The three hundred hectares dedicated to Doha’s Central Park stretch out along the Doha Corniche. A new neighborhood takes shape on this unique site positioned towards the bay. Our ambitions for the site involve the creation of an “inhabited park”, a typology representative of the Qatar cultural identity. We propose small, dense urban pockets positioned within a vast park that brings together a miniaturized version of each of the geographical and landscape components of the coast. The park's composition takes its cue from the figure of the wadi. Naturally sculpted by torrential rains, the bed of a wadi, is lined with small agricultural plots outside of these periods of intense rainfall. Our design transplants these characteristic features of the Qatari landscape through the creation of long dry valleys, dug out directly from the existing relief of the land, and made to converge towards the bay. Public gardens are structured by orderly plantings, reminiscent of agrarian patterns and comprised of plant species that evoke the Qatari rawdats. These urban wadis converge towards the bay, opening onto an artificial lagoon, before reaching the gulf and a beach that stretches along the coast. Located between land and lagoon, the promenade along the corniche provides an exceptional public space.
Qatati Petroleum
MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste
Atelier Jean Nouvel, architect (lead consultant)
375 ha (926,6 acres)