Ras Al- Ain

Park
Students: Mirna, Sara, Sadeen, Joud, Kawkab, Zahraa’
Instructor: Leen Fakhoury
 ABOUT THE
PARK
▪ The park in the capital's Ras Al Ain area
was opened to the public.

▪ The 9-dunum park includes two

playgrounds, a bicycle track and
pedestrian paths.

▪ Its facilities also accommodate the needs

of people with disabilities.

▪ The main elements in the park;

1. Green Areas
2. Open Paths for walking
3. Multiple seating areas
 Entertainment Elements
1. Jogging Track
2. Sports
3. Seating areas
4. Restaurants around
the site
5. Kids area
6. Kids' games
Opening Hours
Solid And Void Map
Street HEIRARCHY Map
Districts
 Impact Hub AlHussein British Council AlNourain Mosque
AlJadaa Mall Amman Cultural Center
Parking NY Park Jordan

Landmarks
Parking 3 National Music The Housing Ras AlAin Greater Amman The Jordan Amman Roots
Conservatory Bank Municipality Museum Restaurant and Cafe
Gallery
 Dimensions
Area: 9000m2
Wind Path
Sun Path
Pedestrians accesibility
Entrances
 Facilities
Football Fields

Toilet

Playground

Parking
 Facilities
Parking

• Conditions: very good

Football Fields • Assessment:

- spacious
- security surveillance is
available

• Conditions: good Playground

• Assessment: • Conditions: good

- no shading elements
- garbage can near field
- entrances to fields are not spaced out
(not easily accessible)
- entrance is blocked by a concrete fence
- asphalt flooring
- no goalie net provided
• Assessment:
- only half was renovated
- lack of playground toys
- the playground toys are not
children friendly
- lack of maintenance for flooring
Unused Spaces
Hard Landscape
 Vegetation
Arizona cypress

Weeping willow

Black Locust

Mourning cypress

Date Palm

Lemon-Scented gum

Box elder

Empty Pockets
 Vegetation
Arizona cypress

⎯ Botanical name: Cupressus arizonica

⎯ Genus: Cypresses
 Vegetation
Weeping willow

⎯ Botanical name: Salix babylonica

⎯ Common name: Babylon weeping willow,
Chinese weeping willow, Mourning willow
⎯ Genus: willows
 Vegetation
Mourning cypress

⎯ Botanical name: Cupressus funebris

⎯ Common name: Graveyard Cypress,
Chinese weeping cypress.
⎯ Genus: Cypresses (Cupressus)
 Vegetation
Black Locust

⎯ Botanical name: Robinia pseudoacacia

⎯ Common name: False acacia, Locust tree.
⎯ Genus: Locusts (Robinia)
 Vegetation
Date palm

⎯ Botanical name: Phoenix dactylifera

⎯ Common name: Date.
⎯ Genus: Date palms
 Vegetation
Lemon-scented gum

⎯ Botanical name: Corymbia citriodora

⎯ Common name: Lemon eucalyptus,
Eucalptus citriodora, Spotted gum.
 Vegetation
Box elder

⎯ Botanical name: Acer negundo

⎯ Common name: Boxelder maple, Maple
ash, Ash-leaved maple, Manitoba maple.
⎯ Genus: Maples
 Vegetation
Blue Spruce

⎯ Botanical name: Picea Pungens

⎯ Common name: Colorada Spruce,
Colorada blue spruce, Rocky mountain
spruce.
⎯ Genus: Spruces (Picea)
 Vegetation
Ponderosa Pine

⎯ Botanical name: Pinus Ponderosa

⎯ Common name: Western yellow pine,
Bull Pine, Blackjack pine, Washoe pine.
⎯ Genus: Pines (Pinus)
 Vegetation
Peruvian Peppertree

⎯ Botanical name: Schinus molle

⎯ Common name: False pepper tree,
California peppertree, Molle del Peru.
⎯ Genus: Pepper trees (Schinus)
 Vegetation
Tree of heaven

⎯ Botanical name: Ailanthus altissima

⎯ Common name: Varnish tree, Stink tree,
Tree of hell, Ailanthus, Chinese Sumac.
⎯ Genus: Tree of heaven (Ailanthus)
 Vegetation
Lombardy poplar

⎯ Botanical name: Populus nigra var. Italica

⎯ Common name: Black poplar, Italian
poplar, Pyramidal poplar.
⎯ Genus: Poplars (Populus)
 Vegetation
New Mexico Locust

⎯ Botanical name: Robinia neomexicana

⎯ Common name: Southwestern locust,
Desert locust, Southwest locus.
⎯ Genus: Locusts (Robinia)
 Vegetation
Shingle Oak

⎯ Botanical name: Quercus imbricaria

⎯ Common name: Small-leaved oak, Laurel
oak.
⎯ Genus: Oaks (Quercus)
 Vegetation
Slender wild oat

⎯ Botanical name: Avena barbata

⎯ Common name: Slender oat, Slender
oats, Slender wildoat, Bearded oat.
⎯ Genus: Oats (Avena)
 Strength Weaknesses Opportunities Threat

Swot Analysis
Renowned public landmarks Spread of commercial
High traffic crisis at certain times.
Privacy from the surroundings (i.e. Souk AlJuma'a and Museum businesses
of Jordan) around the park.

Enhancing the pedestrian sidewal

Safety issues
Availability of Environmental pollution ks
including illegal
important cultural and in neighboring to encourage the people to
activities
artistic buildings. areas in addition to noise pollution. use the
especially in the park.
spaces comfortably

Provide public open spaces for

Types of Vegetation Lack of maintenance
people to interact and socialize.

Waste of space (without function

Playground areas for kids I.e. lighting fixtures or soft Parks for kids.
landscape)
A semi-average and poor standard
Sport facilities for adults of
living.
A semi-average and poor standard
An intermediate zone between
of
important regions.
living.
Insufficient spaces for the
Availability of modern and public surrounding
transportation. areas to interact with each other,
especially children.
The area is in one of the lowest valleys in Amman. It acts as a catchment area for the rainfall

Topography
water running from the North high points such as Sweileh.
Main streets around the park are raised as a natural response to the nab’aa, where the park
itself is sunken.
Slope Percentage:
Max Slope: 47.7%, -49.2%
Avg. Slope: 18.3%, -23.1%
Section (A,A)
Slope Percentage:
Max Slope: 11.9%, -15.5%
Avg. Slope: 2.9%, -3.4%
Section (B,B)
 Friday Market
Friday market is a major attraction point and a
commercial hub to the area.

BRT
BRT project on the northern street could be a
problem making it harder for users to cross the
street from Muhajireen area.

Pedestrian Accesibility

Large street, traffic congustion.

Not pedestrian friendly.
 Parking
The Parking slots of the Government are not
enough, therefore the park is used for extra
slots, instead of claiming its own natural
prestige as the lung among 5 districts.
 Behavior Analysis
Based on Activities

Parents playing and

supervising their
children on the
playground
Children Parents playing with
playing their children

Teenagers use
the playgrounds
as well
 Based on Activities

Behavior Analysis
Teenagers use
the playgrounds
as well

Different Academies use the football

field to practice and hold matches
Users of the park sit
down to watch as well
 Based on Activities

Behavior Analysis
People take a
stroll around the
park

Parents walk around with their

children
Boys play in the middle
football field only
 Based on Activities

Behavior Analysis
Non-Jordanian use this football
field inclusively

They take turns playing and

watching from the stands
 Based on Activities

Behavior Analysis
Kids draw and scribble on the
empty walls

Boys often use these pipes to

jump out of or into the park
Based on Activities

Behavior Analysis
Stairs are filled with litter

As well as empty spaces

around the edges
 Site Interviews
The dominant gender in
the park were males, while
females did not feel safe to
come daily unless they
come with a group to feel
secured.
 Site Interviews
Most visitors come to the
park in the noon (45%), while
some students come in the
afternoon after their school
hours to play football with
their club.
 Site Interviews
Users in Ras Elain Park
mostly come with
their sports league twice a
week, others either come
everyday to walk and
breathe clean air, some
come once a month or once
yearly.
 Site Interviews
Users visit the park for
various reasons, mostly for
letting their kids play, do
sports alone or with a sports
club, to eat, or to chill and
watch the surrounding users.
 Site Interviews
Most visitors said that the
activities and their quality
are good to fair, as this
might be because they are
affected by the surrounding
environment, hence seeing
the activities with this level.
 Social Analysis
Based on the interviews, he
most prominent age group
ranged from 13 to 17 years,
as this group came to either
play football for males or
walk around the running
track for females.
Other ages came either to
sit, walk, or let their kids
play in the playing area.
 Negative Aspects
People feel that the park’s maintenance is not up to date.
Edges analysis
Edges analysis
Existing buildings
 Potential park users
Students Transportation users
Shoppers

Al Husain cultural center GAM visitors and employees Residents of neighboring areas
Ras al ain gallery
The Jordan meuseum
Night Shots
Night Shots
Area Map
Male dominated

Conclusions
Playground Bathroom
Huge parking
spaces

Lack of lighting

Unirrigated soil
Zoning
ABOUT THE
SEIL
 TIMELINE of Seil Amman
• First flash flood hitting downtown area
In 2015 resulting in many damages

2000-2020
 TIMELINE of Seil Amman
• Further growth of the city of Amman and
the natural flow of the seil and its
relationship with its context; surrounded
by trees and housing units.

• With the stone bridge connecting both

sides.

1900-1920
1960-1980

TIMELINE of Seil Amman

• As amman grew, demand on
infastructure grew, alseil became
more of disturbance, with its
seasonal flooding, insects and odor.

• Therefor the 10km long seil cover

began in 1964
Seil Amman
Hydrological System of
Amman 2019
 Amman 2019
Hydrological System of
Sweileh

Basman

Al Abdali

Zahran
Al -Yarmouk

Ras Al-Ain
Hydrological System of
Amman 2019
 Collector
Main Collector & Secondary
The Culvert is
approximately 16 or
12m in width and 4 or
5m in depth.
Transportation
 Naba'a Ras Al Ain
To conserve the history of Amman and celebrate the past an initiative
was carried out by the name of Tales of Amman.

Tales of Amman is a series of stories

about Amman that tells the history of the city narrated by its people.
Naba'a Ras Al Ain
Naba'a Ras Al Ain Now
 Case Studies
Shenzhen Bao'an Waterfront
Cultural Park
 General Info.
o Project
Name: Shenzhen Bao'an Waterfront Cultural
Park

o Landscape architect: AUBE

CONCEPTION, SWA Group

o Completed: 2020

o Size: 380000 m²

o Location: Shenzhen, China

 Approach
Concept / Design
Purpose:
o Sitting within the central green axis of central Bao'an where the urban
bustle meets the bay's tranquility, Shenzhen Bao'an Waterfront Cultural
Park (the Park) integrates coastal leisure, cultural tourism, artistic
experiences, and ecological workplaces to address the creation of "new
urban coordinates of an international coastal city and a world-class b
ay-side destination".
Images
Images
 Program
Park Facilities and Services Area (M)
Large football field 91x122
Small football field 46x92
Basketball 15x28
Badminton 17x10
Running track 93x176
Sitting areas 15x10
Restaurants 4x3
Kids area 3x3
Playing area
Bathrooms
Security room
Cafeteria
Pavilion
Skating area
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