The Jameel Arts Centre is an exhibition space, artist residence, and creative enterprise incubator overlooking Dubai Creek. Conceived as a family of forms bounded by a colonnade, its massing and spatiality draws from the rich architectural tradition of the region. The colonnade is an active social space, framing gardens and enlivening the waterfront promenade. Courtyards are galleries of nature, places for gardens and sculpture. And they are spaces of repose between galleries. The Centre’s design fragments the courtyard, continually layering a relationship between inside and outside, art and nature. Location-----Dubai, UAE Use-------------Art Centre Project Team---Chris Lee, Bolam Lee, Martin Jameson, Simon Whittle, Fei Wu, Ahmad Tahhan, Joyce Chen, Onusa Charuwana, Julia Cabanas, Kevin Fu, Jerome Ng, Jerrell Goh, Darpan Danak, Michelle Keimig, and Gordon Rose. Client----Abdul Latif Jameel Community Initiatives Engineering----Buro Happold Landscape-----Anouk Vogel Cost Analysis----Gardiner & Theobald Website---- www.serie.co.uk Jaddaf art park is the United Arab Emirates first open-air art park. waiwai designed the park as an open public space with no fence to encourage social interaction through art. It welcomes Dubai’s diverse cultural community to gather around art and engage in a public dialogue. Given the sensitive desert climate of the gulf, it is designed mainly as a fluid hardscape with a selection of regional plants that require minimal irrigation. In addition to the given artwork, we introduced facilities that further engage the public. These facilities include a 200-seat amphitheatre, a children’s sand playground, a food stall area shaded by umbrellas as well as built-in board game tables. The artworks and facilities are arranged to follow a water ripple-like, hidden circular geometry. That allows for an organic pedestrian flow, seamlessly connecting to the colonnade around the arts centre and the corniche along the creek. Our selection of the green and yellow pre-cast tiles correlates with our design selection of the pearlescent façade panels of the art centre. Site Area ----5,200sqm Built-up Area ----5,100 sqm Client ------Art Jameel Year ----2018 Website----- waiwaidesign.com Voice: Divya Ros Davis www.instagram.com/divyarosdavis Thanks to Three Flaneurs India Arch Open www.instagram.com/threeflaneurs Thanks to Architect Sahil Latheef www.instagram.com/travellingsahil Follow us on Instagram www.instagram.com/sarkeetarchitect #sarkeetarchitect​ #dubai​ #minimalisticarchitecture #architecture #UAE #art #museum #exhibition #vlog #mallu #culture #travel

• published: 17 Jan 2021
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