The SPACE Dubai College, UAE Sports & Performing Arts Centre, GAJ Architecture Images
The SPACE at Dubai College
15 Dec 2020
The SPACE, Dubai College Building
Architects: Godwin Austen Johnson – GAJ
Location: Dubai, UAE
Continuing a relationship which spans 40 years Godwin Austen Johnson (GAJ) has recently completed the new Sports & Performing Arts Centre of Excellence (The SPACE) for the Dubai College.

The all new The SPACE is the most ambitious project of the planned upgrade of the school to date. It is located on a condensed part of the site at the back of the campus and required the demolition of the existing swimming pool and sports hall to free up valuable land for the new 5,500sqm development.

From the outset the 900sqm multi-purpose gym with indoor running track was designed to be a central hub within the SPACE and it occupies most of the ground floor.
It is supplemented by a number of flexible student spaces to foster a relationship between the physical movement and the science behind it allowing teachers to combine the practical with the theory.

Also on the ground floor is a new swimming facility which can be directly accessed from the outside without the need to go through the sports hall. It includes a 300 seat spectator viewing area, electronic touch timing system making it ideal for galas and other water sports events.

On the first floor the 1,100sqm sports hall is designed for two basketball and two netball courts with retractable ble...