Emirates
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Project • By UPA Italia by Paolo Lettieri Architects • Offices
Desert Box Centre
Desert Box is a small mixed-use center for shops and offices located in Madinat Zayed City, an oasis city in the middle of the desert in the Western Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
UPA Italia
UPA Italia
The customer's idea was to make the architecture look like commercial transport boxes, so as to give the project uniqueness and character, despite the simple functional program. The use of standard dimensions derives from the boxes. This meant that composite volumes and façade projections could be created like a sort of toy volumes. This allowed to give the building a less rigid and more informal look.
UPA Italia
UPA Italia
On the ground floor there are spaces for shops and possibly small cafeterias on the street. On the u... More
Project • By RABATANALAB • Pavilions
THE HIVE PAVILION
The hive is part of the masterplan Ipogea maintained by the city of AL Ain. The study scours and identifies new strategic vision for the redevelopment and upgrading of the area, where sustainability in combination with specific intervention has the rise as a model of Al Ain city oasis, where the integration of all is components historical, artistic, archaeological and nature are the basis of a multidimentional plan of urban oasis. A filter zone is designed around the urban periphery to shield the motorway network by palm trees , this identifying areas of protection and assigning to them the role of attractors.IN this context we find the hall witch ran parallel to the highway and helps to limit the spread to the urban areas of protection and... More