project ENSCONCE.

Community Narratives.

2nd year. Studio Project.

@ Karama, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Designing an aura for the diverse abode of karama, where the residents have an oppertunity to soak up with tranquillity and harmony within the natural habitat of Karama park.

Since Karama park acts as a safe haven from the busy atmosphere of karama, the sentiment of the end users of the park clearly mentioned they do not want a building which would repress their functionalities of the land parcels. So the two consequential challenges of the brief would be to intervene with a land parcel where the purporse of the parcels is retained and to blend to create an element of softscapes while working with constricted land parcels.

Spaces within the underground are linked together with the atrium to have maximum natural daylighting within the underground systems.

All the spaces that require sound supression with a lot of activity are structured within the basment

Main resources such library, social hub, av room, coworking spaces and the kitchen spreads are kept within the ground floor itself to promote easy access to the space. The plan was kept open for easy circulation with three vertical circulation points including an exclusive seating placed within the library around the light wells.