Bar Salaam Dubai Creek Hotel & Spa
Bar Salaam Dubai Creek Hotel & Spa
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
LOCATION
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Project Facts
Project Bar Salaam Hotel ResortÂ
Client Dubai MunicipalityÂ
Built-Up-Area N/aÂ
Services Master Planning, Architectural Design Concept, Interior Design Concept, Landscape Design ConceptÂ
Status PausedÂ
Budget US$110 Million
Project Features
Guest Rooms 200 Executive Rooms, 50 club rooms with a dedicated Club Lounge and 25 Family Suites.
Hotel Male Majlis, Female Majlis, Museum, Business Centre, separate Ladies’ Gym, and a Men’s Gym, Back of House areas including Service areas and stores and Administration Offices.
Dining 4 Restaurants, a 24-hour Coffee Shop, a Juice Bar serviced by one central kitchen and two satellite kitchens.
Conference 2 Multi-purpose Ballrooms/ Conference venues complete with MICE facilities with seating capacity of 350 and 250 each (banquet style).
Day Spa with 10 Single Treatment Rooms for a number of therapies.
Parking Below ground Parking for 300 cars.
Staff Accommodation On-site Staff accommodation for 100 staff.
The proposed Bar Salaam Dubai Creek Hotel & Spa development in Dubai occupies one of the most historically significant location in the city. Situated between the historical areas of the Bastakiya and Shindagha (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 Bastakiya district and encourage the area to be enjoyed by the public. The design should attempt at ‘bringing life into the Shindagha district’.
CHALLENGE
proposal
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 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.
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.
proposal
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 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.
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. Meanwhile. 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.
