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An Absolute Productive Metropolis

We only preserve what we love. People of Al Haraneyah don’t love the agriculture lands, because simply it is very hard to love something that is not beneficial for you. That is why it is very easy for them to build on it or even sell it to stakeholders. Here comes our role, to generate a land  worth saving. Our fascination was the people. People having common interests and working  in similar activities but not together. They had their strong community. They all knew each other, they had an excellent connection and a communication system. It was very intriguing for us as designers and we wanted to use it in their benefit. Invest in them more than anything else. Our vision was to group people together according to their activities. Introducing common spaces like a marketplace for them to work together, creating one end product. Then create a cycle of trust where they could all depend on one another, thus having a very strong community that could easily connect to the outside. We wanted to use three aspects of the site, agriculture lands, residential buildings and the underutilized areas. How? By dividing the lands into five productive systems, crop farming, dairy production, protein production, poultry production and carpet industry. Thus, diversifying the work opportunities. Each system depends on one basic aspect which is the agriculture lands and another aspect. Finally, connecting all systems together in order to benefit from each other.
An Absolute Productive Metropolis
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An Absolute Productive Metropolis

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