Samarec recreational center

This complex was designed as a recreational centre for use by the employees of the Samarec refinery in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia. The project transformed a stretch of flat desert lapped by the sea into a tropical beach with white sand, with an artificial island being created across from it to form a lagoon protected against the waves of the open seaA chain of dunes surmounted by palm groves separates the beaches from the desert behindA Mediterranean village with narrow, tortuous alleyways, like the villages on Greek islandsplays host to shops, restaurants and meeting places in the squares and on the verandas of buildings. Throughprocess of deconstruction of the volumes and architectural markers, it takes on the appearance of a magical, dreamlike village.

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RABIGH, KSA

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1993

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