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Constellations Thesis Book by Nesrin Zidan

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Location: Wadi Rum, Aqaba City, Jordan

Type: Hospitality, Museum, Cultural, Hotel

Designed in 2008

Built-Up Area: 40,000 m2

Wadi Rum, or valley of the moon, is a vast empty desert in south of Jordan, surrounded

by series of fascinating colorful mountains. The selection of this site in particular was

for two key reasons; it is an ideal location to excavate natural ground with a high flexibility

of horizontal expansion. Furthermore, this site needs a very minimal and sensitive

intervention -since it was declared a world protected site by UNISCO in 2011- without

adding a new structure above ground that might compete with the existing mountains

and distract visitors visually.

These “Excavated Sanctuaries” announce themselves from their interior not exterior, in

other words, this is a new redefinition of the modernists’ phrase “form follows function”

into “subtraction follows function”.

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