The Hub 综合体建筑 by Adel Badrawy is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 建筑与结构设计 Competition Category.

铁建筑· 2021

The Hub 综合体建筑

by Adel Badrawy

Client: Rawasem Architecture Workshop 'RAW'

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 建筑 Category

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The Design

About The Hub 综合体建筑

The Hub是一座位于沙特阿拉伯利雅得的综合体建筑。设计将餐厅、小型零售商铺、面向年轻人的大型休闲活动区以及办公空间汇聚一处,各功能区均设有独立入口与垂直交通系统。所有功能被统合于一个巨大的顶棚之下,为下方空间提供遮阳,同时呼应传统苏克集市的意象。廊道、天桥、屋顶花园与景观区域将各个体量彼此串联。项目总建筑面积为20,000平方米,其中包含8,400平方米的室外及景观空间。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

The Hub 综合体建筑是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计The Hub 综合体建筑将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。The Hub 综合体建筑因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This is a mixed-use building. It consists of restaurants, small retail shops, huge recreational area for the youth and finally office areas that are possibly for reastaurants management.
Every single function of these has it's own accessibility and experience, yet all under one roof, in this case 'huge canopy'.
Distributed as the following, the ground and the mezzanine floor accommodate the restaurants. The first floor is for restaurants and a recreational area for youth both totally separated with unique accessibility for each, while the second floor accommodates the office spaces with separated accessibility and vertical circulation.
Dimensions & Packaging: This project has a total BUA of 20,000 m2.
The area is efficiently distributed as follows.
10,100 m2 of rentable indoor and outdoor areas, 2,400 m2 of service areas and 8,400 m2 of outdoor and landscape area.
Tags: commercial, Architecture, Sustainability, Contemporary, mall, AlRiyadh, KSA
Production Technology: Stating the various functions this project accommodates with different privacy levels for each. The design team had to think of this building as a small urban project with different buildings, different heights, and different access with corridors and landscape in between.
Even creating bridges between buildings and roof gardens to make it seem like a living city under one roof.
This small city needed a universal canopy to protect and enhance this feeling of authentic urbanism.
Design Challenge: The big challenge was to design a place that accommodates so many functions with so many different privacy levels for each. Yet all under one roof, with one main entrance, only allowed at the north side.
The Saudi culture has a huge impact when it comes to retail and dining projects like this one.
Since it's culturally not allowed in the malls of KSA for the youth to access malls or food courts by their own unless with a family, the challenge was to distinguish the youth recreational area and separate it from the restaurants to prevent duplication. The same goes to the office areas.
The hot dry climate was also a big challenge. Since it's considered an authentic urban experience, there had to be outdoor spaces, roof gardens and terraces overlooking one of the main axis of Al Riyadh.
The design after all had to provide comfort climate solutions for the users.
Inspiration: As a place of retail, dining and office spaces, the project was inspired mainly by the old traditional market 'souq' in the middle east, where the functions are almost the same.
The narrow corridors passing through the retails, the universal canopy covering the spaces underneath creating an authentic urban experience and protecting people from the direct sun rays, along with the harsh stone covered facades with its traditional pattern.
All designed with a contemporary treatment that fits perfectly with today's retail brands as well as modern day costumers.
Project Duration: This project is located in the heart of Al Riyadh, KSA. It's in the intersection of two main roads, the eastern ring road and Abdullah Bin Rashed road.
The design started in march 2019 and the construction documents are on going.
Operation Flow: The hub gives an authentic urban experience for people dining, playing, working or just walking in the corridors or roof gardens within one universal space.
It serves families who are dining while sending their young ones to a place where they can play and hang out without mixing both zones. A recreational area that also allows individual youths to attend without families.
It gives offices a unique experience to be a part of this small city with it's roof gardens, landscape and connecting bridges, while clearly viewing the city of Riyadh.
Team Members: Lead Architect : Adel Badrawy
Senior Architect : Sarah Ashraf
Architect : Menna Ehab