diyar suncatcher
creative power of nature, culture and lifestyle
The gate at the entrance of diyar al muharraq, celebrates this futuristic development emphasizing the most powerful resources of its geographical uniqueness, the sun and the sand. As the gate flexes and bends acoordingly wirth the movement of the sun to benefit as much as possible to harness its daily power, it also allows people across the road from a curvy surface that is a mixture of desert and sea sand concrete that also captures heat during the day. At night the flexing character of the gate dissolves into the dark midnight, and only fiber optic light nerves become visible which create a distinctive identity just for the night. While the bending curvilinear surfaces change the whole direction and shape of the plate, with various light mapping schemes, this flux structure does not make it easy to follow what is going over or under the bridge.
year
size
location
theme
status
2023
4.150 m2
UAE
bahrain
city gate
competition
demolishing an existing structure is not fair, however, you need to let go if it has already accomplished its mission and become obsolete. it is one of the main decisions to demolish the outdated terminal buildings which are to be re-built and transform the area with its right to more open, public and green spaces.
narrow and serpentine pathways of the castle park inspire us to interweave new ones that move along smoothly to shape the mingling sinuous waves of the new riverbank, like an expanding rippling effect, which provides a starting point, an integrative network that competes for continuous, flexible and unpredictable new connections with pedestrian-only and shared service streets between both ends of the site, and so the aura river, weaving the shoreline thread by thread with different levels of functions and landscape.
how can an overly grown concrete ferry port be salvaged as a part of the city again and expand channels to hook up to existing territory, the river aura, the history and future of the site?
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the museum of the history and future is shaped like a big rippling and swaying effect of the earth and water as the park extends from the castle to the shoreline. the castle, museum, and park triangle is envisioned as a space that brings people together and is setting in motion several activities at the same time in relatively remote areas, including various functions promoting collective actions within four seasons.
the sloping topography of the museum enables both keeping a tab on the castle and the river. the museum square serves a capacity of ten thousand people for concerts with the help of floating stages and platforms. hockey tournaments and “blades of glory” festivals are held when the surface of the river becomes suitable.
how can an overly grown concrete ferry port be salvaged as a part of the city again and expand channels to hook up to existing territory, the river aura, the history and future of the site?
“
”
demolishing an existing structure is not fair, however, you need to let go if it has already accomplished its mission and become obsolete. it is one of the main decisions to demolish the outdated terminal buildings which are to be re-built and transform the area with its right to more open, public and green spaces.
narrow and serpentine pathways of the castle park inspire us to interweave new ones that move along smoothly to shape the mingling sinuous waves of the new riverbank, like an expanding rippling effect, which provides a starting point, an integrative network that competes for continuous, flexible and unpredictable new connections with pedestrian-only and shared service streets between both ends of the site, and so the aura river, weaving the shoreline thread by thread with different levels of functions and landscape.
how can an overly grown concrete ferry port be salvaged as a part of the city again and expand channels to hook up to existing territory, the river aura, the history and future of the site?
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