Multi-Storey Parking Structures in Amman
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During the 1960s and early 1970s, Amman underwent important changes connected to enhancing vehicular movement in the city. These included paving over the Amman Creek and covering it with a street, installing the city’s first traffic light, and constructing its first multi-storey parking garage. This list presents a number of these garages in Amman.
1. Shabsogh Parking Complex
41 Shabsogh Street
Early 1970s
Client: Greater Amman Municipality, Ministry of Finance, and the Housing Bank
Parking floors: 9
Capacity: 390 cars
This is Amman’s first parking structure, and remains one of its largest. It incorporates a waffle-slab structural system.
2. Al Fuhais Commercial Complex
33 King al-Hussein Street
1984
Architect: Rukn al-Handasah
Client: Sweiss and Sons
Parking floors: 10
Capacity: 140 cars
Plans initially were made for this structure to be a commercial complex. After its first four stories were built, however, it was decided that its remaining ten floors would be constructed as a parking structure to accommodate the need for parking in its surrounding busy and congested area. The upper ten floors use a waffle-slab structural system instead of the post-and-beam system used for the first four floors. It may be accessed from Jabal al-Luweibdeh (at the top of the structure) or from the downtown area (at the bottom of the structure).
In 2012, writings were added to the elevation of the structure as part of the “Sentences on the Banks and Other Activities” project by the Khalid Shoman Foundation / Darat al-Funun, which is located nearby the structure in Jabal al-Luweibdeh. The writings are excerpts from a poem by French-Moroccan poet Mohamed El-Baz. Additional information on the project is available here.
3. SmartPark Automatic Parking
69 Princess Taghrid Mohammad Street
2011
Architect: al-Suki Architects & Consulting Engineers
Client: JoPark – Jordanian Company for Parking Solutions
Parking floors: 4
This is Jordan’s first smart automated parking structure. It is located in Amman’s busy and congested Sweifieh district. Because it is an automated parking structure, the need for circulation areas is eliminated, parking capacity is maximized, and a relatively small building footprint is achieved.
4. The Specialty Hospital Parking
Hunayn Bin Ishaq Street
2014
Designers: JoPark - Jordanian Company for Parking Solutions
Parking floors: 9
Capacity: 104 cars
5. Al-Etihad Bank Parking
Abdul Raheem al-Waked Street
2016
Architects: al-Suki Architects & Consulting Engineers
Parking floors: 5
Capacity: 110 cars
This automated parking structure uses solar energy to help power the equipment used to move the cars parked in it.
(Watch this one-minute video showing how the structure’s automated parking system functions: https://www.facebook.com/JoPark.jo/videos/1279370242135166/)