Qatar Civil Aviation Headquarters

with Grimshaw Architects

Enclosure technical package lead 2013-2014

Qatar Civil Aviation Authority (QCAA) Headquarters was designed as the gateway to New Doha International Airport City.  The office building comprises a sequence of discrete office ‘petals’ clustered around a common 5 story conical glass atrium, making for a highly efficient organizational arrangement. The QCAA headquarters has a high performance exterior envelope customized to the building’s unique shape, location, solar orientation and Qatar’s climate. Filtered daylight will suffuse the building whilst direct solar penetration is controlled by exterior operable shades and the placement of insulating wall panels and limited areas of glass. The building’s skin features prefabricated stone and glass unitized curtain wall paneling and the two directional curved roof is finished in a high-albedo ceramic tile rainscreen to protect from the intense overhead sun.