MOTORCITY

Motorcity’s architectural design is defined by its compact urban footprint, strategically designed to maximize spatial efficiency while fostering a controlled microclimate. Each structure addresses a specific programmatic function and is shaped by a distinct volumetric character. Yet their spatial adjacency enables shared infrastructure like parkings, circulation zones and communal amenities, ensuring optimal land use and collective sustainability.

This proximity creates shaded open spaces that serve as climatic and social hubs. Subtle modulations in topography along building perimeters generate architectural canopies, creating protected courtyards and framing fluid thresholds between inside and out. Generous glazed openings animate these edges, sustaining a dialogue of light, air, and view between architecture and landscape.

The roofscape of Motorcity emerges as a performative topography, layered with native sands, coarse stone and xerophytic vegetation. This materially expressive skin not only reconciles the built form with its desert context but performs thermally, acting as a passive insulator to reduce internal heat gain and enhance energy performance.

The façades, designed in white-pigmented structural concrete, heighten solar reflectivity while providing thermal mass. Their pale tonality counterpoints the arid environment, amplifying the oasis effect and reinforcing the visual identity of the project.

At the urban scale, a dual-access ring road underpins Motorcity’s masterplan. A newly introduced northern axis complements the primary arterial route, enabling fluid navigation across all development phases. This network of roads keeps things running smoothly and creates a new space for people to walk and enjoy.

Parking is strategically located beneath major public plazas, protected within shaded areas and distributed across one or two subterranean levels, depending on the needs of each development phase. These voids serve dual functions, facilitating seamless vehicular flow while passively moderating adjacent thermal environments through nocturnal air capture.

A sequence of thematic gardens unfolds between built volumes; each a fragment of ecology embedded in architecture. A children’s aquatic playground flanks the hotel and an olive grove embraces the administration building. These green areas not only diversify the program but serve as climatic agents, absorbing heat, enhancing biodiversity and amplifying the project’s self-sufficiency.

An intricate web of ramps and staircases choreographs movement through these spaces, creating an intuitive topography of passage and pause, where vegetation, architecture and terrain converge in experiential harmony.

The archaeological remnants discovered on-site are treated not as constraints but as narrative anchors. Preserved in situ, these fragments of history become part of the lived landscape like threads of memory embedded in the present.

Winding pathways, sculpted from the same earth they traverse, connect these historical remains with the built environment, erasing the hard line between man-made and natural. These covered pathways embody Motorcity’s central ambition: an architecture that does not isolate but integrates; that does not impose, but listens.