Environmental sustainability

On the urban level, the project suggests a prototype solution inside the city of Amman by focusing on integrating the cemeteries within the urban fabric of the neighborhoods that act as positive spaces and turning the upper layer into a park which will provides a green lung for the dense residential areas as well as public plazas and communal spaces for meeting and gathering inside neighborhoods. On the other hand, the project is reintroducing new typologies for cemeteries that is based on modules which will help in decreasing the footprint of the graveyards inside the cemeteries as each unit contains 32 graves. Taking the chosen site as an example; the project provided 544 graves (in 12,000 sqm) which is five times the current existing situation.

Social sustainability

An important issue that was addressed was social sustainability. The project aims to turn the cemeteries into a positive space by adding new elements to it (Al-Tikyeh) based on donating the dead’s belongings to the needy of the neighborhoods to create a sense of social solidarity and will also help in reviving the communal atmosphere inside the neighborhoods. The design focused on redefining the 21st century Tikyeh which will contain: a library (dead people’s books, writings, archive), storage (for the given things and donations), a community kitchen and a multipurpose hall (which will serve in funerals and other neighborhood events). The funeral house is also an added function that mainly serves the dead's families in funerals and allows the neighborhood to show solidarity and sympathy.