Gateway to Isa Town

Isa Town, Bahrain

The aim of the project was to create a civic monument in the form of a gateway for the recently constructed Isa Town development. The design of the gateway is inspired by gateways of the Arab-Islamic tradition. The gateway is composed of five arched galleries; two identical lateral ones for pedestrian circulation, and two larger central ones for vehicular circluation, the latter connected by a higher, but narrower central arcade. The abstraction of the traditionally vaulted gate is expressed by a series of parallel arched fins which through their rhytmic repetition create the volumes of the gateway.

Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture