CREEK PLAY

Colorful Watertown is a project to enhance the public realm of Dubai Creek Harbour, for its upcoming opening.

The latest ambitious project from Emaar Properties is pedestrian friendly, with humanly scaled streets, spaces for leisure and fun, active public spaces, walkable and discoverable. A new hotspot in the city of Dubai.

Due to the upcoming release of this world class development, 100 Architects was commissioned to design an outdoor project to enhance the public realm experience of residents and visitors from the Creek Island.

A stimulating permanent intervention for entertainment, developed in a linear way along 350 meters of waterfront promenade at the Creek Island’s Marina.

Conceptually conceived as a playful village, the proposal is manifested as an eye-catching playscape for the joy of kids and adults alike, adding a pinch of color and playfulness along the meandering promenade.

These 7 different stations create a journey of fun, a circuit of eventful surprises along the promenade, offering an alternative playful experience to the mesmerizing creek and Dubai skyline views.

The 7 nodes have a symbolic meaning related to the federation of the 7 emirates as the United Arab Emirates.

Hence while each node is rendered as a little village by itself and can be understood as an independent entity, all of them are part of a common project, linked to each other.

The 7 focal nodes of activity are connected to each other through a series of colorful walls and floor graphics inspired by Dubai’s vernacular arabesque shapes, as the ones used in traditional doors, windows and other elements of vernacular architecture.

Each node is composed by a conglomeration of capsules forming a stimulating village of fun, in which each capsule offers a different instant function,

such as sitting, swinging, sliding, climbing, laying down, playing, hanging, etc…, all of them encouraging the occurrence of social interactions.

While some of the capsules are mostly focused on kids, some others are thought to be also used by adults.

This familiar approach of combining spaces for kids and adults has resulted in a perfect public space for visitors and residents of all ages.

While some of the capsules are mostly focused on kids, some others are thought to be also used by adults.

Each node is composed by a conglomeration of capsules forming a stimulating village of fun, in which each capsule offers a different instant function.

the nodes offer Instant functions such as sitting, swinging, sliding, climbing, laying down, playing, hanging, etc…, all of them encouraging the occurrence of social interactions.

The 7 focal nodes of activity are connected to each other through a series of colorful walls and floor graphics inspired by Dubai’s vernacular arabesque shapes, as the ones used in traditional doors, windows and other elements of vernacular architecture.

Colorful Watertown is a project to enhance the public realm of Dubai Creek Harbour, for its upcoming opening.

The latest ambitious project from Emaar Properties is pedestrian friendly, with humanly scaled streets, spaces for leisure and fun, active public spaces, walkable and discoverable. A new hotspot in the city of Dubai.

Due to the upcoming release of this world class development, 100 Architects was commissioned to design an outdoor project to enhance the public realm experience of residents and visitors from the Creek Island.

A stimulating permanent intervention for entertainment, developed in a linear way along 350 meters of waterfront promenade at the Creek Island’s Marina.

Conceptually conceived as a playful village, the proposal is manifested as an eye-catching playscape for the joy of kids and adults alike, adding a pinch of color and playfulness along the meandering promenade.

These 7 different stations create a journey of fun, a circuit of eventful surprises along the promenade, offering an alternative playful experience to the mesmerizing creek and Dubai skyline views.

The 7 nodes have a symbolic meaning related to the federation of the 7 emirates as the United Arab Emirates.

Hence while each node is rendered as a little village by itself and can be understood as an independent entity, all of them are part of a common project, linked to each other.

The 7 focal nodes of activity are connected to each other through a series of colorful walls and floor graphics inspired by Dubai’s vernacular arabesque shapes, as the ones used in traditional doors, windows and other elements of vernacular architecture.

Each node is composed by a conglomeration of capsules forming a stimulating village of fun, in which each capsule offers a different instant function,

such as sitting, swinging, sliding, climbing, laying down, playing, hanging, etc…, all of them encouraging the occurrence of social interactions.

While some of the capsules are mostly focused on kids, some others are thought to be also used by adults.

Hence while each node is rendered as a little village by itself and can be understood as an independent entity, all of them are part of a common project, linked to each other.

The 7 nodes have a symbolic meaning related to the federation of the 7 emirates as the United Arab Emirates.

These 7 different stations create a journey of fun, a circuit of eventful surprises along the promenade, offering an alternative playful experience to the mesmerizing creek and Dubai skyline views.

Conceptually conceived as a playful village, the proposal is manifested as an eye-catching playscape for the joy of kids and adults alike, adding a pinch of color and playfulness along the meandering promenade.

Elevation of one of the action nodes. The node is composed of 8 Inhabitable capsules interconnected among them.

A stimulating permanent intervention for entertainment, developed in a linear way along 350 meters of waterfront promenade at the Creek Island’s Marina.