Riyadh, 2006
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.