Amman- Jordan Downtown Al Balad Visual Analysis
A fragment of the past
“Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow.” - King Hussein I
The Practice of habits, colors, Design and historical preservation recognizes that these things still carry within their visual imaginations the influence of other century’s procedures and representational views of the visuals in the city, these visuals reach back to manipulate Design fragment and traces formulated as expressions of other centuries problems and needs, but then they inset these fragments into contemporary context that are controlled by vastly changed circumstances and desires from the future engulfed by a set of new visual appearance in contemporary times. This act creates a fragment of the past generated by nostalgic feeling for the new and the old.The role of history, memory and concept of space and time in visual appearance in Al-Ballad plays a huge role in the form. The attitude towards the past emerges in the city itself, not only in the shapes but also in the expression of inner affinities.
Visual intervention:
The important meaning of traditions and memories that connected present to the past accompanied with many eras and rulers with different cultural backgrounds barrowing the concept of space and time in visual appearance everything direct to the point of this natural traditional sense of the future is still shown and the sense of memory was not forgotten but replaced with series of events continuing the future, Which I represent it with pictures that can be recognized from all generations , with the concept of past is still connecting our future.
