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November 16th, 2005, 03:23 PM
KUWAIT PEARLS SEA CITIES, KUWAIT
Project Dates: Design 1992 Completed 1995 :bash:
Client: Kuwait Pearls Real Estate Company
Size: 12, 000 hectares
The scheme was the result of major UIA supported international competition held in 1989 to plan one of six new sea-based cities in Kuwait. The competition was run on behalf of the Kuwaiti Government with major co-ordination undertaken by Buro Happold Consulting Engineers of England to solve housing shortages in Kuwait, and to generate tourism income.
The proposal establishes three major water basins extending off existing deltas and utilising existing hydrology. Each basin is sub divided into smaller basins to facilitate staging as well as to control tidal pressures. These basins were equated to individual community settlements each identified by a town centre. The central basin is proposed to contain a major city centre located close to existing infrastructure and waterways and in proximity to the gulf.
As a resort-orientated residential city, the design is for an organic environment both in plan form and response to existing environment. The proposal utilises passive energy resources and systems, in the absence of existing services, as the primary energy system. Most of the town and city centre environments are envisaged as a series of interconnected closed and open pedestrian spaces with focus on a main square or marine.
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Project Dates: Design 1992 Completed 1995 :bash:
Client: Kuwait Pearls Real Estate Company
Size: 12, 000 hectares
The scheme was the result of major UIA supported international competition held in 1989 to plan one of six new sea-based cities in Kuwait. The competition was run on behalf of the Kuwaiti Government with major co-ordination undertaken by Buro Happold Consulting Engineers of England to solve housing shortages in Kuwait, and to generate tourism income.
The proposal establishes three major water basins extending off existing deltas and utilising existing hydrology. Each basin is sub divided into smaller basins to facilitate staging as well as to control tidal pressures. These basins were equated to individual community settlements each identified by a town centre. The central basin is proposed to contain a major city centre located close to existing infrastructure and waterways and in proximity to the gulf.
As a resort-orientated residential city, the design is for an organic environment both in plan form and response to existing environment. The proposal utilises passive energy resources and systems, in the absence of existing services, as the primary energy system. Most of the town and city centre environments are envisaged as a series of interconnected closed and open pedestrian spaces with focus on a main square or marine.
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http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/0dc0445971.jpg http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/a665ddc539.jpg