British studio Hopkins Architects has created a cluster of prefabricated concrete pods to house the Khor Kalba Turtle Wildlife Sanctuary on the eastern coast of the emirate of Sharjah in the UAE.
Built for Sharjah s Environmental Protected Areas Authority, the turtle sanctuary and visitor centre stands on the edge of the Kalba nature reserve.
Hopkins Architects aimed to design a series of interconnected structures that were sensitive to the site, which is located by the Indian Ocean alongside a lagoon and dense mangroves.
The Khor Kalba Turtle Wildlife Sanctuary stands on the edge of a nature reserve In many ways the site and the design are inseparable – the project itself is dedicated to the preservation of the site and its wildlife, said Simon Fraser, principal at Hopkins Architects.
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