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Analysis for the Urban Design Project in the Old City, Damascus, Syria

Sieber, Jula-Kim
eds.: PAR, TU Darmstadt (2009)
Analysis for the Urban Design Project in the Old City, Damascus, Syria.
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Item Type: Book Section
Type of entry: Primary publication
Title: Analysis for the Urban Design Project in the Old City, Damascus, Syria
Language: English
Date: 13 November 2009
Place of Publication: Darmstadt, Germany
Publisher: tuprints
Book Title: Analysis
Series: A new brand for the old town (Damascus, Syria)
Series Volume: 2/3
URL / URN: http://www.damascus.par-darmstadt.de
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Abstract:

PAR >planning and building in Extra-European regions< at the TU Darmstadt, Germany, is trying to sensitise the students to an integral urban design in foreign cultures. The fact of designing in a foreign, not so familiar culture helps abstracting the design process and provokes the students to follow their own designing believs. They have to adapt to new rules - may they be based on geography, culture, climate, materials, ... Abstraction and common sense lead to an explicate attitude to be discussed with the locals in order to avoid an urban designing mainly based on traditional prejudices. In the winter term 08/09 we focused on the old city of Damascus, which is part of the UNESCO world heritage since 1979. Since the 90s investments have led to a Walt Disney for tourists. The students now had to propose an urban design which prevents the old city from becoming a dead museum and makes it a vivid district of the city. In terms of urbanism they had to combine housing with the actual artistic and cultural movement in Damascus. Inspired by Shadi Ghadirian series ‚like every day‘ we named it ‚a new brand for the old town‘. The results of the urban design studio are presented in form of videos on the website www.damascus.par-darmstadt.de. This volume 'analysis' is an approach to the Arab culture, Syria and Damascus in forms of maps, graphical analysis and visualisations.

Uncontrolled Keywords: urban design, historic city centre, old city, damascus, syria, arab, tu darmstadt, par, Planning and Building in extraEuropean Regions, old town, aleppo, pecha kucha, nicolas bongs, miriam ballesteros, andreas brück, nelly castillo aviles, maria emanuel, castro da silva, anna damm, julian della morte, bettina dobschal, aritz garcia de cortazar, arriola, enaam jarjis, mohammad aladin koujan, naghmeh malek, tamar makharadze, alessa meier, julio obregon zepeda, leonie plänkers, humberto sarabia, isabell schreiter, markus schütz, catherina schuster, leonie stützle, julia wiengarten, hannah winkelmann, deniz köse, jula-kim sieber,
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urban design, historic city centre, old city, damascus, syria, arab, tu darmstadt, par, Planning and Building in extraEuropean Regions, old town, aleppo, pecha kucha, nicolas bongs, miriam ballesteros, andreas brück, nelly castillo aviles, maria emanuel, castro da silva, anna damm, julian della morte, bettina dobschal, aritz garcia de cortazar, arriola, enaam jarjis, mohammad aladin koujan, naghmeh malek, tamar makharadze, alessa meier, julio obregon zepeda, leonie plänkers, humberto sarabia, isabell schreiter, markus schütz, catherina schuster, leonie stützle, julia wiengarten, hannah winkelmann, deniz köse, jula-kim sieber,English
Stadtplanung, Städtebau, Dritte Welt, UNESCO, pecha kucha,Weltkulturerbe, Syrien, Damaskus, historisches Stadtzentrum, Altstadt, PAR, TU Darmstadt, Jula-Kim Sieber, Planen und Bauen in außereuropäischen Regionen, Stadtbausteine, nicolas bongs, miriam ballesteros, andreas brück, nelly castillo aviles, maria emanuel, castro da silva, anna damm, julian della morte, bettina dobschal, aritz garcia de cortazar, arriola, enaam jarjis, mohammad aladin koujan, naghmeh malek, tamar makharadze, alessa meier, julio obregon zepeda, leonie plänkers, humberto sarabia, isabell schreiter, markus schütz, catherina schuster, leonie stützle, julia wiengarten, hannah winkelmann, deniz köseGerman
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-13856
Additional Information:

A dvd with PechaKuchaVideos of the designs, the eBooks and FotoSoundScapes of the excursion is available at www.damascus.par-darmstadt.de/dvd .

Classification DDC: 700 Arts and recreation > 720 Architecture
Divisions: 15 Department of Architecture > Fachgruppe E: Stadtplanung > Planen und Bauen in außereuropäischen Regionen
Date Deposited: 24 Nov 2009 13:31
Last Modified: 08 Jul 2020 23:19
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/1385
PPN: 386765200
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