Endurance Village is a collection of equestrian facilities located on the western coast of Qatar, around eighty kilometers from Doha. Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, this enormous project dedicated to horse racing brings together equine training circuits, competition and riding stables, and veterinary facilities. Its design aims to meet the technical standards established by the Olympic Committee in view of the potential candidature for the 2024 Olympic Games.

The architectural complex emerging from the sand was designed by OMA. The complex organizes a sixty-eight hectare space around five circular buildings of varying size. The landscape project in turn organizes the site as a transition between the architecture, responding to very specific programmatic requirements, and its surrounding territory. As a result, the project arranges the architecture within an archipelago of thinly distributed palm trees and rawdats, while taking advantage of one relatively untouched side to create spectacular exterior training spaces for the horses. At the level of the village, the layout of plantings uses the abstract vocabulary of buildings scattered in the desert, which in combination create a network of shaded promenades.

Concentric rows of trees spread out from the buildings. They cross the sands in a pattern comparable to that of waves rolling across the surface of the water. These rows intersect one another in such a way as to create continuous equestrian tracks and a series of shaded public spaces. A second, more diffuse arrangement of palm trees completes the existing archipelago, while extending its pattern in the direction of the coast.