Green Infrastructure 2014 Group O - Case Study 2

---> back to group page working group O

please add your title here

Name	Unaizah City Centre'
Country	Saudi Arabia
City	Unaizah,Alqassim
Authors	Mugharbil,Rakan And Alsaqabi,Omar

Rationale: Why is this case interesting?

The masterplan works with the city’s existing heritage and character, taking inspiration from the surrounding plantations by including date palms throughout the plan, which according to the architects “provide the city of Unayzah with a strong identity”. The plan also keeps the existing buildings in the city center, refitting the facade of an existing mall complex with green walls and waterfalls. The new buildings will feature facades inspired by traditional architecture to sit comfortably alongside other existing buildings.

Different street widths and organically designed transitions between alleys, streets and squares create pedestrian areas with an appealing human scale, and generous amounts of date palms and urban furniture will provide the necessary sun shading.

Author's perspective

what is your professional/educational background and your relation to the site?

Landscape and/or urban context of your case

• Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics
• Illustrations: maps; sketches; short descriptive analyses

• Illustrations
• 

  Uses Zones

• 

  Circulation Pattern

• Yourimage.jpg

  your visual

• Yourimage.jpg

  your visual

Analytical drawings

• Please use analytical drawing for visualising the conflicts/potentials of your site

• Analytical Drawings
• 

  Integrate agriculture zones and parks with the cit center.

• Your drawing.jpg

  your drawing

• Your drawing.jpg

  your drawing

• Your drawing.jpg

  your drawing

Green Infrastructure benefits for this site

Look again at the multiple benefits of green infrastructure - what could be achieved in your site and which are most relevant?

Potential for multifunctionality

Green infrastructure has typically multiple functions. What could be achieved for your site in this respect?

Projective drawings

• How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)
  • you may add a short explanation here

• And how could it look like in 10-15 years?
  • you may add a short explanation here

• Projective Drawings
• Yourdrawing.jpg

  projective drawing

• Yourdrawing.jpg

  projective drawing

• Yourdrawing.jpg

  projective drawing

• Yourdrawing.jpg

  projective drawing

Summary and conclusion

• 100 words approx.

Image Gallery

Please add further images/photos here

• Image Gallery
• Yourimage.jpg

  your image text

• Yourimage.jpg

  your image text

• Yourimage.jpg

  your image text

• Yourimage.jpg

  your image text

• Yourimage.jpg

  your image text

• Yourimage.jpg

  your image text

• Yourimage.jpg

  your image text

• Yourimage.jpg

  your image text

References

• please add your references here

---

About categories: You can add more categories with this tag: "", add your categories