Aleppo South-West Neighborhood

Aleppo is a city which has just past a war. More than the half of the city is completely devastated and actually formed by slums with no urban infrastructure. The South-West neighborhood are the ones which most suffered this war. 

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A complet neighborhood should be build from zero, respecting the surroundings and the existing partial infrastructure that leads into the center of the city.

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The proposal focuses on the muslim urban scale creating small gases for the pedestrians, as well as intermediate one or two direction roads to provide the traffic, as well as two ramblas that combine both ideas. 

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The high density of the existing slums should be solved, as well. We propose three typologies: The islamic courtyard house represents the family union in the islamic culture. With an easy structure we make this buildings accesible for everyone. The waqfs, that are placed all around the neighborhood are public spaces that revitalice the trade, as well as the community itself and provides the merchants their residential flats. The Bagdir are a complex of residential flats that are focused on harboring the destroyed families by the war. With a central fountain, a public space in each ground floor of the buildings this families can found their new community and family.

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In addition a public garden with memorials of the war and some collective orchards provide the neighborhood with the necessary green space.