Yazan Mahadin, Abdallah Tabbalat, Amany Abu Jamaa, Yazan Abu Flaha, Merna Beiruti, Nour Halawa (JORDAN) “..the project was inspired by the important relationship that a sports center and its community must establish by fulfilling an important role of social infrastructure. The site, previously used as a parking lot, does not cancel its past identity but reinforces it; the center is high and is accessible via ramps to ventilate and let natural light penetrate inwards. Squares and terraces on different levels become areas of community service during public events. An intention of aggregation reinforced by the use of transparent surfaces that tend to dematerialize the limit between public and private. Each point becomes a field of observation that refers to a nearby place, a stimulus of curiosity that suggests users a way to discover the center through an experience integrated with the place.”
