Flanked on its sides by a number of major infrastructural elements of Doha's periphery, the Qatar Cultural and Sports Hub is in an essential location where the capital's center, its old industrial port, and its newer airport neighborhood further south all meet.

The seven hundred and forty two hectares of recreational, sporting, and residential expanse are divided up into five distinct areas: the Old Port (redesigned as a promenade dotted with cultural developments), the South Ledge (a park running unbrokenly alongside the sea maintaining within it the already existing hotel complexes), Celebration Park, the Sports Plaza (a pedestrian link between the four other districts which spans across the highway; among its numerous sporting facilities, the Sports Plaza features a stadium endorsed by FIFA to host World Cup matches), and lastly Salt Lake Valley (an Olympic-sized rowing pool surrounded by a park and upmarket accommodation).

Given the considerable programmatic diversity involved, the landscape becomes fundamental in unifying these spaces. A unique and combined strategy that gradually provides, from south to north, large landscape structures which serve in framing the capital, allows these different terrains to be understood and grasped in their totality. The overall plan succeeds in joining the city's arid inland area with its coast.

In direct contact with the arid enclosure of the airport, the rowing pool is surrounded by a dune-like topography, itself striated by planted corridors providing shade. These corridors recall the patterns of valleys dramatically sculpted during periods of torrential rain. Moving north, a more rational plant configuration takes over, organizing the residential neighborhoods on the model of rawdats (garden in Arabic).

This landscape metaphor continues to spread all the way up to the seafront of Celebration Park. The site is organized into radiating strips, between which circulation remains completely free. Each strip contains its own appeal, with boundaries established by the linear elements that serve in highlighting each of the separate radials: walls, irrigation canals, green curtains, etc. The landscape isolates and renders identifiable the devices at play through a precise arrangement of types (ground materials, topography, plantings): rawdats, rocky formations, cultivated gardens, wetlands, and artificial mangroves, succeed one another up to the sea.