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Donovan Gottsmann and Amira Osman open house international Vol.37 No.1, March 2012 Environments of change: an Open Building approach... R EF ERENCES BRAND, S. 1995, How Buildings Learn: what happens after they’re built, Penguin Books, New York. CITY OF TSHWANE DISASTER MANAGEMENT SERVICES. 2008, Disaster Risk Atlas, © 2008. City of Tshwane, Pretoria. DEBACKER, W. et al., 2006, The Hendrickx-Vanwalleghem design strategy. In W. De Wilde & C. Brebbia, eds. High Performance Structures and Materials III. WIT Press, p. 744. DEWAR, D. & UYTENBOGAARDT, H. 1991, South African cities: a manifesto for change. (Cape Town: Urban Problems Research Unit University of Cape Town). DURMISEVIC, E. 2006, Transformable Building Structures: design for disassembly as a way to introduce sustainable engi- neering to building design & construction. Doctoral thesis. Technische Universiteit Delft. GOTTSMANN, D. & OSMAN, A. 2010, Environments of Change: a design solution for an informal settlement in Mamelodi, CIB World Congress 2010, Building a Better World, May 10-13 2010, The Lowry, Salford Quays, United Kingdom. GOTTSMANN, D. 2009, Servant core in support of multi-func- tional service facilities, Master's Dissertation, University of Pretoria, South Africa. GROAK, S. 1992, The Idea of Building: thought and action in the design production of buildings, E & FN Spon, Great Britain. HABRAKEN, J. 1998, The Structure of the Ordinary Form and Control in the Built Environment. (Massachusetts: MIT Press). HAMDI, N. 2004, Small Change: about the art of practice and the limits of planning in cities. (London: Earthscan). LUKEZ, P. 2009, Urban Edges Transformed, in Time-Based Architecture International, Voume 6, June 2009. METROPLAN. 2006, Mamelodi Top 20 Priority Township Programme, Third Draft, Drafted for Gauteng provincial gov- ernment department of housing by Metroplan. OSMAN, A. and HERTHOGS, P. 2010, Medium Density Mixed Housing: sustainable design and construction of South African 8 2 Social Housing, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR Conference, Science Real and Relevant, 2010. OSMAN, A. and KONIGK, R. 2009, Educating for Flexibility: explorations into housing and urban environments in South Africa, Architecture SA March April 2009 PADUART, A., DEBACKER, W., HENROTAY, C., DE TEMMER- MAN, N., DE WILDE, W. P., HENDRICK, H. 2009, Transforming Cities: introducing adaptability in existing resi- dential buildings through reuse and disassembly strategies for retrofitting, http://www.irbnet.de/daten/iconda/CIB14274.pdf accessed 28.06.2010 13.07, Conference on Construction Material Stewardship – Lifecycle design of buildings, systems and materials. Conference Proceedings SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS, Awards for Excellence and Awards for Merit 2009-10, Jury report pub- lished, isbn: 978-0-620-42146-1, CTP Books UN-HABITAT. 2003, The Challenge of Slums: global report on human settlements 2003 / United Nations Human Settlements Programme, VA: Earthscan Publications Ltd., London and Sterling. OSMAN, A. and SEBAKE, N. 2010, “Time” as a key factor in design and technical decision-making: concepts of accessibility, affordability, participation, choice, variety and change in the South African housing sector, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR Conference, Science Real and Relevant, 2010. INTERVIEWS: PIETERSE, J. 2009, personal conversation , 25 May Authors’ Address: Donovan Gottsmann, 1cor12vs12@gmail.com. & Dr. Amira Osman aosman@csir.co.za Senior Researcher Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR, iPretoria, South Africa.
Abstract Ahmed Abu Al Haija Hundreds of Jordanian traditional villages are facing the serious risk of being demolished due to the shortage of basic public services and their resulting abandoned state. Important occurrences of vernacular architecture in these villages necessitate a national strategy to conserve the tangible and intangible heritage they offer, despite the economic difficulties that impede the local community in their efforts to protect or rehabilitate their long-established habitat and traditions. The case of Dana is a relevant example of these villages that are abandoned in spite of their considerable human and material potentialities. Therefore, analyses of place-oriented conceptual meaning, which affect man’s belonging to the place, and building typologies are developed in order to comprehend the traditional spatial composition and the interrogatives of conserving the original habitat for tourism purposes. Appropriate scenarios of administrative and technical approaches could better offer the local communities the conservation of memories, place identity and sustainable economic development, hopefully extendible to other situations in traditional villages. Keywords: Social Spaces, Culture, Place Character , Dana Village, Traditional Shelters . INTRODUC TION ALIENATION OF TRADITIONAL HABITATS AND SHELTERS IN JORDANIAN VILLAGES Before the establishment of Jordan as an independent state in 1946, the Jordanian population was mainly composed of semi-nomads who settled in villages close to the fertile lands of the country, and nomadic Bedouins who had previously wandered in the desert of Arabia (see: Bin Mohammad, 1999; Shryock, 1997). The traditional Jordanian villages represented places of stability for the seminomadic population, where emotional attachment and a physical context became the signs of local national Jordanian identity. The village of Dana was a typical result of habitat production and “man-made expression” (see Smith, 2003), where the community in certain circumstances collectively creates its own common culture, symbolic values and characteristic living environment, producing specific forms, typology and a compact urban fabric suitable to their habits and lifestyles. This production of the habitat proper begins with the initiative of a familial bond, evolving without any pre-programmed projects to authentically reflect the collective and individual needs. People had the capacity to create their own shelter depending on social collaboration, rather than through the intervention of the State or by following particular norms and obligations encouraged by any local administrations. The spontaneous urban texture and architecture in the village of Dana reveals the necessities of having minimum spaces to live, reducing the size of units, openings, and structural forms, and inventing typologies that reflect particularities of the vernacular architecture in Jordan. Some Islamic social and territorial principles have created in several countries a strong sense of attachment to the place in terms of personal interrelationships (see Akbar, 1992; Al Abed, 2010). In fact, these principles have encouraged, firstly, the nomads to be stable in lands that they become owners of--if they cultivate or use it according to the principle of “Ihyaa Al Ard,” which means land revitalization. Secondly, other principles have supported the construction of buildings to be attached to each other following some of the Hadith of the Prophet Mohamed in citing several regulations and norms of their relationships. These 8 3 open house international Vol.37 No.1, March 2012 Alienation Of Traditional Habitats And Shelters In Jordanian Villages
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