Site Scale Studies

Lulu Building Mosque

Karama Park

The site is a parking lot, that is used mostly for circulation and movement. The site contains 10 total existing trees. 7 are paired up while the remaining 3 are used to cast shade on a hotspot within the site. People go their for coffee and tea breaks and enjoy via shade. No seats are provided and people usually use the site to cut through to reach their destination. On the North is the mosque, On the west is the Apple International School, and on the east is the park A and lastly on the southwest is park B. To develope on this site, A flow diagram shows the movement that people take to arrive at their destination in the quickest way by cutting through the site. Additionally the site is between the two parks like a green corridor. Thus allowing me to focus on FLOW and TRANSITION within the site. Flow as in the movement of people and Transition between Park A to Park B.

Floor plan

For my Precedent Study. I looked at the Misson Possible Opportunity Pavillion in Expo 2020. The structure was designed by AGI Architects. The project was completed by October 2021 and the main building work had been done by Al Shafar General Contractors. This mega structure’s insentive is to connect individuals and builds on the rich urban history of the “plaza” and its universal significance as a place for people to connect across ages, language and culture, to celebrate our shared human experiences. My inspiration from the opportunity pavillion is the social impact and the movement that people can take to cut through the structure. The ground floor is split into districts with multiple access points into the structure. There is playfulness within the site with the structures on the roof. They are unaccessable but grant shade and shadow to the rest of the site. The structure looks interesting and different from every viewpoint. During night time, the structure lights up and it gives a different perspective to the structure. The spacial experience is very open and movement is accessable with space and vegetation that make it comfortable to walk through