Landscape Design
Office: waiwai design
Status: Complete
Location: Dubai, UAE
Site Area: 5,100 sqm
Built-Up Area: 5,100 sqm
Year: 2018
Role: Architect
Status: Complete
Location: Dubai, UAE
Site Area: 5,100 sqm
Built-Up Area: 5,100 sqm
Year: 2018
Role: Architect
Located along the water's edge of Dubai creek and adjacent to the Jameel Arts Center, this park is the United Arab Emirates' first open air art park, The park was designed as an open public space with no fence to encourage social interaction through art. It welcomes Dubai's diverse cultural community to gather around art and engage in a public dialogue.
Given the sensitive desert climate of the gulf, it is designed mainly as a fluid hardscape with a selection of regional plants that require minimal irrigation. In addition to the given artwork we introduced facilities that further engage the public. These facilities include a 200-seat amphitheater, a children's sand playground, a food stall area shaded by umbrellas as well as built-in board games tables The art works and facilities are arranged to follow a water ripple like flow, hidden in circular geometries. This allows for an organic pedestrian flow, seamlessly connection to the colonnade around the arts center and the corniche along the creek. Our selection of the green and yellow pre-cast tiles correlates with our design selection of the pearlescent facade panels of the art center.
Master plan
