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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
- Benefiting from the new situation to reshape the organization of the region in a way that meets the people's aspirations.
- After several meeting of the advisory board, and its analysis of the reality, the area in which work could be launched was identified, as it was the being affected by the aggression, and the most destructed. The area is about 40 hectares, where 50% of the demolished buildings were in this region, and the remainder was different widespread areas. The whole work was focused on this relatively small geographical area, which required:
- A technical survey which identifies the patch of total demolition and partial demolition in the area
Identification of buildings that need repair with the necessary improvement, including the building façade, in addition to providing public safety requirements. (A special study was developed for the building's façade and the work us underway at this stage).
The nature of fabric of buildings present in the targeted areas, and that of the fabric adjacent to it, are the beginning for each point in the urban design that is willing to reconstruct what has been demolished. These two fabrics identify the approach adopted in reconstruction. Limiting the destruction and rational reconstruction confirmed in the aforementioned, necessarily need a move away from an operative organization, and adopting only a local treatment for that.