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Located in the centre of Doha’s popular Souq Waqif, the hotel is on a plot that contains three old Qatari houses built around 1930. The project concept respects all three structures, adding bridges to connect the three buildings. The hotel is characterized by high ceilings with traditional beams, open courtyards and lavish woodwork including carved doors-all have been preserved and the main building’s courtyard has a new staircase and water feature. All the courtyards have light covers to protect from sun and sandstorms, and wooden screens have been introduced throughout. The hotel has 25 rooms and suites, a courtyard restaurant, meeting rooms, a spa and gym, and a library and reading room. Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture

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Organised around a central plaza at the American University of Cairo, the student housing village employs a series of common spaces - colonnades, passages and plazas, gardens and water features - that progressively lead to the privacy of the individual courtyard. The courtyard house is, in fact, the basic building block for housing in the university’s new campus, employed for the men’s and the women’s wings as well as for faculty housing. Each courtyard cluster is two to three storeys high, and houses around 40 students. Constructed of poured concrete and concrete block with a stucco finish, the architectural character of the Student Housing is appealingly open, colorful and suitable for common study and relaxation. Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture

Student Residential Campus

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This addition consists of three major components: Everyday Facilities, Community Services, and the Student Convention Centre. Connected to the rest of the campus through a strong north-oriented axis, the buildings comprising the addition are arranged around the central convention centre auditorium to form a series of outdoor spaces articulated by paths, pergola, plazas, stairways and fountains, creating shaded connections, formal and informal gathering spaces. Materials and finishes include Egyptian limestone and alabaster, exposed and stuccoed concrete, and hardwood mashrabiyya window shades. The campus centre aspires to local traditions and open-air solutions in a design distinctive to the architect in its planes, volumes and colours. <hr>Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture

American University in Cairo Campus Centre

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In 2004, at the invitation of Qatar Foundation, Carnegie Mellon joined the Education City project. The college is located on a site crossed by one of the main pedestrian promenades of the master plan (Green Spine) and has been developed as a rectangular building along the north side, a semi-circular building on the south side, and an atrium in the centre which connects to the Green Spine. Public service areas like the food court, library and lounges are in direct relation with the central atrium. The buildings were designed as a series of volumes, separated from each other by outdoor courtyards. Source: The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 2011.

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

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The Student Centre’s services include health care, counselling, housing and recreational facilities interlinked by communal spaces. The designers, inspired by traditional souks and courtyards providing shelter from the exterior, discovered many resemblances between Arab and Mexican architecture. The concrete building with thick sandstone-lined walls provides good insulation to the climate. The sports hall is a steel structure. East- and west-orientated windows shaded with lattice and closed south elevations help avoid solar gain. Heat pipes, sensors and irrigation features are amongst integrated climatic controls. A sculpture garden, titled Helix, is designed by the artist Jan Hendrix and features countless water jets and aluminium panels. Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture

HBKU Student Centre

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The Texas A&amp;M Engineering College lies within Doha’s Education City and consists of two main buildings, the Academic Quadrangle and Research Octagon, connected by an atrium. In response to the climate, the buildings’ exterior shading elements are oriented for maximum effect, and some facades have a double skin to minimise heat entering through the wall, while others have insulating glass to block UV radiation. Skylights have high performing glass and external and internal louvers to allow natural light but avoid inefficient heat gain. The public spaces are designed as informal meeting places for faculty and students with bridges, arcades, courtyards, fountains and vegetation to create welcoming spaces for interaction and movement around the campus. Source: The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 2011.

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