Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy

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    Project entry 2008 Africa Middle East - "Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy, Dubai, UAE": Xeritown dunescape: a (re)active urban form that respects and adapts to the social and environmental context within which it grows.

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    Members of the winning team of the Holcim Awards Acknowledgement prize 2008 for "Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy, Dubai, UAE" (l-r): Sabine Müller, Andreas Quednau, Ahmed Al Ali, Farid A.

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    Project entry 2008 Africa Middle East - "Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy, Dubai, UAE": Active urban edge: architecture, infrastructure and landscape come together defining a space of intensified urban life.

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    Project entry 2008 Africa Middle East - "Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy, Dubai, UAE": Xeritown urban plan: islands in the landscape.

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    Project entry 2008 Africa Middle East - "Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy, Dubai, UAE": Responding to the sun.

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    Project entry 2008 Africa Middle East - "Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy, Dubai, UAE": Wind: enhancing biodiversity.

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    Project entry 2008 Africa Middle East - "Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy, Dubai, UAE": Water and biodiversity: benefiting from the winds.

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    Project entry 2008 Africa Middle East - "Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy, Dubai, UAE": Soil: adapting to the topography.

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    Project entry 2008 Africa Middle East - "Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy, Dubai, UAE": Energy/public space: conserving resources.

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    Project entry 2008 Africa Middle East - "Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy, Dubai, UAE": Social life and community: conserving resources.

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    Project entry 2008 Africa Middle East - "Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy, Dubai, UAE": Climate reactive living: promoting social interaction.

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    Project entry 2008 Africa Middle East - "Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy, Dubai, UAE": Holcim Awards Acknowledgement prize 2008 Africa Middle East: (l-r) Ahmed Al Ali and Andreas Quednau.

  • Awards Acknowledgement prize 2008–2009 Middle East Africa

The Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy is a mixed-use property development on Dubai’s outskirts. The strategy returns to the traditional settlement principles of Arab villages, focused on narrow shade-covered streets, intimate courtyards and perforated walls. By integrating the desert and local climate, the result is a systematically adapted and optimized design.

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Ideas: Circular Design

The Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy is a mixed-use property development on Dubai’s outskirts.

The strategy returns to the traditional settlement principles of Arab villages, focused on narrow shade-covered streets, intimate courtyards and perforated walls. By integrating the desert and local climate, the result is a systematically adapted and optimized design.

Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy

Project authors

  • Thomas Mika

    Reflexion AG

    Switzerland

  • Joachim Schultz

    SMAQ - architecture urbanism research

    Germany

  • Ahmed Al Ali

    X-Architects

    United Arab Emirates

  • Farid Esmaeil

    X-Architects

    United Arab Emirates

  • Johannes Grothaus

    Johannes Grothaus & Partners

    Germany

  • Sabine Müller

    SMAQ - architecture urbanism research

    Germany

  • Andreas Quednau

    SMAQ - architecture urbanism research

    Germany

Project updates

November 13, 2008 | Holcim Awards | Marrakech, Morocco

Sustainable construction projects applauded across Africa Middle East

The winners of the second Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction from across region Africa Middle East were announced at a ceremony in Marrakech. Total prize money of USD 270,000 was presented to eleven projects that illustrated the broad scope for applying sustainable construction approaches to the built environment across public and private architecture, urban planning, and environmental remediation.

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June 19, 2008 | Regional Jury Report – Africa Middle East | Johannesburg, South Africa

“Commended for its novel, alternative approach to property development” – Holcim Awards Jury

Xeritown is a mixed-use property development at an urban scale located on the outskirts of Dubai. The proposal respects its site-context of desert hot and arid climate, while at the same time demonstrating lessons and principles out of the rich tradition of city patterns and dwellings in the Middle East. Most projects in the area consider the site as tabula rasa on which to impose an artificial urban context.

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February 29, 2008 | Project Entry & Details | Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Project Entry 2008 for Africa Middle East

The Xeritown responsive urban planning strategy is a mixed-use property development on Dubai’s outskirts. The strategy returns to the traditional settlement principles of Arab villages, focused on narrow shade-covered streets, intimate courtyards and perforated walls. By integrating the desert and local climate, the result is a systematically adapted and optimized design.

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates