanian media, culture and art. Romanian legend has it that the city of Bucharest was founded on the banks of the Dambovita River by a shepherd named Bucur, whose name literarily means "joy." His flute playing reportedly dazzled the people and his hearty wine from nearby vineyards endeared him to the local traders, who gave his name to the place.

Bucharest is a city frequently depicted as an in the middle of situate and occident". Thus it could be acknowledged, as it is an European city with an un-common structure for both space-building conventions. The Bucharest scene is ruled by arrangement, by peculiar juxtapositions of striking innovation, rural custom (lord of provincial middle class space), cement totalitarian cuts, sub-urban half ad libbed neighbourhoods and Parisian synthetic. Its tissue is an astonishing result of a, recently universal, "take off all of a sudden" urban politic. It a hard-to-see city, stowed away by the inpatient visitor eye and who require delicate and long walking around uncover its soul.

Its gigantic fixed figure its scattered by green spots. Some of them are parks "à la française", some of them are "socialist current" stops, parcel of neglected regions full of secret and, a large portion of them, cosy private arrangements sifted by pretty much rash wall. These green structure is likewise an aftereffect of blending rationales. While the old center of the city full of courts and arrangements originated from the verifiable improvement of a somewhat oriental city, the primary parks are a consequence of 19's century French display both from spatial rationale and outline perspective. The levelness of his site is crossed by two watercourses. The main is the precise focal Dambovita, which came to be, in her long history, from a wild spread and full of imperativeness waterway, an ignoble channel in cement with filthy tan water. In the North side Colentina had an alternate predetermination as her sloppy water was changed in the 30es in a lake chain which structure a green urban stream.

Today, this rich urban scene appears to be debilitated by an unseeing ardor for business building design that gradually blankets what rests for the old delightful Bucharest. Urban legislative issues appears to disregard (aside from hypotheses and talks) all thought of scene, patrimony or excellence. The rationale at work is one of (too) late innovation, reviewing all colossal western mix-ups of the 50es or 60es. Tight functionalism is still on and green space is acknowledged as space and cash wasteful urban capacity and non-beneficial in a city that tries to reveal to its "western nerve". At the same time individuals start to recover general society space, to utilize and convert it.

'''Romanian Railways

The Romanian Railways started in 1880, even though there were built already some railway networks since 1854. "The railway network of Romania consists of 11,380 km (7,070 mi), of which 3,971 km (2,467 mi) (34.9%) are electrified, and the total track length is 22,247 km (13,824 mi), of which 8,585 km (5,334 mi) (38.5%) are electrified."[Wikipedia] The headquarter of Romanian Railways is in the capital city Bucharest.

"Between 1864 and 1880, several railways were constructed in the area of the Kingdom of Romania. On 1 September 1865, the English company John Trevor-Barkley began construction on the Bucharest–Giurgiu line. Commissioned by the King of Romania, the line was opened to traffic on 26 August 1869. The Bucharest-Giurgiu line was the first railway built on Romanian territory at that time (considering that the Oraviţa-Baziaş line was part of Austria-Hungary, even though it presently lies on Romanian territory)."[wikipedia]

Other lines that cross Bucharest were built in 1866 with the vote of the parliment. In 1868 Bucharest's North Station was finalised.

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

=== Analytical drawings ===
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
As seen in the analytical drawing 2 the cultural framework dominates clearly the natural dynamic, and the plants and entire nature are there to serve the culture: either as protection curtains or sometimes as agricultural plots. However the perception is not only built entirerly on the main plan but also the foreground needs to be taken into account. Considering this aspect I had made a short analize of how a 360 view would look like in analytical drawing 3 and what elements dominate the landscape there.
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
I've chosen to show what you can perceive from different means of transport: on water, from highway, from the train, or from a car in the town in different seasons. According to own perception the most dramatic images are obtained from train or sometimes from car, in autumn and winter.In autum the color of the leaves of the trees gives a romatic allure to the landscape, while in winter the presence of snow, reduced light, street lighting and presence of couples and of cultural celebrations like Cristmas and approaching holidays would give a very special hallow to the iamges taken.
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">
Image:railway network.jpg|'''Analytical map-Railways of Bucharest between 1870-2008 they usually show an industrial landscape '''
Image:Natural dymanic.jpg|'''Natural Dynamic vs Cultural Framework- a concept map of which conclusion is this case study is an obvious case in which the culture dominates nature because transport infrastructure nearby cities is an antropic environment created to serve the communication between one node(city) and another node(city/ village). The following concept map gives a simple description of the dominance relationship of culture to nature.
Image:Draft1.jpg|'''Analysis of Perception of an Entrance Road in Bucharest- where it is depicted the characteristics of plant groups for the southern part of entrance in the city
Image:Draft3.jpg|'''Dynamic throughout the year
Image:DSCF8451.jpg|'''Nature vs Culture- Culture Dominance. Entrance in Bucharest-A1 HIghway
Image:DSCF8452.jpg|'''Analytical Map- Macroteritorial Landscape of Bucharest nearby Vegetation
Image:DSCF8453.jpg|'''Analytical Sketch- E81 Entrance in Bucharest( West). Sequence of Vegetation
Image:DSCF8454.jpg|'''Analytical Sketch-Side perception. Roadside Zoom of Vegetation
</gallery>

=== Projective drawings ===
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
Because Bucharest is a city that benefits both from its beautiful lakes but also from presence of river Dambovita I would like to see that local authorities would start to consider planting more local trees, that would later on form surrounding forests. It would be also nice to see bigger use of groups of vegetation, shrubs and why not a wider variety of colors. What I don't like about nowadays entrance in Bucharest is the waste management and I think this can be improved.
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''
Considering the fact that maybe some forestation process would start in 10-15 years there would be seen some real results. Of course it's fairly difficult to anticipate how things will look like in 2028-2030. I think probably the infrastructure today would go wider and probably in that time frame it would be possible to see first speed train also in Bucharest. Green walls are a good idea to consider in the stations, as for outside town small things like forestation and/or proper waste management can improve dramatically the image nowadays.

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Prop1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:Prop2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:Draft4.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:Unbenannt_1.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

=== Summary and conclusion ===
''Please summarize your case and give arguments for your projective design (approx 150 words).''
To sum up, I would like to say that simple changes can really improve the aspect of nowadays transport pathways. I believe in use of vegetation and landscape architecture to improve the quality of life standard in a town, therfor my suggestion for the projective design are green walls for the outer train stations and a forest ring for the town or at least marking the most important entries in the town with studied shapes and forms regarding vegetation. Agricultural fields can be combined in interesting forms with groups of massive trees. The results will not be seen in a moment, but I think that is the beauty of a landscape that it's constantly changing, though some of the elements might remain a constant. Of course there is no such thing as a unique solution, but some arguments for proceeding such way would be raising the atractiveness of the city and also the quality of Bucharest's air.

=== Image Gallery ===
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:imag3.JPG|image 1
Image:imag2.jpg|image 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

=== References ===

*http://www.unibuc.ro/prof/sandulache_m_i/Campia_Romana_-_curs_3.php
*http://www.romaniatourism.com/bucharest.html
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucharest
*http://www.urban-landscape.net/content_public/city_details.php?stadt_id=161

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-28T19:53:06Z

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'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
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| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
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| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena Mihai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Amman Context Layers.jpg|Context Layers
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

4- Analytic drawings '''approaches'''

'''Approach A'''
<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
</gallery>

'''Approach B'''
<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

'''Approach C'''
<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Context, Pedestrain Bridge Physical Analysis.jpg|Context, Pedestrian Bridge Physical Analysis
Image:Pedestrian Bridges Components .jpg|Pedestrian Bridges Components
Image:Scenario A.jpg|Scenario A, potentials and problems
Image:Scenario B.jpg|Scenario B, problems
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

Case study of '''pedestrian bridge envisoned by Heatherwick Studio''';way for Londoners to safely commute from the North to the South side of the city that doesn’t involve the hassle of waiting for a bus, squeezing onto the overcrowded “Tube,” or sitting in mind-numbing traffic, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges

Also casestudy of another pedestrian bridge from '''Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge''', source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069

== Projective drawings ==

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:pedestian gridge sketch.jpg|
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
Image:Scenerio A Proposal.jpg|Scenerio '''A''' Proposal
Image:Scenerio B Proposal.jpg|Scenerio '''B''' Proposal
Image:Scenerio C Proposal.jpg|Scenerio '''C''' Proposal

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Zusammenfassung_mit_legende.jpg|MAP
Image:Concept_map_synt..jpg|SWOT
Image:Pedestrian bridge plant proposal.png|bridge perspective
Image:Photo montage.jpg|photo montage
Image:Bridge detail.jpg|detail
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
The design area was chosen after each member came with an idea of '''a possible theme'''. Each theme was discussed and we '''concluded that pedestrian bridges in Amman was the subject that was right for us'''. Then, before we started thinking about analytical drawings we asked ourselves what do we want from this project, what exactly we want to design and what will be the purpose of that design, and so our '''objectives''' were born. ''Our aim'' was to create a green network and to serve also on social levels using the designs, more exactly to consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network. Later on we learned more about the site, we had statistics and plenty of information about the area and how everything developped. Each of us sees things in a different way due to our '''different professional background''', so we found necessary to divide '''the analytical phase''' into '''several different approaches''' that would meet the need of the team. However in the projective drawing phase our '''concept''' about what can be are slightly alike, with differences regarding the shapes and design, so for us the '''synthesis was a process of sincretism mostly'''. Having reached the end of our project we think we had achieved what we wanted at fist from our designs, that they meet the objectives we formulated at first, but there is always place for improvement. We also learned more about ourselves and about others. This was for short a description of a semester of meetings, discussions and work.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069 ;
* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges ;
* https://maps.google.ro/maps?q=amman&hl=ro&sll=44.437833,26.095893&sspn=0.281417,0.617294&t=h&hnear=Amman,+Iordania&z=16
*

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'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges
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| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
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| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
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| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Amman Context Layers.jpg|Context Layers
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

4- Analytic drawings '''approaches'''

'''Approach A'''
<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
</gallery>

'''Approach B'''
<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

'''Approach C'''
<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Context, Pedestrain Bridge Physical Analysis.jpg|Context, Pedestrian Bridge Physical Analysis
Image:Pedestrian Bridges Components .jpg|Pedestrian Bridges Components
Image:Scenario A.jpg|Scenario A, potentials and problems
Image:Scenario B.jpg|Scenario B, problems
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

Case study of '''pedestrian bridge envisoned by Heatherwick Studio''';way for Londoners to safely commute from the North to the South side of the city that doesn’t involve the hassle of waiting for a bus, squeezing onto the overcrowded “Tube,” or sitting in mind-numbing traffic, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges

Also casestudy of another pedestrian bridge from '''Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge''', source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069

== Projective drawings ==

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:pedestian gridge sketch.jpg|
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
Image:Scenerio A Proposal.jpg|Scenerio '''A''' Proposal
Image:Scenerio B Proposal.jpg|Scenerio '''B''' Proposal
Image:Scenerio C Proposal.jpg|Scenerio '''C''' Proposal

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Zusammenfassung_mit_legende.jpg|MAP
Image:Concept_map_synt..jpg|SWOT
Image:Pedestrian bridge plant proposal.png|bridge perspective
Image:Photo montage.jpg|photo montage
Image:Bridge detail.jpg|detail
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
The design area was chosen after each member came with an idea of '''a possible theme'''. Each theme was discussed and we '''concluded that pedestrian bridges in Amman was the subject that was right for us'''. Then, before we started thinking about analytical drawings we asked ourselves what do we want from this project, what exactly we want to design and what will be the purpose of that design, and so our '''objectives''' were born. ''Our aim'' was to create a green network and to serve also on social levels using the designs, more exactly to consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network. Later on we learned more about the site, we had statistics and plenty of information about the area and how everything developped. Each of us sees things in a different way due to our '''different professional background''', so we found necessary to divide '''the analytical phase''' into '''several different approaches''' that would meet the need of the team. However in the projective drawing phase our '''concept''' about what can be are slightly alike, with differences regarding the shapes and design, so for us the '''synthesis was a process of sincretism mostly'''. Having reached the end of our project we think we had achieved what we wanted at fist from our designs, that they meet the objectives we formulated at first, but there is always place for improvement. We also learned more about ourselves and about others. This was for short a description of a semester of meetings, discussions and work.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069 ;
* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges ;
* https://maps.google.ro/maps?q=amman&hl=ro&sll=44.437833,26.095893&sspn=0.281417,0.617294&t=h&hnear=Amman,+Iordania&z=16
*

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File:Pedestrian bridge plant proposal.png

2014-01-28T18:42:24Z

Helenapatra:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-28T17:19:23Z

Helenapatra: /* Case Studies */

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'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
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|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Amman Context Layers.jpg|Context Layers
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

4- Analytic drawings '''approaches'''

'''Approach A'''
<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
</gallery>

'''Approach B'''
<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

'''Approach C'''
<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Context, Pedestrain Bridge Physical Analysis.jpg|Context, Pedestrian Bridge Physical Analysis
Image:Pedestrian Bridges Components .jpg|Pedestrian Bridges Components
Image:Scenario A.jpg|Scenario A, potentials and problems
Image:Scenario B.jpg|Scenario B, problems
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

Case study of '''pedestrian bridge envisoned by Heatherwick Studio''';way for Londoners to safely commute from the North to the South side of the city that doesn’t involve the hassle of waiting for a bus, squeezing onto the overcrowded “Tube,” or sitting in mind-numbing traffic, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges

Also casestudy of another pedestrian bridge from '''Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge''', source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069

== Projective drawings ==

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:pedestian gridge sketch.jpg|
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
Image:Scenerio A Proposal.jpg|Scenerio '''A''' Proposal

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Zusammenfassung_mit_legende.jpg|MAP
Image:Concept_map_synt..jpg|SWOT
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|sketch
Image:Photo montage.jpg|photo montage
Image:Bridge detail.jpg|detail
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
The design area was chosen after each member came with an idea of '''a possible theme'''. Each theme was discussed and we '''concluded that pedestrian bridges in Amman was the subject that was right for us'''. Then, before we started thinking about analytical drawings we asked ourselves what do we want from this project, what exactly we want to design and what will be the purpose of that design, and so our '''objectives''' were born. ''Our aim'' was to create a green network and to serve also on social levels using the designs, more exactly to consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network. Later on we learned more about the site, we had statistics and plenty of information about the area and how everything developped. Each of us sees things in a different way due to our '''different professional background''', so we found necessary to divide '''the analytical phase''' into '''several different approaches''' that would meet the need of the team. However in the projective drawing phase our '''concept''' about what can be are slightly alike, with differences regarding the shapes and design, so for us the '''synthesis was a process of sincretism mostly'''. Having reached the end of our project we think we had achieved what we wanted at fist from our designs, that they meet the objectives we formulated at first, but there is always place for improvement. We also learned more about ourselves and about others. This was for short a description of a semester of meetings, discussions and work.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069 ;
* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges ;
* https://maps.google.ro/maps?q=amman&hl=ro&sll=44.437833,26.095893&sspn=0.281417,0.617294&t=h&hnear=Amman,+Iordania&z=16
*

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2014-01-28T17:18:02Z

Helenapatra: /* Summary of the collaborative process */

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'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
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|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Amman Context Layers.jpg|Context Layers
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

4- Analytic drawings '''approaches'''

'''Approach A'''
<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
</gallery>

'''Approach B'''
<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

'''Approach C'''
<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Context, Pedestrain Bridge Physical Analysis.jpg|Context, Pedestrian Bridge Physical Analysis
Image:Pedestrian Bridges Components .jpg|Pedestrian Bridges Components
Image:Scenario A.jpg|Scenario A, potentials and problems
Image:Scenario B.jpg|Scenario B, problems
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

Case study of pedestrian bridge envisoned by Heatherwick Studio;way for Londoners to safely commute from the North to the South side of the city that doesn’t involve the hassle of waiting for a bus, squeezing onto the overcrowded “Tube,” or sitting in mind-numbing traffic, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges

Also casestudy of another pedestrian bridge from Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069

== Projective drawings ==

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:pedestian gridge sketch.jpg|
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
Image:Scenerio A Proposal.jpg|Scenerio '''A''' Proposal

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Zusammenfassung_mit_legende.jpg|MAP
Image:Concept_map_synt..jpg|SWOT
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|sketch
Image:Photo montage.jpg|photo montage
Image:Bridge detail.jpg|detail
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
The design area was chosen after each member came with an idea of '''a possible theme'''. Each theme was discussed and we '''concluded that pedestrian bridges in Amman was the subject that was right for us'''. Then, before we started thinking about analytical drawings we asked ourselves what do we want from this project, what exactly we want to design and what will be the purpose of that design, and so our '''objectives''' were born. ''Our aim'' was to create a green network and to serve also on social levels using the designs, more exactly to consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network. Later on we learned more about the site, we had statistics and plenty of information about the area and how everything developped. Each of us sees things in a different way due to our '''different professional background''', so we found necessary to divide '''the analytical phase''' into '''several different approaches''' that would meet the need of the team. However in the projective drawing phase our '''concept''' about what can be are slightly alike, with differences regarding the shapes and design, so for us the '''synthesis was a process of sincretism mostly'''. Having reached the end of our project we think we had achieved what we wanted at fist from our designs, that they meet the objectives we formulated at first, but there is always place for improvement. We also learned more about ourselves and about others. This was for short a description of a semester of meetings, discussions and work.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069 ;
* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges ;
* https://maps.google.ro/maps?q=amman&hl=ro&sll=44.437833,26.095893&sspn=0.281417,0.617294&t=h&hnear=Amman,+Iordania&z=16
*

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-28T17:12:49Z

Helenapatra: /* Summary of the collaborative process */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Amman Context Layers.jpg|Context Layers
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

4- Analytic drawings '''approaches'''

'''Approach A'''
<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
</gallery>

'''Approach B'''
<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

'''Approach C'''
<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Context, Pedestrain Bridge Physical Analysis.jpg|Context, Pedestrian Bridge Physical Analysis
Image:Pedestrian Bridges Components .jpg|Pedestrian Bridges Components
Image:Scenario A.jpg|Scenario A, potentials and problems
Image:Scenario B.jpg|Scenario B, problems
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

Case study of pedestrian bridge envisoned by Heatherwick Studio;way for Londoners to safely commute from the North to the South side of the city that doesn’t involve the hassle of waiting for a bus, squeezing onto the overcrowded “Tube,” or sitting in mind-numbing traffic, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges

Also casestudy of another pedestrian bridge from Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069

== Projective drawings ==

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:pedestian gridge sketch.jpg|
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
Image:Scenerio A Proposal.jpg|Scenerio '''A''' Proposal

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Zusammenfassung_mit_legende.jpg|MAP
Image:Concept_map_synt..jpg|SWOT
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|sketch
Image:Photo montage.jpg|photo montage
Image:Bridge detail.jpg|detail
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
The design area was chosen after each member came with an idea of a possible theme. Each theme was discussed and we concluded that pedestrian bridges in Amman was the subject that was right for us. Then, before we started thinking about analytical drawings we asked ourselves what do we want from this project, what exactly we want to design and what will be the purpose of that design, and so our objectives were born. Our aim was to create a green network and to serve also on social levels using the designs, more exactly to consolidate the fragility in East and West Amman by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network. Later on we learned more about the site, we had statistics and plenty of information about the area and how everything developped. Each of us sees things in a different way due to our different professional background, so we found necessary to divide the analytical phase into several different approaches that would meet the need of the team. However in the projective drawing phase our concept about what can be are slightly alike, with differences regarding the shapes and design, so for us the synthesis was a process of sincretism mostly. Having reached the end of our project we think we had achieved what we wanted at fist from our designs, that they meet the objectives we formulated at first, but there is always place for improvement. We also learned more about ourselves and about others. This was for short a description of a semester of meetings, discussions and work.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069 ;
* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges ;
* https://maps.google.ro/maps?q=amman&hl=ro&sll=44.437833,26.095893&sspn=0.281417,0.617294&t=h&hnear=Amman,+Iordania&z=16
*

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2014-01-27T18:26:32Z

Helenapatra: /* Design Synthesis */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
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|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

Case study of pedestrian bridge envisoned by Heatherwick Studio;way for Londoners to safely commute from the North to the South side of the city that doesn’t involve the hassle of waiting for a bus, squeezing onto the overcrowded “Tube,” or sitting in mind-numbing traffic, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges

Also casestudy of another pedestrian bridge from Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:pedestian gridge sketch.jpg|
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|MAP
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|SWOT
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|sketch
Image:Photo montage.jpg|photo montage
Image:Bridge detail.jpg|detail
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069 ;
* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges ;
* https://maps.google.ro/maps?q=amman&hl=ro&sll=44.437833,26.095893&sspn=0.281417,0.617294&t=h&hnear=Amman,+Iordania&z=16
*

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File:Photo montage.jpg

2014-01-27T18:25:32Z

Helenapatra:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-27T18:25:00Z

Helenapatra: /* Design Synthesis */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
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|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Moa.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
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|height=200
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|zoom=10
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

Case study of pedestrian bridge envisoned by Heatherwick Studio;way for Londoners to safely commute from the North to the South side of the city that doesn’t involve the hassle of waiting for a bus, squeezing onto the overcrowded “Tube,” or sitting in mind-numbing traffic, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges

Also casestudy of another pedestrian bridge from Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:pedestian gridge sketch.jpg|
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|MAP
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|SWOT
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|sketch
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|photo montage
Image:Bridge detail.jpg|detail
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069 ;
* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges ;
* https://maps.google.ro/maps?q=amman&hl=ro&sll=44.437833,26.095893&sspn=0.281417,0.617294&t=h&hnear=Amman,+Iordania&z=16
*

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File:Bridge detail.jpg

2014-01-27T18:23:51Z

Helenapatra:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-27T18:23:06Z

Helenapatra: /* Design Synthesis */

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'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

Case study of pedestrian bridge envisoned by Heatherwick Studio;way for Londoners to safely commute from the North to the South side of the city that doesn’t involve the hassle of waiting for a bus, squeezing onto the overcrowded “Tube,” or sitting in mind-numbing traffic, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges

Also casestudy of another pedestrian bridge from Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:pedestian gridge sketch.jpg|
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|MAP
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|SWOT
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|sketch
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|photo montage
Image:yourfilename5.jpg|detail
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069 ;
* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges ;
* https://maps.google.ro/maps?q=amman&hl=ro&sll=44.437833,26.095893&sspn=0.281417,0.617294&t=h&hnear=Amman,+Iordania&z=16
*

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-27T01:11:20Z

Helenapatra: /* References */

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'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
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|-
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|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

Case study of pedestrian bridge envisoned by Heatherwick Studio;way for Londoners to safely commute from the North to the South side of the city that doesn’t involve the hassle of waiting for a bus, squeezing onto the overcrowded “Tube,” or sitting in mind-numbing traffic, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges

Also casestudy of another pedestrian bridge from Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069 ;
* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges ;
* https://maps.google.ro/maps?q=amman&hl=ro&sll=44.437833,26.095893&sspn=0.281417,0.617294&t=h&hnear=Amman,+Iordania&z=16
*

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-27T01:10:53Z

Helenapatra: /* References */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Moa.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
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|width=300
|height=200
|lat=31.95
|lng=35.9
|zoom=10
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

Case study of pedestrian bridge envisoned by Heatherwick Studio;way for Londoners to safely commute from the North to the South side of the city that doesn’t involve the hassle of waiting for a bus, squeezing onto the overcrowded “Tube,” or sitting in mind-numbing traffic, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges

Also casestudy of another pedestrian bridge from Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069 ;
* http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges ;
* https://maps.google.ro/maps?q=amman&hl=ro&sll=44.437833,26.095893&sspn=0.281417,0.617294&t=h&hnear=Amman,+Iordania&z=16 ;

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'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

Case study of pedestrian bridge envisoned by Heatherwick Studio;way for Londoners to safely commute from the North to the South side of the city that doesn’t involve the hassle of waiting for a bus, squeezing onto the overcrowded “Tube,” or sitting in mind-numbing traffic, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges

Also casestudy of another pedestrian bridge from Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069 ;
http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges ;
https://maps.google.ro/maps?q=amman&hl=ro&sll=44.437833,26.095893&sspn=0.281417,0.617294&t=h&hnear=Amman,+Iordania&z=16 ;

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2014-01-27T01:09:35Z

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'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
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|-
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|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

Case study of pedestrian bridge envisoned by Heatherwick Studio;way for Londoners to safely commute from the North to the South side of the city that doesn’t involve the hassle of waiting for a bus, squeezing onto the overcrowded “Tube,” or sitting in mind-numbing traffic, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges

Also casestudy of another pedestrian bridge from Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069
http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges
https://maps.google.ro/maps?q=amman&hl=ro&sll=44.437833,26.095893&sspn=0.281417,0.617294&t=h&hnear=Amman,+Iordania&z=16

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'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Moa.jpg|300px]]
|-
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|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| {{#widget:GoogleMaps
|width=300
|height=200
|lat=31.95
|lng=35.9
|zoom=10
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

Case study of pedestrian bridge envisoned by Heatherwick Studio;way for Londoners to safely commute from the North to the South side of the city that doesn’t involve the hassle of waiting for a bus, squeezing onto the overcrowded “Tube,” or sitting in mind-numbing traffic, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges

Also casestudy of another pedestrian bridge from Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

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2014-01-27T01:07:04Z

Helenapatra: /* Case Studies */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Moa.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
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|height=200
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|lng=35.9
|zoom=10
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

casestudy of pedestrian bridge envisoned by Heatherwick Studio;way for Londoners to safely commute from the North to the South side of the city that doesn’t involve the hassle of waiting for a bus, squeezing onto the overcrowded “Tube,” or sitting in mind-numbing traffic, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges
also casestudy of another pedestrian bridge from Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51069

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

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2014-01-27T01:04:02Z

Helenapatra: /* Case Studies */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Moa.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| {{#widget:GoogleMaps
|width=300
|height=200
|lat=31.95
|lng=35.9
|zoom=10
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

<gallery caption ="Case studies "widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Case study 1.jpg|casestudy of pedestrian bridge envisoned by Heatherwick Studio;way for Londoners to safely commute from the North to the South side of the city that doesn’t involve the hassle of waiting for a bus, squeezing onto the overcrowded “Tube,” or sitting in mind-numbing traffic, source http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/tag/pedestrian-bridges
Image:yourdrawing.jpg|drawing
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

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File:Case study 1.jpg

2014-01-27T01:01:48Z

Helenapatra:

Planting Design 2013 - Working Group 9

2014-01-25T11:42:35Z

Helenapatra: /* Assignment 2 - Lecture Concept Map */

--> Back to [[Working_Groups_Seminar_International_Perspectives_Planting_Design_2013|working group overview]]

''Dear working group members. This is your group page and you will be completing the template gradually as we move through the seminar. Each member has an individual page for documenting his/her personal case. Good luck and enjoy your collaboration!
''

== Assignment 2 - Lecture Concept Map ==
*''The list with the group distribution shows you which lecture your group is supposed to document in the concept map format.''
*''Please add your collaborative concept map here by replacing the dummy image. Your map needs to have a new file name:''
In order to make this concept map we first considered the structure of the lecture and divided it into 3 themes: examples, history and theory. Afterwards we discussed all the keywords that we found important and their linking. We went through 2 types of map proposals, and 2 other types of possible linking of the themes. The results and the process are shown further.

<gallery caption=" " widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:New German Style Concept Map.jpg|'New German Style'
Image:Concept_map_working_process.jpg|'The working process of the concept map from the first brainstorming to the final concept map.'
</gallery>

== Assignment 3 - Images of Nature in your Environment ==

*'''Assigned: Wednesday, October 30'''
*'''Due: Tuesday, December 3'''

''An 'image of nature' can be any planting design or vegetation structure. It might be on a local scale in your direct vicinity or be a part of a wider landscape structure. Each group member finds an individual page here that links to a template. You can use this template for documenting your case.''

=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 9 - Case Study A|Case Study A]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 9 - Case Study B|Case Study B]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 9 - Case Study C|Case Study C]] ===

=== Presentation Slides Assignment 3 ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Template_Assignment3-group_09-slide1.jpg|slide 1
Image:Template_Assignment3-group_09-slide2.jpg|slide 2
Image:Template_Assignment3-group_09-slide3.jpg|slide 3
</gallery>

== Assignment 4 - Collaborative Planting Design ==

*'''Assigned: Wednesday, December 4'''
*'''Due: Tuesday, January 21'''

==='''[[Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9|Collaborative Design Working Group 9]]'''===

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-24T15:21:36Z

Helenapatra: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Moa.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| {{#widget:GoogleMaps
|width=300
|height=200
|lat=31.95
|lng=35.9
|zoom=10
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

<gallery caption ="Case studies "widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourdrawing1.jpg|drawing
Image:yourdrawing.jpg|drawing
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|Detail from the bridge
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-24T15:20:37Z

Helenapatra: /* Image Gallery */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

<gallery caption ="Case studies "widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourdrawing1.jpg|drawing
Image:yourdrawing.jpg|drawing
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-24T15:19:24Z

Helenapatra: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

<gallery caption ="Case studies "widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourdrawing1.jpg|drawing
Image:yourdrawing.jpg|drawing
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|image 1
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-24T15:18:37Z

Helenapatra: /* Image Gallery */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
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|-
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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Moa.jpg|300px]]
|-
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|-
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|lng=35.9
|zoom=10
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|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''Concept Mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

3- Analyzing two different pedestrian bridges in location '''Amman, East and West''' '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Amman West (Jubayhah), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman West (Jubayhah), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
Image:Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Zone Analysis.jpg|Amman East (Ras Al-Ein), Pedestrian Bridge Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

<gallery caption ="Case studies "widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourdrawing1.jpg|drawing
Image:yourdrawing.jpg|drawing
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Detail bridge.jpg|image 1
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:20140124_115741.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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File:Detail bridge.jpg

2014-01-24T15:17:05Z

Helenapatra:

File:Analise 2.jpg

2014-01-22T18:50:56Z

Helenapatra: uploaded a new version of "File:Analise 2.jpg"

macroteritorial textures analyse, E.M

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-22T17:47:32Z

Helenapatra: /* Image Gallery */

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'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

<gallery caption ="Case studies "widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourdrawing1.jpg|drawing
Image:yourdrawing.jpg|drawing
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Detail bridge.png|image 1
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-22T17:47:11Z

Helenapatra: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
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|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

<gallery caption ="Case studies "widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourdrawing1.jpg|drawing
Image:yourdrawing.jpg|drawing
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">
Image:Detail bridge.png|image 1
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-22T17:45:56Z

Helenapatra: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges
|-
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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Moa.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
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|lng=35.9
|zoom=10
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

<gallery caption ="Case studies "widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourdrawing1.jpg|drawing
Image:yourdrawing.jpg|drawing
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">
Image:Detail bridge.png|image 1
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-22T17:45:28Z

Helenapatra: /* Image Gallery */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Moa.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| {{#widget:GoogleMaps
|width=300
|height=200
|lat=31.95
|lng=35.9
|zoom=10
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

<gallery caption ="Case studies "widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourdrawing1.jpg|drawing
Image:yourdrawing.jpg|drawing
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">
Image:Detail bridge.png|image 1
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
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|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

<gallery caption ="Case studies "widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourdrawing1.jpg|drawing
Image:yourdrawing.jpg|drawing
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Detail bridge.png|image 1
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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2014-01-22T17:36:47Z

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'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Case Studies ==

<gallery caption ="Case studies "widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4"
Image:yourdrawing1.jpg|drawing
Image:yourdrawing.jpg|drawing
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Detail bridge.png|image 1
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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2014-01-22T17:35:39Z

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'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Moa.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
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|lng=35.9
|zoom=10
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

==Case Studies==
<gallery caption ="Case studies "widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4"
Image:yourdrawing1.jpg|drawing
Image:yourdrawing.jpg|drawing
</gallery>
== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Detail bridge.png|image 1
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-22T17:32:27Z

Helenapatra: /* Analytical drawings */

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'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
Image:City shape.png|city shape, there are basicly 2 force lines depends as you are looking at the town of Amman, you can see it from street point of view or you can see it as how it is positioned regarding the elements of nature, more specific the desrt. A further integrated approach of any type of design shood consider the image of the town and relationship with nature elements
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Detail bridge.png|image 1
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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File:City shape.png

2014-01-22T17:29:13Z

Helenapatra:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-22T17:11:32Z

Helenapatra: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:El.jpg|in 20 years and in 50 years prospective design the way it might become
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Detail bridge.png|image 1
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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File:El.jpg

2014-01-22T17:08:52Z

Helenapatra:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-22T16:54:38Z

Helenapatra: /* Image Gallery */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Moa.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
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|zoom=10
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Detail bridge.png|image 1
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:Elena sketch 3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
[[Category:Planting Design 2013 Collaborative Design]]

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File:Elena sketch 3.jpg

2014-01-22T16:53:37Z

Helenapatra:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-22T16:44:39Z

Helenapatra: /* Image Gallery */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Moa.jpg|300px]]
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Detail bridge.png|image 1
Image:Elena sketch1.jpg|image 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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2014-01-22T16:43:38Z

Helenapatra:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-21T16:31:09Z

Helenapatra: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Detail bridge.png|image 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-21T16:07:53Z

Helenapatra: /* Image Gallery */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
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|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Detail bridge.png|image 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
[[Category:Planting Design 2013 Collaborative Design]]

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-21T16:07:02Z

Helenapatra: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Moa.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| {{#widget:GoogleMaps
|width=300
|height=200
|lat=31.95
|lng=35.9
|zoom=10
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|image 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-21T16:06:20Z

Helenapatra: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
Image:Detail bridge.png|proposal sketch for detail involving planting on bridge support wall
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|image 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
[[Category:Planting Design 2013 Collaborative Design]]

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File:Detail bridge.png

2014-01-21T16:04:16Z

Helenapatra: detail from bridge

detail from bridge

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-21T14:53:04Z

Helenapatra: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_9|working group 9]]

'''''The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| The Green Network of the Pedestrian Bridges
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Amman عمان
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Jordan
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|Elena MIhai, Esra' Najjar, Michael Biederer
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Moa.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| {{#widget:GoogleMaps
|width=300
|height=200
|lat=31.95
|lng=35.9
|zoom=10
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

The Unfriendly Pedestrian City, The Unwalkable City, The City of the Pedestrian Bridges, The throttling Congestion, The sightless Sidewalks, The City of Flux and The Automobile City are all terms that describe the transport system of the city of Amman. Amman, the capital city of Jordan, began with the arrival of Circassians immigrants in 1878. Circassians resettled the valley (Wadi Amman).

The historical statistical studies estimate that between 2000-3000 inhabitants have settled in Amman in 1800-1900. In 1920, Amman has been declared as the capital city, the city began to creep up the slopes of the surroundings hills and spreads over the mountain tops. Amman is situated in a hilly area of north-western Jordan. The city was originally built on seven hills, but now spans over an area of nineteen hills (each known as a Jabal).

Currently, Amman has a population in excess 2 million. The growth of Amman from the 1920s to the present has been phenomenal; in terms of its population, physical extent and regional geopolitical importance. ''The phenomenal growth of the urban area in both size and significance has occurred in “drastic growth spurts that have transformed the look and feel of the city…and its connections with the outside world” (al-Asad 2005).''

The unexpected phenomenal growth and the limited future planning conducted fundamental challenges in Transport System and Open Public Spaces. ''If there is a single word that characterizes the urban transport system of Amman it is ‘congestion’. Al-Asad (2005) has lamented that since the 1990s Amman has “become a more congested city in which it is increasingly difficult to drive, and through which it is almost impossible to walk”.''

A significant defiance is the priority of pedestrians in Amman streets. Crossing a number of Amman's busy streets is a nerve-wrecking and life-threatening experience. The conversion of numerous traffic light intersections into underpasses and overpasses has made life even more difficult for pedestrians. Thus, the Greater Amman Municipality suggested starting creating Pedestrian Bridges, Foot Bridges or overhead bridges as an immediate solution for the non-functional sidewalks and to the threatening experience in streets crossing. However, pedestrian bridges are not the distinctive solution, the equivalent of about two floors to cross a street; the unclean, unsafe, unlighted bridges are unattractive nodes for pedestrians.

Pedestrian bridges have been established in the late 1980s, they were built somewhere in the last 20-30 years. So historically, they still can’t be added to the main structural layers of the transport systems.

'''At the end, some questions that are raised as, How can we attract the pedestrians to better use of the overhead bridges? Can the bridges modify to be Public Green Spaces? And can the bridges link Amman East and West?'''

<gallery caption="Context and Statistics " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Circassians Immigrants in 1878.jpg|Circassians Immigrants
Image:Amman Expansion.jpg|Amman Expansion
Image:Traffic Accidents Statistics.jpg|Traffic Accidents Statistics
</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

- Preserving ecology by establishing '''a green network''' - landscape, making possible a link through Amman using native plants-awareness of sustainability and quality of life.

- Implement '''sustainable design approaches''' for creating the green network by using the obtainable resources and easily maintainable bridges that allows future modification.

- Re-define the '''term public space''' in a society that the term is only relating to shopping malls and very few parks.

- Promote the green network as a major element in developing '''renewable energy''' (natural cooling systems and green –courtyards- platforms).

- Enriching the image of the city for pedestrians, by encouraging '''the safe crossing''' through an '''attractive experience'''.

- Consolidate '''the fragility''' in '''East and West Amman''' by creating a perceptual correlation due to the green overhead bridges network.

== Analytical drawings ==

''''Analysis Phases'''

1- Understanding and analyzing the context of the case through '''concept mapping''''

<gallery =>
Image:Understanding the Context, Concept Map.jpg|Understanding the Context, Concept Map
</gallery>

2- After many discussions of the main potentials and problems, the group has decided to involve the social layer through '''Questionnaire''' on the network of the pedestrian bridges '

<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Sample of the Questionnaire Form.jpg|Sample of the Questionnaire Form
Image:Questionnaire Findings .jpg|Questionnaire Findings
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Green connection1.jpg|green connection in Amman, current situation, analytical drawing done by Michael Biederer
Image:Analyse 1.jpg|urban context in Amman, current situation of pedestrian bridges E.M.
Image:Analise 2.jpg|urban textures, textures are important because they can give a general picture of what is happening in a teritory and what type of structure is predominat there
Image:Plants in jordan.png|some of the local plants in Jordan, these matter as for further design material
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal sketch 1.jpg|proposal sketch 1, proposal of 2 types of shading systems, 1 involving solar panels and the other one involving classical pergola system along with using Hedra helix as decorative plant
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the West of Amman
Image:Connection_of_the_p.bridges2.jpg|green connection between the pedestrian bridges in the East of Amman
Image:Propsal sketch 2.jpg|proposal sketch 2, proposal for elevator and ramp for disabled people, building a support wall with nautural materials and incorporating plants to design
</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|synthesis drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|synthesis drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|synthesis drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|image 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
[[Category:Planting Design 2013 Collaborative Design]]

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 9

2014-01-21T14:50:13Z

Helenapatra: /* Analytical drawings */

File:Plants in jordan.png

2014-01-21T14:49:06Z

Helenapatra: some of the local plants in Jordan

some of the local plants in Jordan