Project
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In the city outskirts, relatively far from the urban center, a less dense area, still under development, has the ability to sustain a certain group of activities that would greatly take advantage of the geographical conditions. Open air and massive exploitation areas allow the creation of an infrastructure that combines diverse types of usage, such as sports, science and agriculture.
To fulfill its purpose, some circumstances needed to be attended to, and some of the existing buildings had to be absorbed and rehabilitated by a strategic proposal that defines a clear idea of occupancy of the vast area available. The zone development intends to conjugate the activities category with the landscape and the repurposed elements, in order to generate concentric circles of interaction in between its parts.
Most of the indoor activities will take place in the main building, created from scratch to serve the needs of its users accordingly. It presents itself in the very center of the plot as an element of importance, as a symbol of technology, learning and tradition, organized around the main square, which withstands all sorts of social interaction and has the ability to receive and distribute its visitors through a continuous gesture composed by several inverted vaults that create a single and unique surface. It is materialized with a vernacular approach, embedded in space by the use of traditional bricks as a cladding for the entire building.
At south, near the main gate, the multi-purpose building represents one of the rehabilitated constructions, wrapped in a new skin and properly modernized in order to assume its updated functions. On the north part of the plot, four full sized football fields occupy most of the area, one of them becomes indoor, due to its inflatable dome. Several plant nurseries spread along the east of the main building and around it, large organic pockets of vegetation that create a sort of topography. This area gained as well, an outdoor track for radio command cars and a greenhouse, for the most fragile non-indigenous species.
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Location
Kuwait
Year
2019
Built-up Area
2 500 sqm
Status
Research Study
Team
Abdulatif Almishari, Rui Vargas
João Costa, Lionel Estriga, Mariana Neves, Inês Costa, Marta Gonçalves, Duarte Correia, Pedro Miranda, António Brigas, Bruno Luz, Gonçalo Silva, Maysi Vazquez, Richard Preston, Telmo Rodrigues, Tiago Lopes
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