INTERTWINED JUXTAPOSITIONSResidential Apartment ComplexIrbid, Jordan
The residential apartment project is a hybrid between the traditional courtyard house and the typical boxed residential building. It accommodates both the density of developer’s box buildings, the climatic responsiveness and the socio-cultural aspects of courtyard houses. In which various scale courtyards are incorporated. Moreover, this spatial arrangement provides a semi-public, semi-private and private zones with communal facilities such as (meeting majlis room, outdoor amphitheater, gym pool, court and roof gardens), as well as providing different apartment prototypes. The aperture’s and light corresponded to the gradient of publicity and privacy. Respecting the cultural background of the users (the value for privacy, as inhabitants tend to close windows with curtains closed most of the time, thus the articulation was based on recessed tilted windows towards framed views. These tactical intrusions also responded to the environmental condition by acting as a shading passive device. The tectonics incorporates materials and local construction techniques by incorporating local white flat plaster that is commonly used.