Situation:

Elkhor City in Qatar is preparing to host the FIFA 22 World Cup. The city is known for its harsh weather, low density and high dependence on car-based transportation!

Project:

Environmental approach by Looking to Qatar’s harsh weather as a special opportunity to make an interesting architectural design. Especially, considering solar radiation and wind analysis.

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Environmental analysis:

Exploring solar radiation effect on basic geometries in the site to better understand the heat gain of different geometries. Flat surfaces will lead to much more heat gain, in sequence much more cooling energy and costs. Domes -as inspiration from Islamic architecture - can have much less heat gain.

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Form finding:

The selected shape (Elongated Dome) is an interesting result as it is the combination of a Normal box ( giving the simplest architectural form for the spatial program ) + The Islamic/Arabic dome which is the traditional cooling method!

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Design: