As a continuation to the chronicles of the Islamic arts, where the vertical solidifies and innovates the evolution of arches in the Islamic architecture, while the horizontal reinvents the significance of paradise and its expression in history through the centralized order of the Islamic garden metaphorized often in the intricate geometrical patterns of the Islamic carpet.
Located in the Heritage district of the UAE; Sharjah, the Museum is composed of two separate forms connected by a circular central open ground. The site boundary is conceptualized into the basic pattern of the Islamic carpet, taking in the borders and creating sub-structural forms that each rise higher than the other creating an arena-like exterior exhibition space thereby inverting the internal/external spatial relationship of the colosseum. The proposed design is tied to the passing of time and history, where day presents us with an opaque identity, and night reveals the depths of the Islamic history and the backbone of its architecture.
