Memory

Regathering Syrian architecture

Aleppo, Syria

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Winner

1 Entry

Hamed and Hila

764

Fast forward to the FUTURE

Architecture has the power of empowerment people in their cities, their lives and relations. Architecture is not for pasts, it is for the Future. In this project we try to create the participation spaces for people to use. We inspiring existing layers on the site to memorable space and times. A Grand Arc of Aleppo is refer to the past and is for the Future.

Runner-up

1 Entry

Artur and Ania

Paradaijah

The word paradise comes from Proto-Iranian Paradaijah, meaning walled enclosure. Project propose to erect a wall from ruins of devastated Aleppo, to invite water and plants inside, as a metaphor of revival and realm of peace. Meanwhile the modern reinterpretation of traditional arches stimulates public life and offers a place to play, trade and meet.

Honorable Mention

4 Entries

Michal

BETA: THE PATH OF TOMORROW

A place to escape from reality, not just a building, it is the main square, a public space, a place to gather, a place far away from all the political and religious issues where everyone finds a place for themselves in it.

Abdallah and 3 others

Co-Existence

Our project proposes the reshaping of one of the important sites of the city center of Aleppo into a plaza that re-gathers people for social and cultural interactions. The design concept is to create an urban void that shapes a transitional space where visitors can experience the continuity of time, from the past into the future.

Maysa and 2 others

Aleppo: a Tangible Heritage

Through the complete removal of the Grand Serail, the re-programming of the Justice Palace, and the implementation of the Placemaking theory, the space at the foot of the citadel becomes a place of memorialization of heritage, of celebration and honor for the lost souls during the war, and a place for everyday rituals and activities to occur.

Mohamed

The Non-Memorial

This project aims to transcend traumatic memory imposed in the physical monumental space, by creating a space for social reconciliation through storytelling. Embracing the scars of war and subtly subverting these memories of war into beams of hope.

People's Choice Award

2 Entries

Rishabh and 4 others

276

Place of People

Place of People is a dynamic public space designed in the heart of Aleppo that seeks to acts as a catalyst in the personal healing and community strengthening process. The design instils a feeling of strength in the people that takes birth from their weaknesses and fears to alleviate their spirit and morale.

Zsolt and 3 others

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WALKWAY TO MEMORY

A path to introduce visitors to the history of Aleppo, orient them to the Citadel and emphasize the meeting point to the architectural and cultural complex of the old city. A light structured museum and a public exhibition intervened as an informing and expressive space. Simultaneously, Walkway To Memory allows the user to live the past for moments.

Institutional Excellence Award

2 Entries

Zsolt and 3 others

OASIS OF CULTURE

What is an oasis? According to the dictionary it means ?a pleasant or peaceful area or period in the midst of a difficult or hectic place or situation?. We build up our design concept around this oasis theme. We want to create a place where the local people can find peace and happiness in their present chaotic everyday life.

Zsolt and 3 others

Gate between Past and Future

Before the conceptional designing we wanted to know the history of Aleppo and the political, religional background because in our opinion by the decisions this fact have very important roles.

Shortlisted

22 Entries

hamidreza and Babak

MEMORY OF HOMES & HOPES

The body is perforated by home (Liwans) shaped voids, representing what?s missing, while accenting towards transcendental. It rests on the site without imposing any precedence to any sides, magnetically absorbing the city from all sides towards its heart. The heart is where the light showers through the Oculus opening, offering the sky, which is still blue.

Claudia and Juanita

Re.greeneration

Re.greeneration is a transitional place between Aleppo?s past - present ? future, valuing as much as possible its history and relationship with the social and physical context. The project is based on the idea of the demolished building as part of the resulting/current landscape. Understanding the place as an ecosystem.

Snow

Condensation park

I advocate the use of containers and simple steel frames to build a park-like residential community, completely removing the borders. The GF floor has almost no walls and borders, which makes it open like a park. The first to fourth floors are residential and the top floor is surrounded by a flyover. There is no sense of isolation when refugees live in them.

陈

Historical remembrance community in the ruins - wreckage

The design combines the fragments of memory with the fragments of the country to feel pain and rebirth. The whole scheme is a relationship of aggregation and dispersion. Design highlights: the road from south to north, from divergence and convergence, free access from all sides, meaning a wide gathering of people, gathered here.

Yingying

Repair the crack in Syria's memory

The plan aims to repair the cracks in Syria's memory caused by the war, including ?the Corridor of Memory Crack?(along the destructed important buildings around Aleppo Citadel) and ?The Memorial Hall of War and History? (the end of 'corridor').

nicolò

enlightening the heritage

The project consists of a underground square, externally covered by a pure stone clad volume symbolzing a solemn monument. Approaching it, people live the space under the building, which is the real memorial. A space in the darkness broken by strong lights coming from the courts above where lights illuminate objects representing the losses brought by the war

Dominika

The Dream of al-Ash?-r

Memorial, a voice of memory and dreams. Dreams that create a temporary structure that will be built up over time along with the opportunities and needs of local people, simultaneously with the reconstruction of the city. In time, the emptiness that results from the destruction will fill the void into a mass full of life.

RICCARDO

Museum of Memory

The function is a museum of the City of Aleppo, a contemporary cultural center where the population can gather their collective life memory; an urban center with collective functions as: archives, library, museum center. Thinked as memory archive for the city now and in the future.

tuqa and Waed

144

Al Rozana

A campus fostering community regrowth designed on the bases of legacy and community involvement.

Eyal

Child Health Integrative Center (CHIC)

Syria has hope. The people of Syria can recreate a healthy and safe environment for generations to come. CHIC is open to Syrian children of all ages, suggesting a true integrative approach to healing. It's a healthy stem cell in an injured tissue. It can multiply its positive effect and regrow a functional city and community around itself.

Memory

Winner

Fast forward to the FUTURE

Runner-up

Paradaijah

Honorable Mention

BETA: THE PATH OF TOMORROW

Co-Existence

Aleppo: a Tangible Heritage

The Non-Memorial

People's Choice Award

Place of People

WALKWAY TO MEMORY

Institutional Excellence Award

OASIS OF CULTURE

Gate between Past and Future

Shortlisted

MEMORY OF HOMES & HOPES

Re.greeneration

Condensation park

Historical remembrance community in the ruins - wreckage

Repair the crack in Syria's memory

enlightening the heritage

The Dream of al-Ash?-r

Museum of Memory

Al Rozana

Child Health Integrative Center (CHIC)

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