Site Analysis 3

Here I took a closer look at the site, mapping out exactly where the existing structures are as well as the semi-effaced roads. Judging by historical aerial photography, the roads are left to the devices of the sand, reappearing and disappearing between each year's shots. 'Permanent' roads are marked in a heavier gray than off-road paths. While it is difficult to tell, it seems as though most buildings are occupied as the makeshift paths leading to them remain intact year after year. There is one exception, marked in a lighter gray on the map below.

Based on my map, I again adjusted the effective build area, coming to a smaller total of 1.375 million sq. ft., making this area slightly smaller than Souq Waqif. I also designated a potential mosque site in green, placing it along the road and near to the existing upper-class housing to attempt to draw laborers, who live nearby, as well as upper-class Dohans to the site.

Site Analysis 2

This a diagram of the forces at work on the site at the immediate contextual scale as well as small city-scale diagram depicting its relationship to two of the major public/commercial sites in the city.

In the larger diagram, the site is depicted in orange, the al-Saad parking lots in gray (where the laborers play cricket every Friday), al-Saad stadium itself in green, perimeter walls of immediately adjacent ex-pat/upper class housing complexes in teal, and the traffic on al-Waab Street in purple. Finally, the presumed major entry point to the site for a walking laborer is shown with the dashed orange arrow.

In the bottom corner is a small diagram delineating the spatial relationship of the site to Villagio mall to the southwest and Souq Waqif to the northeast. The site is in the approximate middle of the path between the two.

Site Analysis 1

A comparison of the scale of my selected site and the other two Dohan souqs I examined, Souqs Waqif and Najada. Then, taking into account the existing buildings and throughways that existed up until a couple of years ago, I reduced that footprint to understand what constitutes the effective potential building area.

Annotated Bibliography

This has been sitting around for a while, but wasn't posted previously, so here it is. It's a little out of date by now, though.

Precedent #3: Mosque/Market Typology

While I was told that there existed examples of mosques and markets quite literally on top of one another, I could not find examples that closely integrated. However, below are two prominent examples of mosque/market combinations that are much more directly juxtaposed than Souq Najada. This precedent is simply to make the argument for the possibility of a closer integration of the souq and the mosque in this project as it moves forward.