The Productive Community Home – دارّك

The Project is meant to focus on the role of architecture in encouraging community engagement in production through a new typological trend that comes out from the society conventions which is represented from the surrounding context revealed in;

Firstly, Productive Families who can produce different products in their home and sell them to get income as this refers directly to the main aim. Linking these families together to allow them to learn from each other how to produce and this offers a new typological addition to the families .

Furthermore , the artistic feature that shows up in the khalifa community in the artistic shows and the Talent of the society that revealed in preservation works and paintings done on buildings .

These groups will be focused on as these are subjected to achieve the required aim and the objectives adding to them a branding feature to light them up and make them directed to the new trends forming a new typological trend that comes out from context.

The program includes spaces for productive families to produce their products from connected workshop spaces and galleries as users can communicate visually and physically as they can teach each other and carry out their products. Moreover, there are spaces for the community outdoor shows . Furthermore, there are the artists spaces where the community can get out their talents in drawing paintings . Lastly the project has a branding zone as the community could learn how to brand their products and their art to the global and local Community through the new techniques in our era from online marketing and offline marketing.

The Project mass comes out from the users working space as it made them feel they were in their home , As it has a nearby meaning that reflect directly on the users which is the sense of intimation and a far meaning that the society is your home , as you can form and produce and you are welcomed in the community house revealing a collection of units calling for unity.

It reflects directly the main aim of the project as the project’s mass is an identity formation for The activity that is done by the users and it defines the projects theme and insure on how the Architectural form is a tool for identity formation.

The Project’s color scheme comes from the surrounding context to enrich the feeling of intamency to the project for the people belongs to this district.

The interior design represents a reflection of the main functions and gives the same architectural effect for the outer while respecting the heritage context.

Openings aren’t too wide and it gets to narrow to give the sense of home and containment and making light contained in the project . Its shapes inspired from the vertical openings that appears in al sultan hassan wall to cope with the context . Clerestory openings to give the sense of indirect broken light .

The main dominant three masses gives the project’s strength and identity as it act as the three main themes for the project which is production, art & creation .