{"id":4187,"date":"2010-04-19T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2010-04-19T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T07:12:00","slug":"context-sensitive-design-in-the-middle-east-and-the-arab-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/context-sensitive-design-in-the-middle-east-and-the-arab-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Context-sensitive design in the Middle East and the Arab countries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Should more develoments in the Middle East look like this?<\/p><\/div>\n

HOW<\/em> to produce context-sensitive design is a very considerable problem – and the Madinat Jumeriah Hotel in Dubai is a case in point:
\n 1. the character of the design is unmistakably West Asian (though more Persian than Arabian)
\n 2. the design style is popular with both Arab and European visitors
\n 3. I would rather stay in this hotel than in an Anywhere Style modern block
\n 4. I guess the idea of building in this style would be condemned in most of the world’s architecture schools, by most of the world’s architects and by most of the world’s architectural critics
\n 5. wind-towers (badgirs) were a brilliant Persian contribution to the art of air conditioning, but the badgirs in the photographs are fakes, probably used for mechanical plant or as storage space for crates of beeri
\n 6. it is completely non-traditional to surround Arab palaces with water – and the Madinat Jumeriah Hotel does not exemplify a sustainable approach to hydrological design
\n 7. the planting design style in the hotel gardens is more authentic than in the great majority of surviving Islamic gardens, though it is quite a way from the tradition of uderplanted palm orchards<\/p>\n


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So is the Madinat Jumeriah Hotel in Dubai an example to follow or an example to avoid? (10 re architectural design? (2) re landscape and garden design? (3) re use of materials and detailed design?<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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See note: How should a design project relate to its context?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HOW to produce context-sensitive design is a very considerable problem – and the Madinat Jumeriah Hotel in Dubai is a case in point: 1. the character of the design is unmistakably West Asian (though more Persian than Arabian) 2. the design style is popular with both Arab and European visitors 3. I would rather stay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}