Kadhimiya

Urban plan and new institutional buildings for the Holy City of Kadhimiya, Iraq.

2009

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Masterplan and institutional buildings design for Al Kadhimiya. The first in a series of works in Iraq from 2008 to 2013.

The scheme proposes a long list of architectural, infrastructure and landscape interventions, and has now been adopted. Some are large, involving a new rail station, theological college, a large new mosque, and dining hall for 10,000 people. However others are small at the level of the courtyard, house and pocket-park.

One urban element, sometimes a wall, sometimes a complex building, encircles and filters movement to the shrine. The scheme carefully protects and supports the existing ancient medina.