Jameel Arts Centre by Serie Architects opens in Dubai
Channel: A As Architecture
Date: 15/11/2018

Designed as a 10,000-square-metre, three-storey, multi-disciplinary space by Serie Architects, Jameel Arts Centre is the first non-governmental contemporary arts institution of its kind in the Gulf. The kunsthalle-inspired complex includes more than 1,000 square metres of dedicated gallery space, plus a 300-square-metre open-access research centre; events and screening spaces; a roof terrace; a restaurant; and a book and design shop. 

Inspiration for the building’s massing and spatiality draws from two regional architectural traditions on both intimate- and community-wide scale: the early Emirati Sha’abi houses that featured a series of rooms circling a courtyard, and the Madinat style of city planning characterised by an accumulation of houses with courtyards. Through a repeated juxtaposition of geometric forms and gardens, the Centre’s design fragments and tessellates the courtyard, continually layering a relationship between inside and outside, art and nature. 

Colonnades create a porous interface between intimate gallery spaces and the social life of the public waterfront promenade. The decision to overlay galleries also serves to provide sightlines to several spaces from a single vantage point – be it a garden or another exhibition space – continually building connections between spaces and initiating conversation among viewers. The building’s surfaces incorporate an interplay between raw concrete and semi-reflective aluminium cladding, creating a subtle shimmer in response to the surrounding water and atmospheric changes, while its clustered form creates self-shading courtyards and allows for cross ventilation. Source by Jameel Arts Centre. Info project https://goo.gl/zfH8nS

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