New housing district

Riyadh, 2006

  • New housing district, Quartier nouveau, Riyadh, 2006,Dragan Architecture, Paris
  • New housing district, Quartier nouveau, Riyadh, 2006,Dragan Architecture, Paris
  • New housing district, Quartier nouveau, Riyadh, 2006,Dragan Architecture, Paris
  • New housing district, Quartier nouveau, Riyadh, 2006,Dragan Architecture, Paris

Date 2006
Location Riyadh

On a 2,6 hectares ground, a new district will have to see the day : Riyadh-housing, a hospital, schools, a cultural center, tradings, mosques ? On this almost squared plot of land we imagined a kind of "ideal city " answering the specific cultural and climatic requirements of a Middle East Muslim community: typology of dwellings, pedestrian paths shielded from the glance, shaded places. A main pedestrian trading-bordered way connects the two great, extensively planted places of the two main mosques. All around are the places of the day-to-day mosques, linked by pedestrian paths and boarded by porticoes, which give to this district an air of a modern middle east Bologna.

New housing district, Quartier nouveau, Riyadh, 2006,Dragan Architecture, Paris