21/05/2026
The Shuaibah Visitor Center was designed as a sequence of understanding.
Visitors move through compressed passages into open exhibition volumes, ascending through towers calibrated toward specific views of the desalination plant below — the sea at one point, the processing infrastructure at another, the distribution networks beyond.
The building turns observation into pedagogy.
Its environmental systems follow the same logic.
Sea breezes from the Red Sea shaped the orientation strategy before mechanical systems were introduced. Shading geometries derive from ripple formations in moving water. Greywater systems sustain the landscape through cycles of reuse embedded into the architecture itself.
The project proposes a different relationship between architecture and infrastructure: not concealment, but legibility.