Location: Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
Client: Qatar University
Consultants: Arup

[ URBAN DESIGN / EDUCATION ]
[ 1106 ]

New mini-campus for the engineering departments at Qatar University, Doha. The design creates finger-like buildings housing six departments, each with a top-lit internal "street" forming a hive of department activity. Buildings and nodes have distinct entrances and identities to assist way-finding. Connecting all are a variety of common hubs, courtyards, and a larger scale "seed pod" of common facilities shared between departments.

Location: Al Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq
Client: Al Nahrain University
Consultants: Al Khan Engineering Consultations

[ EDUCATION / RESIDENTIAL ]
[ 1006 ]

Design for new residential and faculty buildings for the University of Al Nahrain, Baghdad. The design posits a central courtyard which acts as a focus for landscaping, entrances, circulation, shared cafes, and meeting rooms - the communal heart. The buildings adopt a common material palette but have radically different characters: teaching spaces project into and engage the courtyard; the residential wing is introverted with enigmatic screened bedroom bays (as traditional Baghdadi shanashils).