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Arrival
A dark entrance hall and a timber slide under the welcome sign.
F&B, Corporate & Commercial
Dog Park
Location
Dubai, UAE
Type
Dog care & training centre
The idea
A playground, school and home for dogs.
A centre for dogs set inside a high industrial hall. Boarding, a training school, grooming, a treatment room and a shop share one building, each given its own zone and colour so that dogs, owners and staff move along clear routes. A dark ceiling of exposed services sits above sage-green walls and floors, with red running tracks drawn across them.
The heart of the plan is the play and training hall: timber ramps, hoops and tunnels around tunnels of black steel wire, with a red climbing wall at one end. Glazed rooms for retail and grooming look onto it, and a timber spiral slide carries dogs down from the upper level under a welcome sign.
Material palette
Sage floor & red track
Play and training hall
Steel-wire tunnels
Centre of the play hall
Timber agility ramp
Training course
Gloss red wall
Behind the training course
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Shop & Grooming
Glazed rooms looking onto the training floor.
About the project
Ramps, tunnels and a slide down
Dogs and owners arrive through the dark entrance hall, where the slide from the floor above lands beneath the sign. From there the route opens into the main hall, the largest space in the building. The shop and grooming rooms sit along its edge behind glass, so visitors can watch the training while they wait. Boarding, daycare and the other zones lie beyond, each reached along its own route.
In the main hall, a sage floor marked with a red track sets out the course for running. Tunnels of steel wire sit at its centre, open to view so staff can see the dogs inside. The timber agility ramps give a warm surface with grip for paws. Behind the course, a gloss red wall closes the end of the hall in a strong colour. The centre is in Dubai.
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