Rehabilitation Project for the Grounds of Adasiyyah Girls' School — Center for the Study of the Built Environment

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This project is connected to the 2003 CSBE Graywater Reuse Project that was implemented for the Adasiyyah Girls’ School in the village of Adasiyyah in the Jordan Valley. This activity was carried out in coordination with the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and Habitat for Humanity (HFH). It aimed at upgrading the school grounds through a process that involved carrying out interactive discussion sessions and design workshops with the school’s students and their teachers.

Through these discussion sessions, the students and teachers expressed a need for improving the school’s seating areas, planting hedges that provide for visual privacy, and constructing a retaining wall to shield the school play area from soil erosion. Interactive design sessions were then organized, ending up with the implementation process, which was carried out through the active participation of the school community.

View of the concrete benches under construction showing the ceramic tile designs as created by the students.

Students participating in constructing the benches.

Views of the completed benches showing the ceramic tile designs that were created by the students.

View of the concrete benches under construction.

View of the retaining wall that was constructed along the play area to prevent soil erosion.

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Rehabilitation Project for the Grounds of the Adasiyyah Girls’ School