Porto Arabia, Qatar
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Project: Composite domes
Location: Porto Arabia, The Pearl, Doha, Qatar
Client: CAT International Qatar
Architect: CallisonRTKL
Engineering Consultant: Dar Alhandasah
Main Contractor: Integra Doha
Handover: 2009
Rising out of the warm waters of the Arabian Gulf, The Pearl - Qatar was conceived as MENA’s latest luxury real estate destination, purpose built on an artificial island costing $2.5 billion. As the first phase of The Pearl, Porto Arabia is designed as the ‘Riviera of the Middle East’, fusing European and Arabian style cues and featuring a waterfront boardwalk, retail, restaurants, housing and entertainment.
BFG was tasked with delivering the architect’s vision of an Arabian Riviera, by developing a huge variety of traditional domes which would help convey the project’s authentic local roots.
In all, BFG designed, engineered and installed 37 FRP composite domes across the Porto Arabia site, each of a different design, and in a dazzling variety of surface finishes. The entrance dome alone is 19 metres in diameter and topped with a distinctive copper cladding.
Fabricated by hand at BFG in single skin structural FRP segments, the domes are textured and finished to maintain their pristine appearance for decades to come, without the need for maintenance – even with harsh summer sun and coastal winds.
Location: Porto Arabia, The Pearl, Doha, Qatar
Client: CAT International Qatar
Architect: CallisonRTKL
Engineering Consultant: Dar Alhandasah
Main Contractor: Integra Doha
Handover: 2009
Rising out of the warm waters of the Arabian Gulf, The Pearl - Qatar was conceived as MENA’s latest luxury real estate destination, purpose built on an artificial island costing $2.5 billion. As the first phase of The Pearl, Porto Arabia is designed as the ‘Riviera of the Middle East’, fusing European and Arabian style cues and featuring a waterfront boardwalk, retail, restaurants, housing and entertainment.
BFG was tasked with delivering the architect’s vision of an Arabian Riviera, by developing a huge variety of traditional domes which would help convey the project’s authentic local roots.
In all, BFG designed, engineered and installed 37 FRP composite domes across the Porto Arabia site, each of a different design, and in a dazzling variety of surface finishes. The entrance dome alone is 19 metres in diameter and topped with a distinctive copper cladding.
Fabricated by hand at BFG in single skin structural FRP segments, the domes are textured and finished to maintain their pristine appearance for decades to come, without the need for maintenance – even with harsh summer sun and coastal winds.
