Project

DESERT ART VILLAGE IN QATAR, 2019

Client

Private investor

Challenge

A pop-up Village for Qatari desert with over 300 buildings, sustainable infrastructure and capacity to facilitate an international Arts Residency, a Learning Centre and a Desert lodge

Delivery

Professional development undertaken in a form of a collaboration between architects, craftsmen, engineers, technology innovators and agronoms.

Outcome

Development of a unique masterplan for the most picturesque part of Qatari desert, with sustainable infrastructure and unique designs of private and public spaces, based on nomadic architecture, to be built using no heavy machinery - only hands. One of the structures (Majlis) was invited to the official programme of Venice Architecture Biennale in 2020

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