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BAHRAIN TRADE UNION

HEADQUARTER

A MESSAGE .. A MISSION .. AND A VISION ..
ARCHITECTURE
I WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROPOSING AN ALTERNATIVE SHAPE OUR
SOLUTIONS TO THE EXISTING PLANS AND MODEL THE LIVES
BUILDING BASED ON THEM

With the current situ- necessary elements and FOR MORE DETAILS
ation, the trade union try to conceal them. The ABOUT THE PROJECTS
can be found only in mechanical and all of PLEASE REFER TO THE
AUTHOR
some apartments/flats the services were hid-
in ADLIYA KINGDOM den inside the building
OF BAHRAIN. Therefore enclosure to provide a
the need for a separate fully pure and function
head-quarter building space for such matter.
was a need, especially The building structure
with the growth of such was again wrapped in
a movement. The move- aluminum composite
ment began as small material to provide the
meetings to discuss the neat high-end facade.
future needs all the way The internal space was
to founding an actual arranged in an open
union which is support- office type to give free-
ed by the king himself. dom of spaces inside
Their mission and vision and to allow as much as
were oriented towards daylight as possible. To
the worker’s needs and maintain the proportion
always looking to the of the building and due
future. For that reason, to the limitation of the
they wanted a modern net area, the parking
style building which can layout was a typical scis-
reflect their strong mes- sor type with a normal
sage itself. To convey the gate not to highlight it.
client idea, the building
is designed in a way that
it has been ‘stripped’
away from all of the un-