Al Hamla, Endurance Village

Doha, Qatar

Al Hamla, Endurance Village

Doha, Qatar

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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 project dedicated to horse racing brings together equine training circuits, competition and riding stables, and veterinary facilities. 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 organizes the site as a transition between the architecture, responding to very specific programmatic requirements, and its surrounding territory. The architecture is arrenged 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, concentric rows of trees spread out from the buildings. 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.

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Year:
2014
Status:
Study
Program:
Urban strategies, Cultural
Client:

Qatar Ministry of Youth and Sports

Project Team:

OMA urban planner, (lead consultant) / MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste / MOTTMACDONALD Engineering Services / RWDI Sustainability / LICHT KUNST LICHT (LKL) Specialist Lighting / SPACE AGENCY Signage & Wayfinding / C. JOPSON Sports facilities expert

Area:

68 ha (168 acres)