Serie Architects' understated Jameel Arts Centre is "very un-Dubai"
Serie Architects has unveiled a low-lying design for the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai, which does not "rely on exuberance to make a statement".
Made up of two clusters of white aluminium boxes and located on a small manmade island at the tip of Jaddaf Waterfront on the Dubai Creek, the Jameel Arts Centre is designed to be deliberately understated and "not very Dubai".
Photo is by Simon Whittle
The building is the centre piece of a wider mixed-use development owned by global investment company Dubai Holding and is Serie Architects' first built project in the Middle East. It spans 10,000 square metres and is one of the first independent not-for-profit contemporary arts institutions in the city.
"Everybody says that this arts centre is very 'un-Dubai'," said Lee. "It's precisely so as, in a sense, we didn't want it to be very 'Dubai'. It's a very understated building because we wanted it to be almost like a backdrop for the art."
"It doesn't rely on exuberance to make a statement," he continues. "Instead there is a great commitment to investing in the local culture and community. It is using culture as a transformative power in a city like Dubai."
Surrounded by water, the centre's layout is based on local Sha'abi houses which were built in the Gulf in the 1970s and 1980s.
Built mostly in concrete, the Sha'abi houses were single-storey homes composed of a series of rooms overlooking communal square courtyards desig...
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