THE PEARLING OF AL MUHARAQ

The project objective is to renovate and revitalize the city of Al Muharraq, historically used to be known for its famous pearl.The design approach synthesizes the progressive mental evaluation and reevaluation of the urban environment with a bipolar constructive system: pedestrian vs. vehicular, spiritual vs. secular/commercial, and locals vs. visitors. At the same time, urban open spaces- plazas were incorporated to provide places for communing and celebration, placed in a pattern of 150m spacing. The pedestrians have the opportunity to commute in a convenient and scenic experience through a sequence of designed pedestrian walkways and plazas.