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Bab-Al-Sheikh | Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Bab-Al-Sheikh | Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Bab-Al-Sheikh | Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Bab-Al-Sheikh | Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Bab-Al-Sheikh | Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Bab-Al-Sheikh | Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Bab-Al-Sheikh | Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Bab-Al-Sheikh | Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Bab-Al-Sheikh | Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Bab-Al-Sheikh | Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Bab-Al-Sheikh | Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Bab-Al-Sheikh | Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Bab-Al-Sheikh | Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
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Year: 1987
Location: Baghdad, Iraq
Client: Government of Iraq
Total area: 50,000 (sqm)

In 1982 the Government of Iraq to RBTA commissioned the development of a district of Baghdad. The site of approximately 2.3 hectares lies 100 meters north from the Al-Gaylani mosque, and includes a group of old houses which are to be preserved. This ambitious urban renewal included the construction of over 150 single-family homes with a maximum height of three floors.

RBTA’s scheme was based on a rationalized rectilinear layout which could easily be inserted into the existing fabric, with its markedly traditional character. There was a certain geometrical pattern to the area clearly manifested in the serial view of solids...

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Bab-Al-Sheikh

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