Architectural visions in rehabilitation of quarries and brick factories in Amman : a case study rehabilitation of al-Muqabalain industrial zone

الملخص EN

The mining and quarrying sector represented by stone sawing and bricks factories is considered as the vital industrial sector in Jordan, due to the fast economic growth, urbanization, and forced migration.

However, Bricks and stone sawing resulted in environmental degradations, due to the emission of significant quantities of gaseous and particulate pollutants, besides visual pollution caused by the random distribution of these factories.

Hence the importance of this paper lies in examining quarries and brick factories rehabilitation issue within Amman Metropolitan Area.

The study is based on comprehensive survey for nine industrial zones, strengthening it via statistical data acquired from Greater Amman Municipality, using as a case study of Al Muqabalain industrial zone.

According to survey results, the proposed solutions for the random distribution of stone saw and brick factories in Al Muqabalain area are summarized by either rehabilitation of brick factories and old quarries that are inevitable to transfer through proposed legislative policies or relocation for the factories that cannot be rehabilitated to appropriate alternative site through organized procedures, then decision-making.

In this study, Wadi Al-Ish is the proposed alternative site where most of appropriate criteria were achieved.

Finally, further environmental recovery studies will be needed to help the use of solid and liquid factories waste, and this is not to be without formation of a committee of stakeholders to develop an applied plan for these proposed solutions.