GEMS World School

Design Patterns

Traditional Classroom:

Welcoming Entry: The grand approach to the school with fully sheltered drop off point for the guests is just the one of the many welcoming factors to this premium standard school. The internal winter/tropical garden serves as the beautiful back drop to the school lobby as one of the oases nestled within this dune-scape.

Art, Music, Performance: The large auditorium with 660 seating capacity is equipped with a performing stage and support spaces which are programmatically linked to the performing art centre - hence creating a sustainable arts hub for students and public.

Physical Fitness: The school has a complex dedicated for sports facilities for the students and the public to use at specific times of the day. These facilities range from indoor sports hall, swimming pools to outdoor hard courts and an international size track and field.

Interior and Exterior Vistas: The building foot print takes a unique shape which allows multiple frontages to the public. Hence, all the centres of learning provide extensive access for the students to visually connect with the internal courtyard - the plaza and the external surrounding urban landscape outside the school. These multiple vistas allow students to easily orientate themselves with the campus facilities and current activities.

Cave Space: Multiple niches that are intertwined with the circulation as a result of the meandering concept of its spatial strategy create opportunity for intimate learning to communal size gathering to occur. Hence, the journey within this 'learning Heaven' is like a voyage of discovery.

Local Signature: Inspired by the poetic undulations of the sand dunes in the Middle East, the building draws its presence from its architectural display of the flowing form on its roof edge hence softening the harsh environment of urban landscape.