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Dubai Smiles is a project that seeks to address the climatic challenges and lack of shaded gathering and rest areas for residents in the Bur Dubai district of Dubai.
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Bur Dubai is a predominantly lower-income Southeast Asian immigrant enclave with a population consisting of single adults and young families. Currently, public amenities in Bur Dubai are paltry to nonexistent, with no public parks, recreational, or shaded areas within a one kilometer radius of the neighborhood.
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Residents and workers escaping the afternoon sun resort to lying on the streets, resting under makeshift tents, or napping under various items of merchandise.
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The lack of social infrastructure continues in Bur Dubai after working hours with no public places to gather, relax, or play. Dubai Smiles tackles this lack of social infrastructure with a public recreational area featuring a giant swing set underneath a dynamic billowing canopy.
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Accessible to everybody, the pleasures of avoiding the heat while swinging on a simple swing transcends ethnicity, class, and age. This simple design utilizes only two main materials – metal frames and fabric. Shorter lengths of fabric are draped over metal frames to create shaded canopies.
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Longer lengths of fabric are draped to create a sea of swings, hammocks and chairs. The resulting combination of swings/hammocks under a well shaded canopy is a design that needs no instructions to use.
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Amidst the bustle of Dubai, visitors can also move deeper into the pavilion to a peaceful oasis where noises are reduced and a moment of tranquility is found through layers of fabric.
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Dubai Smiles provides for a new model for collective gathering and encourages visitors to form their own spaces, temporarily free from the stresses of urban living and the intense desert sun.
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We believe it can be a new model for collective gathering in Dubai and serve as an unprecedented neighborhood amenity for everyone in Bur Dubai. Dubai Smiles is a design for gathering, respite, and joy. Source by pinkcloud.dk.
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- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Architect: pinkcloud.dk
- Project Team: Katayoun A. Lazar, Leon Lai, Eric Tan
- Status: represented Dubai in the 2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism
- Year: 2017
- Images: Courtesy of pinkcloud.dk
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