Refugee Heritage; Qalandia Refugee Camp as an Urban Circular System

Name(s): 
Riham Abu Khadejih
Isra Assaf
University: 
Birzeit University
Name(s) of instructor(s): 
Samar al Nazer
Country: 
Palestine
Brief About The Project: 

The project is site oriented it started from Qalandia camp in Palestine. The camp suffers from tough economic conditions that caused high unemployment rates moreover it suffers from decreasing the UNRWA services. Though the project intent to establish a circular economic systems for social, environmental, economic, and human benefits that intent to design the solid waste of the camp in order to create an agricultural Agripuncture Nodes spread all over the camp called “Infills” to have self-sufficient in main crops and as an income source, also it have a water treatment system for irrigation.

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