In Dubai there is little difference between holiday accommodation and housing. Architectural programs are becoming fused and undifferentiated. The morphology of the landscape and seascape is becoming fabricated to the point that it may soon be difficult to differentiate between the natural and the constructed. Dubai’s natural beachfront is 45km long. Artificial islands will add another 1,500km of beachfront, turning the coastline and the city into an inexhaustible holiday resort. The trajectory of the development of Dubai is reflected in its population, which has grown fifteen-fold since 1969: from 60,000 then to well over 1.3 million today. It is projected that, by 2010, Dubai’s tourist trade will accommodate around 15 million tourists per annum, serviced by more than 400 hotels.
There is a new type of 21st century urbanism emerging. It is about algorithms, the beach, as clusters, with some density, as districts, with facades, like objects, a variety of rooftops, with routes, streets and unique towers.
Images above: as Algorithms
Images above: the Beach
Images above: as Clusters
Images above: as Density
Images above: as Districts
Images above: as Facades
Images above: as Islands
Images above: as Objects
Images above: as Rooftops
Images above: as Routes
Images above: as Streets
Images above: as Towers
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