The UN Square Murals: MEAN*’s historic Middle Eastern promenade for Jordan

This iconic project, situated at the King Hussein Park in Amman, the country’s capital, proposed designs for three central murals that combine the efforts of Jordan’s contribution within the United Nations on Regional and International fronts. 

The mural is composed of three parts, honouring the Jordanian troops, the topographic world map representing the countries of disaster relief, and honouring the Jordanian peace missions.

The mural honouring the Jordanian troops represents the strong, courageous and tenacious soldiers of the Jordanian peace keeping forces. The mural features a photo montage of scenes of the forces on ground in various locations of intervention, mounting and operating a myriad of army equipment. The scenes are abstracted using a computer algorithm that reveals the image by varying the width of 150 strips that reveal the image using monochrome colour differentiation.

The world map mural represents the heights at which the Jordanian peace keeping troops have reached to provide aid and assistance to various locations around the world. The map is an interactive, three dimensional cartographic depiction of the geographic topographies globally, represented in an abstract contemporary language, and envisioned with state of the art technology.

The mural honouring the Jordanian peace missions represents the humanitarian role that the Jordanian peace keeping forces play in disaster relief. The mural features a photo-montage of scenes of the soldiers on duty, protecting civilians in war torn countries, providing shelter, food and medical aid. The scenes are abstracted using a computer algorithm that reveals the image by varying the width of 150 strips that reveal the image. The strips are designed to be water-jet cut from brushed Aluminum.