ALMADINA JUNCTURE - Alqatami Aziz
2021
A public-realm architectural precedent illustrating a monumental floating roof canopy providing deep shade for an open urban plaza.
- What we like about this project
- The extreme thinness and span of the monolithic roof canopy relative to its massive support columns.
Materials
- textured-concrete
- paving-blocks
- palm-wood
- water
Visual identifiers
- floating-canopy
- monolithic-column
- palm-plaza
- textured-paving
Style tags
- contemporary
- monumental
- climatic
- urban-design
Visual tags
- public-realm
- canopy
- microclimate
- urban-square
- monumental
- Geometry
- A vast, open plaza spanned by a monolithic low-slung horizontal canopy supported by heavy curved columns.
- Structural guess
- Massive post-tensioned concrete slab supported by heavy reinforced concrete piers.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; the expansive canopy creates a vast macro-climate roof towering over human figures and palms.
- Lighting
- Intense overhead sunlight casting sharp shadows from palm fronds and figures across the textured ground plane.
- Atmosphere
- Sun-drenched and airy with pockets of deep, protective shadow underneath the grand hovering roof.
- Environmental context
- Open urban square populated by mature date palms, distant architecture, and open water basins.
- Spatial experience
- Movement flows across a wide sunlit plaza transitioning into deep shaded zones sheltered beneath the massive overarching roof.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical palm trunks punctuate the expansive horizontal ground plane and massive overhead canopy.
- Style reading
- Monumental contemporary tropical urbanism
- Program
- Civic public plaza and canopy shelter
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- urban
- Materials
- textured-concrete, paving-blocks, palm-wood, water
- Visual identifiers
- floating-canopy, monolithic-column, palm-plaza, textured-paving
- Style tags
- contemporary, monumental, climatic, urban-design
- Visual tags
- public-realm, canopy, microclimate, urban-square, monumental
- Geometry
- A vast, open plaza spanned by a monolithic low-slung horizontal canopy supported by heavy curved columns.
- Structural guess
- Massive post-tensioned concrete slab supported by heavy reinforced concrete piers.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; the expansive canopy creates a vast macro-climate roof towering over human figures and palms.
- Lighting
- Intense overhead sunlight casting sharp shadows from palm fronds and figures across the textured ground plane.
- Atmosphere
- Sun-drenched and airy with pockets of deep, protective shadow underneath the grand hovering roof.
- Environmental context
- Open urban square populated by mature date palms, distant architecture, and open water basins.
- Spatial experience
- Movement flows across a wide sunlit plaza transitioning into deep shaded zones sheltered beneath the massive overarching roof.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical palm trunks punctuate the expansive horizontal ground plane and massive overhead canopy.
- Style reading
- Monumental contemporary tropical urbanism
- Program
- Civic public plaza and canopy shelter
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- urban