Erbil Stock Exchange

From the suggestion of the old bazaar at the foot of the thousand-year-old citadel, the concept design of a block for the new contemporary market of Iraqi Kurdistan.

During a trip to Kurdistan, the studio was commissioned to produce in a few days a project of urban concept design for a new block on the edge of the center of Erbil, able to organize and collect the necessary services for the new Erbil Stock Exchange: from offices, to business banks, to spaces with commercial destination and parking lots, as well as a structure for the exchange and trade of equities.
The urban diagram of the Qaisary bazaar was therefore the track to order the new settlement where the different functions of the program required, gravitate in a centripetal manner to the Palace of the Stock Exchange, designed as one of the great stones on which is based the ancient city of Arbil.
There are four pedestrian accesses to the raised commercial plate which, at the back of the Stock Exchange building, finds its centre of gravity where the various courses of the lot, covered by shading systems cantilevered from the multi-storey buildings for retail, converge.

There are four pedestrian accesses to the raised commercial plate which, at the back of the Stock Exchange building, finds its centre of gravity where the various courses of the lot, covered by shading systems cantilevered from the multi-storey buildings for retail, converge.