Desert Campus

Competition

Administrative

A master plan for a new administrative campus on four square kilometers of land along the new Khor Fakkan road. The scheme promotes a campus that is dense, compact, mixed, sustainable, and centered around pedestrian movement. This new urban center is meant to serve the surrounding suburban residential areas and provide the governmental and administrative facilities they need. The result is a hyper-dense, ecologically sensitive urban territory sitting within the desert setting with diverse building stock, cultural and recreational features, and a varied network of interconnected public open spaces. Twelve development clusters or quads are defined by “green fingers” which function as innovative green infrastructures and parkland zones. The urban fabric within each development cluster creates a range of interconnected urban neighborhoods. The structure of the urban block is defined by the campus quads.

In collaboration with Pragma Architects Planners ©