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The project is a response to the future Amman urban planning. The city is undergoing important changes, and the site’s location plays with the idea of decentralization of economy and population. Situated on the new boundaries of the city, the project will develop a new part of the Metropolitan Amman, to create a highlight between the old city and the Dead Sea. A water storage center is today located on the site, and could be the generating device for future development and construction projects in this area, The project will bring water from the country, and can use the actual water bank during the construction. The first part of the construction is to develop a new water network serving the whole country; ensuring a reliable and adequate supply of water for everyone and facilitating the possibility to create green areas all around the country (Jordan has less than 1% forest).

The project proposes the creation of a participatory experimentation. This is done in order to develop an urban informational system in which the citizens and experts could work together to develop the city through solutions that optimize water resources. What is proposed is a productive organization to define a new sustainable way of living, in the continuity of the development logics which have emerged in the new cities of the United Arab Emirates. The idea is to use this project as a laboratory for experimentation with new forms of urban-scale infrastructure. Water will be preciously stored, hidden, rationed with strict authority, and protected. The project will be the center of a new underground network serving the entire country, in order to provide universal distribution of water. This will be a major infrastructure investment on a vast scale; to make the mega-structure completely independent and self-sufficient, a solar power tower will be used in order to create enough energy in a sustainable way. The objective is to produce an artificial upward flow and to use this flow to generate electricity. To create an upward flow we will first have to find a special material able to heat air more than all the other element of the landscape. The best way for this is to use a large greenhouse, which is going to be part of the program. The more important is to have a translucent material to facilitate the capture of solar energy. The temperatures difference will create an air movement, which will make possible the convergence of airflows. Hot air naturally rises; which is why it directly goes to the foot of the chimney, where the turbines are located. Then the tower will canalize and convert the airflow created by the updraft, and will be capable of producing a very high energy yield.

This project deals with solutions to the depletion of resources, not only in Jordan, but all around the world, for every kind of natural resources, and proposes a new sustainable way of living.

The Island proposes a believable utopian vision, in a time of increasingly stressed natural environments and ever more dysfunctional urban agglomerations.