?The traces of an abandoned quarry on the outskirts of Ajloun City, stands charged as a catalyst for the design process of the Rangers Academy Building.?

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Architects: Khammash Architects

Location: Jabal `Ajlun? Jordan

Client: The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN)

Area: 3500.0 sqm

Project Year: 2013

Photographs: Ammar Khammash

© Ammar Khammash

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Plan

?The traces of an abandoned quarry on the outskirts of Ajloun City, stands charged as a catalyst for the design process of the Rangers Academy Building.?In the late 1980s-1990s, the Jordanian Government decided to stop many functioning quarries for a variety of environmental reasons. The abandoned quarries remained as untreated wounds and abandoned cuts in the landscape, with no serious land reclamation efforts. The proposed site of the new the Rangers Academy Building held the shadows of a once was a functioning quarry. In this project, our office decided to celebrate the quarry instead of erasing it, by using this man-made artificial exposed cliff to the advantage of the project. This deformed cut turned into the real thrilling challenge of the site.
© Ammar Khammash

© Ammar Khammash

The building design was based on the quarry cliff cut-l...