TERRACE TOWERS
Mixed Use I Commercial + Residential
NAGA Architects, Planners, Designers
> 241,000 sq.ft
> 2013
> Designer
PROGRAM
The concept of the Terrace Towers is aligned with the vision of the project brief and shaped by two key factors: views and efficiency. Therefore, the maximum number of apartments have views toward the nearby Burj Khalifa and the Dancing Fountains, and the building uses a unique design of 2 L-shaped towers to take full advantage of the sights without the inefficiency of a lengthy single-loaded corridor. A single-loaded corridor would be long and inefficient. The typical resolution to this dilemma is a linear building with a double-loaded corridor - but this too results in a maximum of 70 percent of units with the desired views. So, to achieve both maximum views and efficiency, this idea - of one tower, comprised of units accessed by a single loaded corridor - was split in half. These two pieces were bent into a pair of L-shaped towers organized on a party of 3 squares deriving from an 8.4 structural grid system. The two towers were then located on the end of two squares, allowing a void in between for a courtyard, including a swimming pool, on the podium roof.
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