Vol :37 Issue No.1 2012 - Open House International

Khaled Galal Ahmed
open house international Vol.37 No.1, March 2012 A ‘Fareej-in-the-Sky’: Towards a Community-oriented Design...
Table 1. Summary of the proposed design solutions for the community-relevant problems as proposed by the three design
initiatives (Source: by the author).
community centered on shared public and landscaped
spaces in the Middle East Cities and thus
introducing the idea for “neighborhood parks in
the sky” (Fig.8). These shared spaces are intended
to act as catalysts for creating a community identity
within a large living space. The whole complex is
sharing a retail souk (traditional shopping center)
environment in the base. The vertical public spaces
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and landscape are distributed connectively on all
the four parts of the project. Vertical cores are used
for services, vertical circulation and also work as
supports for the floating habitable bridges (Fig. 9).
The four components are capsulated in an external
structure ‘veil’ (Fig. 8 a,b and Fig 9) which provides
solar energy collection, through photovoltaic panels
spread throughout the exterior screen, and aid-