Once the idea of the resort was to provide a momentary escape from everyday hardships; an earthly preview of paradise for temporary consumption...but now in the UAE, where the resort has become the ubiquitous condition, everywhere and ever present, it is the resort itself that is beginning to inspire escape.
The mountain resort of Ras Al Kaimah present a spectacular natural setting. To enter the rugged landscape of these mountains still feels like breaking new ground.
Rather than domesticating these baren slopes into the standard environment of the traditional resort, this project aims to create a resort that exploits their true natural conditions.
The proposed resort consists of a number of different individual parts, linked like a string of pearls by the new Jebel al Jais road. Each part offers its own way of preserving the integrity of the landscape.
The modern villa - The incorporation of the garden within the walls of the villa treated like a standard part of the program just like the living room, the dining room, the kitchen etc...eliminates the need for domestication of the land around the villa. Instead the villas engage with the surroundings by capitalizing on the spectacular view.
The domino units - Like a Maya Lin artwork, the square plans of the domnino units form their own pixilated mountain, a geometric variation on the natural contours of the terrain. Although the units are consolidated, they are terraced so that each unit has an uninterrupted view onto the landscape and feels like a stand alone dwelling. This area of the resort can function as a series of independent villas as well as a collective resort.
The urban cluster - A cluster of square blocks with narrow streets creates the illusion of the density of an old town centre. Through the variations in height, in response to the natural terrain, the higher leveles of each block acquire the independence and views of stand alone towers. Interior conncections between the blocks can be made at various levels.
The pentagon - Seemingly an enclosed courtyard building, the Pentagon has ten facades enjoying unencumbered views to the landscape. Through its inventive sectional relationship - lifting out of the ground - the interior of the Pentagon is neither too isolated from the surrounding desert mountains nor too exposed to it creating a tempered environment that is at once expansive and intimate.
The Bridge - creates a shortcut between two points of identical height; its geometry independent from yet working with the landscape is democratically distributing views over its individual units.
http://www.oma.eu/index.php?option=com_projects&view=project&id=445&Itemid=10
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