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AI Ain University Competition (United Arab Emirates University, University Town Project)

FIle consists of 87 drawings and 20 photographs prepared for Sheik Aid bin Naraya, Minister of Education, United Arab Emirates. The competition design prepared for this proposed University, in the oasis city of AI Ain in the United Arab Emirates, sought to provide a modem interpretation of the historical principles of Islamic design. The project was conceived as an axial plan with crossing axes at the entries to the various faculties, achieving their own specific identity. Particularly important was the need to weave the existing buildings of the University into the plan. An architectural vocabulary was developed as a reinterpretation of "desert" architecture, whereby walls were conceived massively in nature with small punched openings to admit light. Such walls protected the inner spaces from the harsh surrounding environment and these spaces were to be enriched in a variety of ways. Spaces were conceived in a hierarchical manner by means of size and finish material. Courtyards, some internalized and climate controlled, became the focus of the architecture, and were protected from the environment by high walls and overhead trellises. Each courtyard was provided with a decorative water feature and appropriate landscaping. In keeping with most Islamic buildings, particular emphasis was placed on the internal nature of space, doorways, passages, and gates to each space. The major entrance to the project is approached directly by the main axis where an enveloping semicircular administration building accepts visitors and dignitaries. The axial plan is broken only by the various "prayer" spaces, or Mosques, which turn in the direction of Mecca. Particularly important to the project were the series of gates at the axial entry points, giving the project its outward architectural richness.

Islamic University of Madinah

File includes 604 drawings, 33 presentation boards, 150 photographs, and 1 model of the entrance gate. The Islamic University of Madinah is distinguished both by its religious location and by the fact that it represents a centre for the collection, preservation, and dissemination of Islamic heritage. It is situated at the Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah, an oasis town surrounded by the desert and the rocky mountains. The valleys are the source of its water supply. The 120 hectare site also incorporates existing buildings. The university campus is characterized by the integration of teaching and living spaces organized around a hierarchy of courts. The Mosque and Faculties occupy the centre of the campus. Low buildings, not exceeding four storeys, maintain a human scale. The main gate faces the City of Madinah and the axes of the buildings are aligned to acknowledge the religiously significant Qibla in Makkah. The prominent arrival court is landscaped with water fountains and gardens as a forecourt to the main Mosque. The residential buildings are clustered, as are the Faculty buildings, housing about 2 000 students in nine-person dwelling units. Covered pedestrian walkways link the facilities beyond the campus core, such as the sports facilities, faculty housing, and commercial districts. The architectural style is based on Islamic forms: simple massing, grouping buildings around courtyards, and orientation of individual components within buildings towards courtyards, which are a source of natural light, air, and visual relief. Courtyards, arcades around courtyards, and gateways to individual buildings are the repetitive elements found throughout the campus.

Etisalat Building

File includes:

  • 190 Drawings: 4 site plans, 51 plans, 20 sections, 3 8 elevations, 3 6 exterior perspectives, 11 interior perspectives, 5 diagrammatic sketches, 1 aerial view, 22 details: floor patterns, general patterns, elevations, dome geometry; 2 combination drawings: 1 plan I section, 1 plan I elevation
  • 78 Photographs: 61 prints of model, 17 miscellaneous

Building on the success of the Abu Dhabi project, the client, the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, requested a design for its Dubai site. It would be a variation on the themes developed for Abu Dhabi. The functions were to be virtually the same but on a substantially larger site than that of Abu Dhabi. The site provided in Dubai was near the Dubai Creek opposite the Sheraton Hotel in a zone scheduled for future development of major buildings. As the first in this zone, Etisalat sought to address a future visual corridor to the creek and to the other major cultural buildings. The scheme developed into a 16 storey office tower with a facetted curtain wall similar to that of the Abu Dhabi plan but with curved core walls on the east and west faces. The principal materials included granite, green tinted glass and painted aluminum. The project also utilized a radome and the combination of the curvatures of the rotunda. The walls of the tower and the radome, together with the stepped forms of the parking building, have created a most interesting play of forms, finding great favour with both the users and the Dubai citizens alike.

Photographs

Includes:

  • 126 prints: 14 of model, 1 of site, 9 site plans, 23 of the king's visit, 5 perspectives, 7 finished details, 7 of university logo.
  • 22 negatives of university logo.

Optinegatives

Includes 149 drawings: 18 site plans, 2 key plans, 19 topographic plans, 50 plans, 1 section, 1 elevation, 15 exterior perspectives, 4 diagrams: academic facilities, public and married community accessibility, academic accessibility, typical faculty groupings, 27 technical diagrams; 12 combination drawings: 5 plan I section, 3 section I elevation, 1 plan I section I elevation, 2 site plan I plan I section I elevation, 1 site plan I key plan I plan I section I elevation.

Unidentified drawings

Includes 8 drawings (4 plans, 1 section, 1 elevation; 2 combination drawings: 1 plan I section, 1 plan I elevation).

Fire station

Includes 5 drawings ( 1 circulation diagram; 4 combination drawings: 2 plan I section I elevation, 2 site plan I plan I section I elevation).

Service and vehicular routes

Includes 6 drawings (2 site plans; 4 combination drawings: 1 plan I elevation, 1 plan I section I elevation, 2 site plan I plan I section I elevation).

Sewage system

Includes 4 drawings (1 plan, 1 elevation; 2 combination drawings: 1 plan I section I elevation, 1 site plan I plan I section I elevation.)

Water system

Includes 7 drawings (7 combination drawings: 1 site plan I plan, 1 plan I elevation, 1 plan I section I elevation, 4 site plan I plan I section I elevation). The drawings treat the water tower, the underground reservoir and the pumping station.

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