SOS5 at AbuDhabi University

Students of SOS5 team join 3 day workshop with students of Abu Dhabi University.

From 28th april to 1st may, Abu Dhabi.

In order to understand the contest of Mina Zayed port, Abu Dhabi. SOS5 team join 3 day workshop to local students, sharing experience and competence.

The year 1972 saw the inauguration of Zayed Por. Serving as the main port in the capital of Abu Dhabi for over 40 years, Zayed Port has the distinction of being one of the regional pioneers in the maritime industry. Located on the northeast tip of the emirate and spread over a 5.3 m2 area, it is one of the biggest commercial ports in the

capital with the ability to handle up to 10 oceangoing vessels at any one time. With 21 berths, a total berth length of 4,375 m, the city-based port accommodates warehousing and cold storage facilities covering more than 143,000 m2.

Since moving all container traffic and cargos to Khalifa Port, the Zayed Port has expanded its status as a premier

regional hub to encompass cruise tourism, as well as general and bulk cargo services with its access to multimodal land, sea and air transport network. Zayed Port consists of two deep basins for general cargo vessels and cruise liners and a smaller basin for vessels such as tugs, barges and service crafts. The port also enjoys ease of access, being just five minutes away from the highway and in the centre of Abu Dhabi city.

As part of the comprehensive development plans to establish Abu Dhabi as a world-class cruise destination, in December 2015, Zayed Port launched the permanent Abu Dhabi Cruise Terminal, which addresses the increasing demand for cruise tourism to the country. The terminal allows three cruise ships to berth at any one time and the prime location gives visitors easy access to a wide range of attractions such as the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum, Ferrari World, Yas Island and other leisure attractions, hotels and resorts in the Emirate. The focus has paid off; the number of tourists visiting the capital has significantly risen since circa 2006 when the first cruise liner called at the port. Today, Zayed Port welcomes high profile cruise ships from Asia, Europe and America, with 100,000s of tourists visiting Abu Dhabi each season.

Mina Zayed Port is gaining popularity destination for cruising seasonal tourists for its cruise liner but this port morphology still mantains its genaral main cargo charateristic.

100,000 tourists, disembarking each year, that find a context that is clearly different from the rest of the city. In fact, industrial warehouses in the process of demolition are still maintained even if there is a strong anthropic pressure. The idea is to resume this area of strong touristic and commercial value, in direct relation to the waterfront, and to extend the urban fabric on the area, as can also be seen from various masterplan scenarios planned for the future, completely different from what the area currently looks like.

Links to the project: Retrofit Strategies for Climate Change

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