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JEDDAH BOUTIQUE HOTEL
Year: 2022
Area: 300 sqm
Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Services Architecture
Role: Lead Designer
Project Brief
Jeddah boutique hotel is located in the historical Jeddah district as its considered UNESCO World Heritage site.
The intent of the design approach is to celebrate the essence of Al Balad traditional identity and the Hijazi urban form by createting a contemporary interpretation approach, expressed through Forms, Shapes, Textures, Patterns and clear materiality definition of wood and white paint.
Entrance
PLOT BOUNDARY
The plot is located along Al Dahab street that was introduced in the 60s that severed the historical urban fabric. This area merits a special consideration to heal the divide
Extrusion Of The Plot
Starting with extruding a simple geometrical form on the main plot with a height of 22m, in comoliance with al balad guidelines
DEFINED CORNER
A significant vertical subtraction tretment along the building frontage to reflect the hijazi building form identity.
Terrace
FORM COMPOSITION
Subtraction tretment forming an outdoor terraces with a defined corner entrance
ROOF TOP
Activating the roof top with a traditional hijazi Majles To create an attractive and coherent roofscape that merits the character of Al Balad.
TRADITIONAL HIJAZI CHARACTER
The intent of the design is to celebrate the essence of the Al Balad vernacular building form identity.
Eve Center
Year: 2020
Area: 10,000 sqm
Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Services Architecture
Role: Lead Designer
Primitive Geometrical Form
Our mother Eve Center - We are envisioning this building to be exhibiting/celebrating humans scientific and cultural Nobel achievements.
Creating Indoor Exhibition
The design consists of a fragments group of simple enclosures of Indoor/Outdoor gallaries and exhebitions resting on a limestone platform, inspired by local architecture. Forming the city’s context and maintaining its constant emergence status.
Perforation Screen
The stretched slender columns are forming unique vertical spaces, inspired by the transitional experience qualities of the old city of Jeddah, leading to Eve’s exhibits. Also, those columns will be casting and shaping over their visual intersections unique adaptive patterns through the dimensions of time, perspective and location.
A Floating Screen Of Light And Shade
As the sun passes above, light filters through the perforations in the screen to create an enchanting effect within the museum, known as the rain of light Resulting bright sunlight from above creating a dappled arabesque pattern on the surfaces .
