CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS
The proposal stands as a landmark embedded within the strata of the earthen landscape, inspired by the history of the city’s folk culture and by the performative aspects of water-man relationships within the site, as these relationships happened due to the existence of underground spring water which occupied an ecological, economical, and social position. Water was deeply associated with the norms and cultures that remained immortal in our folklore, allowing itself to generate spaces for leisure and community.
As an ore monolith body under the sky of Adhari, the volume of the performing space stands on a sloping valley, designed to act as a path of sequential voids and straits that orchestrate the pedestrian stream towards the compelling volume of the performance hall where the rest of the project’s program are fused within the language of the landscape, emphasizing the main volume of the Centre.
The circulation route starts at the edge of the site as a descending mark on the land, where the sides of this route gradually rise to form a meandering narrow corridor that sweeps into wide open spaces and define the main entrance points.
The frontal area of open land acts as an ecological/communal landscape, serving as a ground for outdoor public events, outdoor film projections, gathering spaces, a performance arena, and a habitat for various organisms by introducing the cultivation of native plants. The subtle sloping area of the landscape is increasing the ecological and hydrological function of the land where rainwater can flow by gravitational means as a landscape feature and as a strategy for collecting and filtering grey water for irrigation. 

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RAK ART FOUNDATION
2022 
ADHARI, BAHRAIN
COMPETITION, RAK ARCHITECTURE PRIZE, FIRST PLACE 

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