“It’s my misfortune that I have escaped
death by love several times
and my fortune that I’m still fragile
to reenter experience”

Mahmoud Darwish, The Dice Player, 2008

FIRST SEMINAR
Analysis and design planning “Design concepts for a new Rehabilitation center in Ramallah”

SECOND SEMINAR
Detail planning, field research with workshops

Design and feasibility study for a rehabilitation center in Ramallah

Llong-term medical care including after-care is self-evident to us Western Europeans. For the Palestinian population in the West bank even normal medical care is already severely restricted.

Against this background student teams of the Faculty of Architecture in Munich have developed innovative concepts for a rehabilitation center in Ramallah to meet the medical and social needs of the population.
The feasibility study was developed together with doctors and specialists of the relief organization medipalestine.ch. following there guiding objectives of providing quality medical care for all, overcoming the limitations of isolation, bringing together professional skills the new "Rehab" has to be a coherently composed, open and permeable building of with high design quality. At the same time, it must be functional and it cost should not to height.
Various designs were made, which took the special needs and the culture of the people involved
into account.

The results of the project "Rehab" were presented at the An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine and discussed with professors, students and representatives of the city of Ramallah.
Project during the professorship at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany (D. Karcher).

Collaboration partners
An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
RIWAQ, Ramallah, Palestine
medipalestine.ch, Dietikon, Switzerland

Sponsors
Das Bayerischen Baugewerbes Munich, Germany
Sababa and SAHA Munich, Germany