Fursan 101

Fursan 101 is a residential building of ten apartments on a corner plot in Al-Jubaiha, Amman. The plot lies between a 12 m street to the south and a 20 m street to the east, and the building follows the curve where they meet.

A bridge crosses the lower garden from the south street to the stair and lift core. A side stair on the curved edge serves the east side. A ramp along the north boundary takes cars down to the second basement, which holds parking, stores and water tanks.

The first basement, ground, first and second floors each have two apartments, one on either side of the core. Each has a salon on the street side, with the kitchen and dining area behind it and three bedrooms along the north wall. The two third-floor apartments continue up to a roof hall and terrace.

The south front has two projecting stone volumes, one on each side of a full-height glazed stair slot. Balconies with glass balustrades and dark slabs stack up the west side, and curved balconies stack up the east corner. The walls are limestone in two finishes: rock-faced in 13 cm courses and tooled in 26 cm courses.