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The Qatar Foundation Headquarters Expansion aimed to extend the original building by architect Rem Koolhaas to support QF’s growth. Laceco’s design won the international competition. The objectives were to create an iconic building reflecting QF’s brand and design excellence, expand the headquarters for a growing workforce, and curate a workspace that embodies QF’s culture and values.
Programming Studies
Master Planning
Interior Design
Landscape Design
Infrastructure Design(Pre-Concept To Concept Design)
Laceco responded to the above objectives by:
Designing a consistent urban framework that nevertheless provided a diversity in the individual architectural character of buildings.
Curating a seamless pedestrian experience in a site that had a challenging topography and was exposed to dominant winds.
Anchoring the site along three platforms linked to each other by a continuous game of terraces, stairs, suspended bridges and esplanades that gently slope down the length of the development.
Conducting value engineering and cost optimization studies to preserve economic viability of the development.
Laceco responded to these objectives by designing a project that complements the existing design without competing with it, creating an architecture that projects unity and blurs the lines between the original headquarter and its extension; by integrating sustainability features inspired from Qatar‚ Islamic heritage, the HVAC load and recycle water for cleaning were reduced, and by programming flexible spaces that can be simultaneously used by QF employees for working individually, collaborating as a team, or holding social and professional gatherings.
Laceco also conducted value engineering exercises to optimize construction cost.
