Goal

In light of this reality, steps must be taken to treat the effects of destruction and reconstruct with the following goals:
To ensure the fast return of people to their residences and jobs, in which their return is considered a natural continuation of their lives, and a communication amongst each other and their surroundings – a vivid communication that is stronger than war -, so that the people do not remain away from their homes, thereby creating a gap in their social memory that is difficult to fill, and so that the people can preserve their emotional attachment to the places they inhabited for many decades.

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Options of Reconstruction

After determining the aforementioned goals of reconstruction, researching for the best options that accomplish these goals was a must. It is noteworthy that several researches and thoughts were discussed at the time, and most of these thoughts were based on the caution, patriotism, and chivalry for the area and its people. These options are as follows:

Ownership of real estates and collapsed buildings, and financial compensation to their owners to buy alternative residential units until further schemes are put and constructed in a specific constructional vision.

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Urban Design for the Region

The project management has worked with the advisory board, in cooperation with the municipality of Haret Hurreikh, to develop the urban design of the region in light of the general policies of the project. The management therefore set its work plan in accordance with the following facts:
Identifying the problems suffered by the area in question.
Gathering needed data including decrees and resolutions adopted by the civil arrangement and Haret Hurreikh Municipality (area system, traffic plan, infrastructure, etc)
Setting appropriate solutions within available capacities
 

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The basic trends of Urban and architectural reconstruction

As a result of the analyses for the element and concept of the urban plan for the region, architectural trends were planed, some of it was in general level of the area as a whole and some was special according to the streets and their significant cases, and it came as the following:

 

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