City in Transformation

Re-build Mina Pilgrimage Tent City

Studio work

Supervisor: Tom Verebes

2014 Spring

The University

My design is about building a set of permanent transformable architectural system in Mina Pilgrimage “tent city” which can transform responsively to achieve multi-use for both residential and greenhouse farming.The city is over crowded in the hajj time, and totally empty in off-season time.The pilgrims used to came with their own temporary installations and doing their worship and then remove those installations at the end of Hajj season. Later on, KSA government provide tents unitively, install them before hajj season and remove them after Hajj. Recent ten years, new type of tents are invented, they have better performance in many aspects and are remaining “permanent” in Mina valley.