We were tasked by QVDC with creating Hotel Park - a memorable landscape led public destination at the heart of Doha's West Bay area. Hotel Park is Doha’s first landscaped public park and part of a wider public realm network linking the area directly to the Corniche seafront promenade.
Our landscape architecture team’s role in defining the park experience was at the centre of this multidisciplinary project. It was critical that we understood the complexity of the building structure, levels, void formers, drainage requirements and below ground infrastructure – and how it related to the surface landscape design.
The park’s water features and planted sculptural landforms achieve an appealing design in the heat of Qatar. The clusters and avenues of trees and palms create shade and a micro-climate that can be up to 10 degrees cooler than areas without trees, demonstrating the role that green infrastructure can play in improing the liveability of a city.
A series of paths and boulevards also intersect throughout the landscape, defining the park’s feature garden areas, open spaces and leisure zones, each with individual character and lighting schemes. Since its completion, Hotel Park has provided Doha’s people with a green urban destination to gather within, picnic, exercise and relax.