Who created the project "Octo Maidan"?

This project was created by Julien Drugeon on uni.xyz, a platform for design professionals to showcase their work.

What type of design project is "Octo Maidan"?

"Octo Maidan" is a Portable Shelter, Facilities, Individualized Unit Modules, Religious Building, Extreme Architecture, Urban Planning, Low Cost Design project showcased on uni.xyz.

Where is the project "Octo Maidan" located?

This project is located in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

Octo Maidan

rethinking Mina Tents city allowing a more sustainable accommodation scheme

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Mohamed Al Assam

Juror

4y ago edited

Founder and Executive Chairman, Dewan Architects + Engineers, Dubai, UAE

The proposal demonstrates good research and references of the ceremonies of Hajj journey. We are not sure about the design outcome and the approach of stacking multi-storey units, both for the accommodation and service units. Simply because of the logistics and massive crowd management and hygiene, which will be a great challenge, specially for the vertical circulation. As for the space programming, the multi-storey units appears overloaded, and distribution of functions like, luggage and food storage, preying areas ..etc, needs to be elaborated. More attention needs to be taken to the in-between outdoor and public areas.

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