The site ARKAN 5 lies in a city which, historically, primarily relied on fishing as a means of trade while morphologically surrounded by desert in a city highly influenced by culture and religion

SPACE[LESS] CITY – ARKAN 5


ARKAN 5 BY ALI J AL-SAMMARRAIE
The site lies in a city which, historically, primarily relied on fishing as a means of trade while morphologically surrounded by desert in a city highly influenced by culture and religion, and in keeping this in mind, a religious/formal approach informed our design.
ARKAN 5 Mall
A drive through the city would unveil a kaleidoscope of elements borrowed from Islamic architecture such as domes. Finally, we identified the main architectural dilemma in Abu Shaghara, where the clash between two organisms [cars + people] generated a holistic architectural proposal.
ARKAN 5 commercial centre
The proposal to the existing urban problem is to elevate the car mall up and away from the city and give the landscape back to the people. In order to achieve this goal we thought to design a mega structure that will house all the programmatic needs of machine trading.
ARKAN 5 commercial centre 01
The resultant area beneath is human focused; there is retail, food and beverage areas and leisure with the landscape component. The project “Arkan 5” creates opportunities beyond its internal use and benefits; it fosters potential for economic growth in the neighborhood and provides opportunities to boost the infrastructure of the city and neighborhood.
ARKAN 5 commercial Car centre
The final aim is to maintain the local communities and enhance their lifestyles by bringing into the area new necessary public functions which are almost totally absent at the present time. As the name suggests, Arkan 5 is composed of 5 pillars on which rests the primary structure.
ARKAN 5 mall
The central pillar responds to the Qibla direction and forms the vertically open mosque space, further analysis and textual description can be extracted from the boards. Source by Ali J Al-Sammarraie.

ARKAN 5 Mall grapic file:

Concept idea:

ARKAN 5 concept idea
ARKAN 5 Diagram
ARKAN 5 global view

plans:

ARKAN 5 Plan B2-B1
ARKAN 5 Plan G1-L1
ARKAN 5 Plan L2-L3
ARKAN 5 Plan L4-L5

Sections:

ARKAN 5 Section AA'
ARKAN 5 Section BB'

Model:

ARKAN 5 Mall 3d model
Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Student Thesis Project: Ali J Al-Sammarraie, Rami Abdelhamid, Muhammed Aljbori.
Instructor: Cristiano Luchetti.
Clients: Sharjah Municapality.
Area: 34,900 sqm
Year: 2015 Spring
Images: Courtesy of Ali J Al-Sammarraie, Rami Abdelhamid and Muhammed Aljbori.
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