迪拜KOA Canvas · 创新混合用途设计的典范丨阿联酋迪拜丨T.ZED Architects

Architect: T.ZED Architects

Location：Dubai - UAE

Category：Offices

KOA Canvas is a mix-used development that aims to reinterpret how people live, to re-imagine the public realm of cities, and last but not least to enable social interactions. The project has its own strong identity, compelling context and program, a sounding vision to produce a new model of modern living, whereby boundaries are not defined by where one lives, works and socialises.

T.ZED Architects design approach was anchored in the investigation of the site itself, the opportunity of responding to a diverse set of expectations and programmes – in such a nontypical mixed-use development, as well as materializing the client’s vision into a new architectural language and an urban catalyst for a new type of neighbourhood in a city like Dubai.

KOA Canvas documented the successful and sustainable transformation of an existing office building into a thriving urban space for communal activities alongside the creation of an additional two new-built structures, with a variety of programmes that express contemporary architecture of the region. Despite Dubai’s natural desert landscape, the design approach for such wider context in mind allowed T.ZED Architects to address the architectural proposition by absorbing and being inspired by the natural lush environment surrounding the project, and the elements beyond. This is reflected in the materiality inspired by the lavish eco-system around.

ON THE ARCHITECTURE and T.ZED ARCHITECTS PHILOSOPHY, CREATIVE APPROACH AND CONTRIBUTION

1) From where did you draw your inspirations?

The design brief presented by the client was very interesting to T.ZED Architects. The overall inspiration came from the unique context and the visionary program of the project. The opportunity to intervene architecturally within an existing raw concrete structure while designing two new adjacent buildings allowed us to investigate how a sensible, seamless and successful conversation between the two different buildings could be established. The scale of the project, the design process and the high-level outcomes has led T.ZED Architects to investigate the brief on many levels.

2) and what were your influences in the creation of this project?

The site itself, the diverse set of expectations non-typical of a mix-use development and the client’s passionate vision as well as the opportunity to materialize the context into an architectural were the greatest influences. From an architectural perspective, embedding nature into modern residential areas was also the most compelling driver. This level of accessibility, integration and ‘seamless indoor-outdoor living’ was a great design driver and inspiration to us. This project gave the opportunity for T.ZED Architects to identify a balance between a more traditional culture dictated by an existing framework - to be given a new life - and a modern one anticipating the needs of social customs of our times (internal courtyards and modern majlis). This interesting prospect to redefine the modern language of buildings fits with our practice’s ambition to develop a contemporary architectural framework that is of the region.

3) What is important to you about this project?

- The Mexican architectural and interior design firm Habitación 116, founded in 2002 by architects Rafael Rivera and Javier Claverie, is an architecture and interior design studio as well as a furniture and decor shop that offers a completely custom experience for each client, whether it’s designing a space or an object.- The Museum Tower Kyobashi/The Artizon Museum client is Nagasaka Corporation, Ishibashi Foundation, and the construction site is in Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. The design/supervision is by Nikken Sekkei Ltd, and the main applications are Offices, museum.- KOA Canvas is a project that is initiated by a highly motivated, visionary client who is very much in line with the ethos of T.ZED Architects. It is contextually relevant and aims to contemporarise regional architecture.- The project has its own strong identity, compelling context and program, a sounding vision to produce a new model of modern living. Boundaries are not defined by where one lives, works and socialises; all is meshed and integrated in one place.- The materials used in the project include grey quartzite stone cladding, copper mesh and thermally modified tulipwood, which have been utilized on the exterior envelop of the development.- The approach of design with such wider context in mind, aims to address nature and the elements beyond. This is reflected in the materiality inspired by the lush eco-system surrounding the area.- The overall choice of materials follows T.ZED Architects’ philosophy to create environments that are contextually relevant to the region.

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