KAPSARCThe King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center

About KAPSARC• The King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center

(KAPSARC) is an independent non-profit institution that focuses on research in energy economics, policy, technology, and the environment. Its research areas include global energy markets and economics, energy efficiency and productivity, energy and environmental technologies, and carbon management. It has a multi-national research team.

Vision• The architectural vision for a

center focused on technical and environmental concerns endeavors to create an organic form - a structure capable of continual expansion and transformation - rising as a cellular structure of crystalline forms from the desert landscape - a strong protective outer shell concealing soft, porous sheltered courtyards within.

Renderings

Model

Inner spaces

Prayer room

Construction status

About the Architect• Dame Zaha Mohammad

Hadid, DBE (Arabic:  حديد Zahā زهاḤadīd; born 31 October 1950) is an Iraqi-British architect. She received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004—the first woman to do so—and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Her buildings are distinctively futuristic, characterized by the "powerful, curving forms of her elongated structures" with "multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life".

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