Bar Salaam Hotel & SPA - Rashid Taqui Architects & Engineers

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Bar Salaam Hotel, Museum and Spa

The proposed Bar Salaam Hotel and Spa development in Dubai occupies one of the most historically significant location in the city. Situated between the historical areas of the Bastakiyia and Shindagah (now fully restored), the site is a stones-throw distance to the (now restored to a museum) the house of the first ruler of Dubai, the late HH Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum.

The design brief called for the design of a new five-star hotel that must integrate into the existing urban plan and character while offering complete amenities an international five-star hotel. Furthermore, the hotel must be designed in a manner to attract tourism into the adjacent historical area and the nearby Bastakiyia district and encourage the area to be enjoyed by the public. The design should attempt at ‘bringing life into the Shindagah district’.

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CHALLENGE

The sensitive nature of the site demands an appropriately sensitive design solution, one that respects the culture, traditions and architecture of Dubai’s history. With this in mind, many limitations are apparent that will direct the design of the hotel including the spatial arrangements and the scale of the buildings.

The area where the site is located can be accessed by the car, boat ad by foot. The immediate site is accessible by foot on three sides whiles vehicular access is limited to one side only. This immediately poses limitations regarding site access by hotels guests, conference attendees and for services.

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Project Bar Salaam Hotel Resort
Client Dubai Municipality
Built-Up-Area N/a
Services Masterplanning, Architectural Design Concept, Interior Design Concept, Landscape Design Concept
Status On Hold
Budget US$110 Million

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200 Executive Rooms
50 club rooms and a dedicated Club Lounges
25 Suites
Guest facilities including a Male Majlis, Female Majlis, Business Centre, a Ladies’ Gym, Men’s Gym
F&B outlets include four Restaurants, a 24-hour Coffee Shop, a Juice Bar serviced by one central kitchen and two satellite kitchens.
Two multi-purpose Ballrooms/ Conference venues complete with MICE facilities with seating capacity of 350 and 250 each (banquet style)
A Museum
Below ground Parking for 300 cars
Back of house service areas and stores, Administration Offices and on-site Staff accommodation for 100 staff
A Day Spa with 10 Treatment Rooms for a number of therapies.

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proposal

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The competition-winning design proposal offers a five-star hotel resort development that offers all the services guests would expect in an architectural skin that blends seamlessly in these historical quarters. Extensive studies were commissioned to understand traffic flows, urban fabric, noise and character.

Consequentially, the proposed design breaks down the resort into a number of traditional courtyard styled buildings of the

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same scale as the surroundings, connected by covered walkways, and further interconnected with covered piazzas – on an underlying pattern that is ‘lifted’ from the surrounding urban flow lines. In some areas, these ‘flow lines’ are translated into wadis and falajs onto which the guest rooms open onto, while providing vistas into the resort from the surrounding. These water-ways hinge the project further into the context, as the site was once marshlands.

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The master plan weaves in and out of the surrounding, sometimes pushing the resort into the surrounding, at others, pulling the surroundings into the resort thus diffusing the boundary of the proposed development and the old. Access is allowed to and from the surroundings in key strategic locations through security controlled access point for the guest without compromising the security of the resort and its residents.

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Proposal

Consequentially, the proposed design breaks down the resort into a number of traditional courtyard styled buildings of the

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Each of the elevations of the resort address its neighbour. The Creek side allows guest to arrive via boat, the main entrance is pulled back and sheltered from the main road to allow guests some respite from the noisy and congested area and third side acts as a buffer between the proposed market and the resort; the street level houses the staff quarters while the upper floor houses guest rooms with a view of the proposed market.

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

200 Executive Rooms
50 club rooms and a dedicated Club Lounges
25 Suites
Guest facilities including a Male Majlis, Female Majlis, Business Centre, a Ladies’ Gym, Men’s Gym
F&B outlets include four Restaurants, a 24-hour Coffee Shop, a Juice Bar serviced by one central kitchen and two satellite kitchens.
Two multi-purpose Ballrooms/ Conference venues complete with MICE facilities with seating capacity of 350 and 250 each (banquet style)
A Museum
Below ground Parking for 300 cars
Back of house service areas and stores, Administration Offices and on-site Staff accommodation for 100 staff
A Day Spa with 10 Treatment Rooms for a number of therapies.