Jean nouvel's burj doha is firmly rooted in the gulf city skyline with a delicate, lace-like layered facade that recalls shanasheel screens common in the area, albeit on a grand scale.
The 761 foot tall building is a massive, rounded cylindrical composition of the carved lattice work that acts as a smart shading screen in the hot desert climate of qatar's largest city.The design in the first to successfully employ dia-grid reinforced concrete over the entirety of the building skin, thereby creating a sunscreening envelope on a massive scale that appropriates the moucharabiah and butterfly-shaped linear patterns to fracture light within every interior volume. vast green space and a vertical garden are the first of its kind in the state of qatar.
The tower, located on corniche road in the city center overlooks the waters of the gulf-- an expanse of blue that can be seen through the filleted circumference of a dome that seamlessly caps the rounded skyscraper. additionally topped by a lightning conductor at a level of 231.5 meters above ground, the elaborate cousin of the famed burj khalifa has a total built up area of approximately 110,000 square meters.