Dubai, United Arab Emirates

							  Dubai Autodrome


Dubai, United Arab Emirates




                              Architect:           HOK Sport Architecture / Barrow, Lowe, Krasinski, Dutta

                              Client:              Dubai Autodrome

                              Built Area:          929’000 m²

                              Cost:                US$ 100’000’000


                              Dubai Autodrome accommodates all types of motor sports and also provides a setting for
                              corporate events and concerts for up to 30,000 people. Its architectural style draws from
                              concepts central to motor racing. Chief among these is the idea of dynamic balance - the
                              fine line between speed and traction - as expressed by the cantilevers and inclined glazing
                              and steel panels of the signature marketing and management building. The project’s social
                              achievement is the Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Racing Drivers Academy, which
                              ‘aims to select and train young UAE drivers and give them the ability to race and compete
                              at the highest international level’.
        3236.UAE
     2007 Award Cycle
Dubai Autodrome
                                                  Dubai Autodrome, UAE
Emirates Road                                     The architectural style of this complex and its signature marketing and management building draw from concepts
Dubai, United Arab Emirates                       central to motor sports and racing. Chief among these is the idea of dynamic balance – that fine line between speed
                                                  and traction, between motion and control.
Architects      HOK Sport Architecture /
                Barrow, Lowe, Krasinski, Dutta
                London, United Kingdom
Clients         Dubai Autodrome
                Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Commission      2002
Design          2003 - 2004
Construction    2003 - 2004
Occupancy       2004
Site            809’374 m2
Ground Floor    929’000 m2
Total Floor     929’000 m2
Costs           US$ 100’000’000
Programme       Dubai Autodrome
                accommodates all types of
                motor sports and also provides
                a setting for corporate events
                and concerts for up to 30,000
                people. Its architectural style
                draws from concepts central
                to motor racing. Chief among
                these is the idea of dynamic
                balance - the fine line between
                speed and traction - as
                expressed by the cantilevers
                and inclined glazing and
                steel panels of the signature
                marketing and management
                building. The project’s social
                achievement is the Sheikh
                Hamdan bin Mohammed
                Racing Drivers Academy,
                which ‘aims to select and
                train young UAE drivers and
                give them the ability to race
                and compete at the highest
                international level’.




Building Type                               12
2007 Award Cycle                      3236.UAE    |1|   Management Building
Dynamic balance is achieved on the track when         on a fast-track basis, it was the first facility to   and guests can see almost every turn of the
a driver balances the centrifugal force of corners    be built in the $95 million complex, followed         racetrack below and survey the surrounding
and pushes the limits of possibility. The marketing   immediately by the racetrack and grandstand.          development.
and management building captures that feeling
with a structure that appears active, figuratively    The structural glass preserves the building’s         Sited in the open desert, every aspect of the building
“leaning into the turns.”                             transparency and takes full advantage of              must respond to the sun. The exterior’s transparency
                                                      its setting atop the site’s highest elevation.        is tempered by large aluminum cantilevers, and the
The client envisioned a futuristic complex,           Therefore, walls and partitions are kept to           building is oriented at 50 degrees east of north so
encompassing racing, recreation, retail and           a minimum, even on the lower levels of the            that the building’s floor plates shade each other
residential uses. The marketing and management        building. The building’s top floor includes some      in the intense afternoon sun. The very envelope of
building would serve as the development’s             conference rooms and enclosed offices, but is         the building form shelters the entry plaza below
centerpiece with its streamlined profile modeled      primarily comprised of the luxurious viewing          and conceals an area of tranquility in the heart of
after the form of a racecar engine. Completed         gallery. From this gallery, prospective buyers        an energetic and exciting development.
                                                                                                                                                                     |2|   Masterplan of the track




                                                                                                            |3|   Aerial view of the track                           |4|   Race control




|5|   Grandstand                                                                                            |6|   The track
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